Communications and Reporting Officer

UNDP Philippines is supporting the federal government’s effort to implement the decommissioning and normalization elements of the Bangsamoro peace course of. It has designed the programme “Assistance for Security, Peace, Integration and Recovery for Advancing Human Security in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao” (ASPIRE for BARMM) to assist handle the problem of accumulating unregistered private firearms within the fingers of non-state actors and non-public armed teams throughout the conflict-affected communities in BARMM. Due to the numerous antagonistic ratio between decommissioned combatants and firearms “put beyond use,” this problem has grow to be a degree of competition between the events (i.e. Government of the Philippines and the MILF) to the peace course of. The programme consequence goals at integrating complete human safety coverage initiatives, elevating from those that seize the previous combatants’ socio-economic wants to those who promote local weather motion and catastrophe threat discount, which contributes to advancing the native implementation of SDGs amongst all of the individuals in Mindanao.

As such, UNDP is searching for to rent a Communications and Reporting Officer who will help the Peace and Stabilization Programme Team (PSPT), particularly the ASPIRE Project in BARMM. The Communications and Reporting Officer is tasked to help the Project Specialist in all of the Communications necessities of the mission, together with offering and consolidating studies relative to the implementation of mission actions whereas making certain top quality, accuracy, and consistency of labor. He/She may even lead within the roll-out of the ASPIRE Communications Plan, which primarily covers implementing IEC campaigns within the recognized pilot communities within the BARMM. The Communications and Reporting Officer is anticipated to report day by day to the Project Specialist of ASPIRE. The place holder additionally demonstrates a client-oriented strategy, tact,

and potential to work with individuals of various nationwide and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the Communications and Reporting Officer works in shut collaboration with different mission colleagues of the Peace Programme Team, in addition to with different UN Agencies, authorities officers, technical advisors and consultants, multilateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to efficiently implement the actions.
 

The Communications and Reporting Officer shall be instantly answerable for finishing the beneath set of duties inside allotted, agreed-upon time frames:

• Lead the implementation and alignment of the Communications Plan for the ASPIRE mission. Develop a complete understanding of the ASPIRE mission’s targets, audience, and key messaging; Coordinate with mission stakeholders to make sure the Communications Plan is successfully applied and aligned with mission objectives.; Monitor progress, consider effectiveness, and make changes to the Communications Plan as essential to optimize outcomes.
• Collaborate with UNDP’s companions and service suppliers to execute the ASPIRE communications technique successfully. Establish and keep robust working relationships with UNDP’s companions and service suppliers; Coordinate communication efforts to make sure consistency and alignment with the ASPIRE communications technique; Facilitate collaboration and data sharing amongst companions to maximise impression and attain of communications initiatives.
• Create communication belongings for UNDP’s Peace and Stabilization Programme Team (PSPT), donors, and companions to boost visibility in consciousness campaigns and reporting outcomes, together with drafting briefing paperwork and media supplies. Develop quite a lot of communication supplies corresponding to press releases, truth sheets, social media content material, and multimedia shows; Tailor messaging and content material to successfully talk mission achievements, challenges, and impression to various audiences; Collaborate with stakeholders to collect related data and knowledge to be used in communication belongings; Ensure all supplies adhere to branding tips and replicate the values and targets of UNDP, donors, and companions.
• Identify compelling storylines for publications and articles that help Peacebuilding, Stabilization and Small Arms and Light Weapons Management efforts. Conduct analysis and collect data to establish related and impactful tales associated to Small Arms and Light Weapons Management efforts; Work intently with the PSPT mission groups and companions to uncover compelling narratives that spotlight the significance and impression of those efforts; Develop participating and informative written content material for publications, articles, and different communication channels;
• Oversee the technical elements of translating/adapting/rewriting acquired data and printing and distributing publications and audio-visual supplies. Coordinate translation, adaptation, and rewriting of communication supplies as wanted to succeed in various audiences; Manage the manufacturing course of for print and audio-visual supplies, together with sourcing distributors, overseeing high quality management, and making certain well timed supply.; Develop distribution plans and coordinate logistics for disseminating communication supplies to focus on audiences; Monitor distribution channels and consider effectiveness to tell future distribution methods and ways.
• Prepare common progress studies, milestone updates, and ad-hoc studies as required beneath the ASPIRE mission, donors, and different stakeholders. Tailor studies to satisfy the particular wants and necessities of various stakeholders, making certain the knowledge offered is related and comprehensible.
• Maintain and set up an up-to-date repository of mission studies, paperwork, and knowledge for reference and future use of UNDP, significantly the PSPT.
• The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed essential for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
   

• Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to artistic concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements 
• Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions
• Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to vary, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile 
• Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured
• Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, kinds constructive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Partnership administration    

• CSO engagement. Knowledge and understanding of CSOs and the power to interact with CSOs

Administration & Operations    

• Events administration (together with retreats, trainings, and conferences). Ability to handle occasions, together with venue identification, lodging, logistics, catering, transportation, and money disbursements, and so forth.

Finance    

• Budget administration. Ability to help budgetary elements of labor planning course of, drawing and administration of group budgets. 

Business & Direction Strategy    

• Straregic Thinking. Develop efficient methods and prioritised plans according to UNDP’s mission and targets, primarily based on the systemic evaluation of challenges, alternatives and potential dangers; hyperlink the final imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom to create tangible focused options; study from quite a lot of sources to anticipate and successfully reply to each present and future developments; reveal foresight.

Business Management    

• Monitoring and analysis. Ability to systematically monitor outcomes of methods, programmes, and actions with a view to ensure that they’re being applied successfully; Ability to offer managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate actions and programme administration and outcomes. Ability to make impartial judgment of the administration and outcomes of methods, programmes and actions primarily based on set standards and benchmark, maintaining in thoughts the wants and issues of shopper, present and upcoming. 
  Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and analysis frameworks, ideas, methodologies, programs, processes, and instruments. Ability to make an impartial judgement primarily based on set standards and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate shopper’s upcoming wants and issues.
• Communication. Communicate in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by media, social media and different acceptable channels 
• Partnerships Management. Build and keep partnerships with vast networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and non-public sector companions, consultants and others according to UNDP technique and insurance policies.