Communications Officer

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY UKRAINIAN NATIONALS OR THOSE WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND WORK IN UKRAINE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS POSITION.
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps the United Nations (UN) and its partners provide peace and security, humanitarian, and development solutions. UNOPS services cover infrastructure, project management, procurement, financial management and human resources.

UNOPS mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

UNOPS vision is a world where people can live full lives supported by appropriate, sustainable and resilient infrastructure and by the efficient, transparent use of public resources in procurement and project management.

In response to the request of the Government of Ukraine, UNOPS opened an office in Ukraine in 2017, which provides a broad spectrum of services to the Government and the people of Ukraine. The portfolio includes projects in the areas of rule of law, crisis recovery, good governance, human resources management, procurement, and logistics.

Under the supervision of the Head of Programme Management Office (PMO), with day to day coordination with other communications officers and Office/projects’  personnel, the Communications Officer will be responsible for efficient and effective management of communications activities. He/she will contribute to the  design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of communication actions and materials, while ensuring full compliance with UNOPS and different donors visibility requirements and guidelines. This will lead to raising awareness of target audiences about UNOPS, its projects’ results and impacts.

The Communications Officer will undertake the following activities:

Stakeholder management: 

• Establish and cultivate relationships with the counterparts in the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), donors, Government ministries and bodies, local self-governments, development organisations and programmes

• Establish and cultivate partnerships with the key national, regional and local media

• Collate and develop reports and presentation about UNOPS/its activities  for the key stakeholders

Delivery and performance:

• Conduct periodical mapping and document UNOPS stakeholders

• Prepare briefing materials, reports, analysis of political, socio and economic trends relevant for UNOPS Ukraine

• Prepare materials for business development activities pursued by the Office, customising to specific stakeholder needs and interests

• Ensure and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the Communication Strategies and the Internal and External Communications Plans 

• Conduct activities related to the visibility and publicity of UNOPS Ukraine

• Support the organisation of the officials visits, press conferences and public events

• Lead and supervise organisation of internal Office events as directed 

• Provide communication support for organisation of trainings and workshops

• Cooperate with media and provide information on UNOPS activities

• Maintain the media contact database and the library of UNOPS Ukraine media coverage

• Ensure monthly qualitative and quantitative analysis of UNOPS media coverage 

• Contribute to the updates of  UNOPS website and social network accounts;  ensure that they are systematically updated and maintained

• Liaise with and supervise the graphic designers’ work on visibility/promotional material 

• Draft Terms of Reference for communications consultants 

• With the guidance of the Procurement Officer, support preparation of  tenders for the publicity material (including print, graphics, web, audio and video)

• Ensure gender equality and diversity principles and practices are incorporated into the communications products, in accordance with the UNOPS objectives 

Procedures:

• Ensure respect of project management, procurement and communications requirements/procedures

• Ensure efficient and effective management of the communications budget and compliance with UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations (FRR)

• Contribute to identification and assessment of risks and implement mitigation measures in accordance with the UNOPS Ukraine Risk Management Approach  

• Contribute to planning activities and timely delivery of approved work, procurement, and financial plans for the communications activities 

• Provide accurate and high quality inputs to reports 

• Provide accurate and quality inputs needed for monitoring of the projects’ performance, outputs and benefits 

Knowledge management:

• Participate in the UNOPS’ communities/contribute to the knowledge management and sharing in Currents

• Contribute to identification and sharing of lessons learned and the best practices

Personnel management:

• Supervise external consultants

The Communications Officer may be asked to lead or assist with other activities in the Office as required.

1. Contract type Individual Contractor Agreement
2. Contract level: Local Specialist Level 8
3. Contract duration: Ongoing ICA – Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

APPLICANTS MUST INCLUDE A CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) AND ONE PAGE LETTER OF MOTIVATION. 

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.