This role is being established to strengthen the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit by bringing in dedicated media analysis expertise. The Junior Media Insights Consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting monitoring, tracking, and analyzing media coverage and performance data, while also contributing to broader desk research activities that support the team's insight outputs. The role suits an early-career analyst with a background in media monitoring, content analysis, or communications research.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

How can you make a difference?  

This role is being established to strengthen the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit by bringing in dedicated media analysis expertise. The Junior Media Insights Consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting monitoring, tracking, and analyzing media coverage and performance data, while also contributing to broader desk research activities that support the team's insight outputs. The role suits an early-career analyst with a background in media monitoring, content analysis, or communications research.

  1. Media Analysis and Landscape Mapping: Support the team with media analysis that informs strategic decisions on partnership development and channel prioritization. This includes conducting periodic media landscape analyses — mapping the broader media environment to surface shifts in topic prominence, emerging narratives, evolving editorial agendas, and how key themes are being covered across outlets and competitor platforms. Outputs will range from regular analysis of snapshots to deeper landscape reports, formatted for internal distribution across the AMI team, PFP division, and wider stakeholders.
  2. Desk Research Support: Assist the AMI team on an ad hoc basis with secondary research tasks — including landscape reviews, competitor scans, and audience background research — contributing to the synthesis and write-up of insight reports as workload requires.
  3. Data and Insights Organization: Maintain up-to-date insight databases, dashboards, and internal repositories (e.g., SharePoint, Teams folders, Boolean searches’ archive) to ensure research materials are easily accessible and systematically organized.
  4. Contribution to Research Projects and Insight Reports: Support end-to-end research activities, including questionnaire design, data synthesis, and the creation of final insight reports for internal distribution.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: Download File TMC0002477 ToR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

Minimum requirements:

  • Education: Master’s degree in cultural studies, communications, psychology, marketing, political studies, development studies, or a related field.
  • Work Experience:
    • Minimum of 6 months of professional experience in market research, data analysis, or audience insights (agency or client-side).
    • Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methods.
    • Experience with digital and analytics tools (e.g., Brandwatch, Talkwalker, Google Analytics).
  • Language requirement: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

•     Skills: Strong analytical and data visualization skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Tableau, or similar).

  • Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple tasks.
  • Curious and constructive attitude, with a desire to learn and grow in the craft of research and insights.

Desirables: 

  • Method neutrality is an asset [quantitative, qualitative, and secondary research]
  • Knowledge of additional UN languages is an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

Remarks:  If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

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