National Communication and Partnership Specialist

Background

Over the last 20 years, Cambodia has attained impressive economic growth. With an average GDP growth of 7 per cent, Cambodia has been among the fastest growing economies in Asia. These economic changes have brought significant economic benefits to the Cambodian nation and people, increasing national revenues and providing employment opportunities for many Cambodians. 

Moving forward, Cambodia now faces a new set of developmental challenges, which relate to sustaining its economic growth in a manner that fully integrates Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among them, a range of environmental challenges are becoming increasingly important, including:

1. Degradation of natural resources;

2. Growing volume of waste; and

3. Limited access to affordable, sustainable and clean energy among the poor.

The overall objective of the project “building an enabling environment for sustainable development in Cambodia” is to enable Cambodia to attain the Sustainable Development Goals related to 1) natural resources management (NRM), 2) circular economy and 3) clean, affordable and sustainable energy.

To achieve this overall objective, the project designs and implements innovative environmentally sustainable models in the targeted areas through public and private partnerships. Based on the demonstrated results, the project further identifies venues for scaling-up workable models by linking initiatives to existing and future UNDP programmes as well as bankable projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the LTA, the National Communication Specialist is to provide technical support mainly for the project. Additional communication support may be requested to support communication activities under the UNDP Communication Team.

The consultant is expected to perform the main task of the following:

• Formulation of communication and partnership strategies:

  • Develop concrete communication and partnership strategies/approaches /roadmaps for priority areas

  • Facilitate due diligence (if necessary)

• Organization of workshops/events/campaigns:

  • Develop communication and stakeholder engagement strategies for events/ campaigns

  • Develop multimedia communication materials for workshops/events/campaigns including producing speeches, media advisory, press release, social media content (content includes messages, infographics, photographics and short videos)

• Development of strategic communication and media products:

  • Conduct interviews with project stakeholders in Phnom Penh and provinces

  • Develop outreach communication materials including brochures, pagers, project briefs, booklets, presentation, infographics, reports etc.

  • Develop opinion pieces (op-eds), human stories, blog posts, and short videos

  • Develop pieces of content for websites [rather than the blog posts and stories]

Interested offeror must  read  the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=58611 for more  detail information about term  of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

.Functional Competencies:

• Excellent writing, and communication skills along with high-level skills in Adobe Creative and online graphic design apps and in website design/editing/management (to be assessed by a sample)

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability; Treats all people fairly without favoritism;

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Master degree is preferable) in journalism, communication and media studies, or a related field

Experience:

• A minimum of 05 years of professional experience in media, communications, advocacy;

• Prior experiences in development of strategic communication and outreach materials (e.g.  speeches, op-eds, blogs, newspaper articles, interviews, stories), conducting events and campaigns.

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in written and oral English and Khmer

Interested offeror must  read  the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=58611 for more  detail information about term  of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on­line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e­mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Important Notice: No submission of P-11 form and Financial proposal will be disqualified from evaluation.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email pheara.lek@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org.  While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.