Communication Officer With Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project (ECRP)
Sanaa
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Sanaa
- Grade: Consultancy - SB-4 (SC8/SC9), Service Contract, Local Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Medical Practitioners
- Crisis Prevention and Recovery
- Communication and Public Information
- Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
- Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Crisis Response
- Project and Programme Management
- Closing Date: Closed
Background
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide a substantive contribution to the project and capacity building for the partners:
- Contribute to project planning and implementation
- Develop an annual communication work plan respective of the Project activities implementation plan and Communication and Visibility Plan and ensure its timely implementation.
- Constantly assess the validity and need of updating the Communication Strategy in order to fully support all outputs of the Project.
- Liaise as needed with other Communications focal points within UNDP as needed.
- Develop the ECRP branding (logo, promotional materials, signboards etc.) and ensure their correct and systematic use in the target areas of the project and for all communication, visibility and advocacy activities.
- Provide support to the project partners in planning and implementing advocacy and communication actions and ensure that work-flow, branding and products are aligned with the overall project communication and visibility strategy.
- Liaise with implementing partners and develop a calendar of monthly events for the planning and support communication activities.
- Organize media events, including press conferences, journalists field visits, press kits, regular radio and TV interviews on lessons learnt and major achievements of the project to be aired nationally and internationally.
- Prepare and organize awareness programmes and public messages to be aired on local radio channels, television and newspaper.
- Promote ECRP actions and activities and ensure visibility of the Programme and information updates at national, regional and international levels by preparing and managing content published on social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.) and publishing regular press releases in English and Arabic.
- Produce Human interest stories focusing on interventions and strategies that bring about real changes in the lives of the beneficiaries, with special interest to marginalized groups and women beneficiaries, and that could be replicated by donors and partners. (E.g. Support communication of success stories where women’s engagement in self or wage employment activities positively contributed to income generation at household or community levels.)
- Collaborate with professional photographers and implementing partners for the collection of professional high quality photos of the project activities to be used for ECRP communication and visibility materials.
- Draft speeches, notes, develop briefs, OP- Eds and other PR materials for the project and project partners for advocacy, visibility actions and awareness-raising campaigns.
- Develop and organize publication activities, communication materials, flyers, newsletters, information briefs, posters, handbooks, case studies, social impact studies and thematic studies aimed at empowering stakeholders and enhancing visibility of the Project outcomes.
- Ensure strong and continuous relations/contacts with journalists and media in Yemen and regularly monitor the coverage of the Programme in the regional and local media (print, electronic, video, social media).
- Work closely with other project staff to ensure strong linkages with the partners and media.
- Provide direct technical knowledge and expertise that is necessary for the implementation of assigned project activities.
- Support the project partners in planning and implementing advocacy and communication actions
- Develop campaign and outreach activities, as requested by Project Manager, according to the needs of the Project and its beneficiaries.
- Support communication of success stories where women’s engagement in self or wage employment activities positively contributed to income generation at household or community levels.
2.Contribute to project planning and implementation
- Analysis of requirements and synthesis for elaboration of the Project communications and outreach strategy.
- Provides support to the planning and design of internal and external strategies for communications and outreach,
- Support in developing the implementation strategies and communication campaigns for the Project through public awareness campaigns which will aid in project implementation.
- Contribute to the preparation of the project work plans, in particular focusing on communication aspects in collaboration with project team and partners.
- Coordinate and cooperate with different project partners for implementation of project activities, focusing on communication aspects.
- Support the project manager to prepare reports regularly on activities, outputs and outcomes as per UNDP rules and regulations and ensure that gender dimensions are highlighted in all products.
- Advise the Project Manager on communications issues.
- Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
- Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;
- Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production;
- Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;
- Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;
- Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.
Competencies
- Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully.
- Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others.
- Level 4: Models independent thinking and action.
- Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis.
- Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services
Client orientation :Considers all those to whom services are provided to be “clients” and seeks to see things from clients’ point of view
- Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services
Required Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, International relations or political sciences.
- Or Bacelor degree with two (2) addational years of relevant working experience maybe accepted in lieu of the master degree.
- Minimum of four (4) years of relevant experience in administration or programme support services specifically focusing on media outreach work, media relations, advocacy, communications, coordination with various stakeholders and communication strategy creation and implementation or (6) years of relevant expereince for holders of bachelor degree.
- Experience in handling of web-based management systems .
- Ability to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool and resource, experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel), and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages; experience in handling web-based management systems;
- Working experience in communications with the United Nations system, particularly with UNDP in emergency and recovery programmes , is highly desirable.
- Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and oral
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