Communications Assistant (Mine Actions Project)

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Mission and objectives

UNDP supports strategic capacity development initiatives to promote inclusive growth and sustainable human development. Together with national, regional and local authorities, civil societies, private sector, UNDP strives to support Ukraine in its efforts to eliminate poverty, develop people’s capacity, achieve equitable results, sustain the environment, and advance democratic governance. UNDP is in line with 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to achieve national strategic capacity development.

Context

UNDP works in more than 170 countries and territories. It is one of the leading multilateral development agencies contributing to the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequality and exclusion. In addition to supporting national processes to accelerate progress in human development, it is also noted for the leading role it plays in crisis response and early recovery. This is especially true in Ukraine, where the UNDP Resilience Building and Recovery Programme for the country seeks to support national authorities, civil society and communities through the ongoing war, modelling a humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach. Within this, UNDP Ukraine is implementing a major project to support frontline towns and areas, which were under temporary military control of the Russian Forces and are now back under Ukrainian Government control. The project has three related components aimed at supporting public safety and civil protection, facilitating safe and durable returns of IDPs and refugees, and laying the foundations for early recovery. These are: • Clearance of rubble and war debris, including explosive ordnance (EO) and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). • Mitigation and remediation of critical environmental threats such as asbestos from destroyed buildings, hospital and industrial waste, sewage and chemicals leaching into the water table or water supply, etc. • Restoration of essential utility services, including power supply, water and sanitation, communications and waste management.

Task description

• Develop and oversee the implementation of the project communications strategy and plans; • Assess the impact of the communication strategy and make adjustments accordingly; • Integrate issue-based advocacy into the communications strategy around key priority areas (mine risk education, debris and circular economy, durable solutions etc.) relevant to further resource-mobilization and strategic positioning of UNDP; • Ensure key results and relevant success stories are incorporated into strategic communications outreach; • Support communications coordination around events, campaigns or project milestones; • Draft, edit and produce a range of content across various formats, success stories, blogs, media articles, fact sheets, key messages, videos, graphics and photography; • Collaborate with other digital communication colleagues to test emerging platforms and explore new ideas in digital content creation; • Support the project management team with strategic messaging, speeches and briefs. • Contribute to preparation of project monitoring and reporting; • Work with relevant consultants, experts or external agencies for content creation and multimedia storytelling and social media use; • Support press trips in Ukraine and media outreach; • Perform other duties within your functional profile as assigned and deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the office.