Background

UNDP has been present in Belarus since 1992. The organization's mandate in Belarus is determined by the Agreement between the Government of the country and UNDP of 24 September 1992, which requires UNDP to support and supplement the national efforts at solving the most important challengers of the economic development and to promote social progress and better standards of life.

The UNDP Belarus is hiring a Digital and Visual Communications Associate, who will work under the supervision and guidance of the Deputy Resident Representative. The Digital and Visual Communications Associate will lead UNDP Belarus’s digital presence and visual storytelling, managing social media, photo and video production, and project-based visibility. The role will also contribute to corporate events, campaigns, and the creation of human-interest features, ensuring that UNDP’s development results are communicated through engaging, creative, and high-impact visual content.

Duties and Responsibilities

Digital Communications and Social Media Management:

• Lead the planning, creation, and day-to-day management of UNDP Belarus social media channels, ensuring timely, strategic, and visually engaging content that strengthens UNDP’s digital presence and aligns with corporate guidelines.
• Develop and implement digital content calendars, campaign plans, and performance reports to support programme priorities, innovation activities, and advocacy efforts.
• Monitor and analyze engagement metrics to optimize audience reach, tone, and effectiveness of social media messaging.
• Coordinate with programme teams to source content, visuals, and success stories for digital dissemination.
• Ensure digital accessibility, coherence, and compliance with UNDP’s communication and branding standards.

Visual Content Production and Project Visibility:

• Plan, produce, and edit high-quality visual materials - including photos, videos, infographics, and motion graphics - to support storytelling, visibility, and donor reporting.
• Manage photo and video documentation of key missions, field visits, and project milestones, ensuring proper archiving, metadata tagging, and quality control.
• Lead the design and execution of project-level visibility initiatives in coordination with programme teams, partners, and service providers.
• Develop visual templates, banners, and branded assets for online and offline communications.
• Support the preparation of visibility packages for partners, events, and campaigns showcasing project results and human-impact stories.

Website and Digital Platforms Support:

• Support digital content development and ensure consistency across all social media platforms
• Contribute to the maintenance and regular update of UNDP Belarus’s website, ensuring engaging, up-to-date, and visually appealing content.
• Optimize web-based presentation of stories, campaigns, and photo/video galleries to enhance audience experience.
• Support implementation of corporate content management standards across all digital platforms, ensuring brand and message coherence.

Events, Campaigns, and Human-Interest Features: 

• Support development and production of talking points, blogs, press releases, op-eds, and feature stories for senior management and programme teams, ensuring alignment with UNDP’s messaging, tone, and strategic priorities.
• Support development and production of high-quality, engaging content that effectively communicates UNDP’s vision, results, and impact across projects and thematic areas.
• Support the planning and execution of corporate and thematic campaigns, ensuring strong digital visibility and creative visual coverage.
• Document and promote key events, launches, and conferences through photography, live posting, and short-form videos.
• Contribute to the creation of human-interest features and multimedia stories that highlight beneficiaries and local impact.
• Provide visual and technical support to communication and innovation events, ensuring consistent branding and professional presentation.

Assist Communications Specialist/Analyst in knowledge management and dissemination:

• Compile knowledge products from programme/projects and ensure they are properly archived. 
• Upload content on Internal database and website. 
• Work with suppliers/vendors as and when necessary.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional arrangements

The Digital and Visual Communications Associate will work under direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative. The Digital and Visual Communications Associate will work in partnership with the UNDP communication team and in close coordination with the relevant programme and project teams.  

Competencies

Core Competencies

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements. 
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible.
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination. 
   

Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies  

Business Direction and Strategy

• Strategic Thinking:
  • Develop effective strategies and prioritised plans in line with UNDP’s mission and objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, opportunities and potential risks; link the general vision to reality on the ground to create tangible targeted solutions; learn from a variety of sources to anticipate and effectively respond to both current and future trends; demonstrate foresight.
• Negotiation and Influence:
  • Reach a common understanding/agreement, persuade others, resolve points of difference through a dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable solutions and create ‘win-win’ situations.

Business Management

• Communication:
  • Communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
  • Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.
• Digital Awareness and Literacy:
  • Ability to monitor new and emerging technologies, as well as understand their usage, potential, limitations, impact, and added value. 
  • Ability to rapidly and readily adopt and use new technologies in professional activities, and to empower others to use them as needed. 
  • Knowledge of the usage of digital technologies and emerging trends.
• Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:
  • Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. 
  • Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. 
  • Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. 
  • Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Business Development

• Knowledge Generation:
  • Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. 
  • Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. 
  • Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.

Digital and Innovation

• Data Storytelling and Communications 
  • Skilled in building a narrative around a set of data and its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that data in a powerful and compelling fashion. 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Secondary education is required.
• A university degree (bachelor´s degree) in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, International Relations, Marketing or related field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years (with secondary education) or 4 years (with bachelor´s degree) of relevant experience in communications/media relations, journalism, professional content generation, marketing, photo/video production or multimedia storytelling.

Required Skills:

• Hands-on experience managing and scheduling content across major social media platforms.
• Experience in photography and video.

Desired Skills:

• Skills of professional photo, video, and graphic editing software.
• Drafting, formulation, messaging skills, experience in writing articles/blogs/analytical papers/ talking points or other communication products. 
• Good knowledge of MS Office software package and/or graphic design applications. 
• Work experience in the UN system or any other foreign/international organizations.
• Hands-on experience drafting, compiling, and preparing content for visibility packages, including presentations, brochures, digital assets, banners, and branded assets.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in Russian is required.

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination. 

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles. 

Right to select multiple candidates

UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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