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Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist

Manila, Philippines

Job Info

Job Identification 22867

• Posting Date 12/13/2024, 09:11 AM
• Apply Before 12/28/2024, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Manila, Philippines
• Agency UNDP
• Grade NPSA-10
• Vacancy Type National Personnel Service Agreement
• Practice Area Nature, Climate and Energy
• Bureau Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
• Contract Duration 1 Year
• Education & Work Experience Master’s Degree – 5 yr(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 7 yr(s) expertise
• Required Languages English and Filipino
• Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core ideas at UNDP: we worth range as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a approach of making certain all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘go away nobody behind’ strategy to our range efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who determine as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring tales.

UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any sort of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks.

UNDP has been working with nationwide and worldwide companions within the Philippines on the difficulty of the round economic system. UNDP is working with the European Union in implementing the EU Philippines Green Economy Programme (The Programme). The Programme has the aim of supporting the Philippines’ transition in the direction of a inexperienced economic system, together with round economic system, lowering waste and plastic, in addition to growing vitality effectivity and renewable vitality deployment to help local weather change mitigation. The Programme acknowledges that the transition to round economic system could have different added advantages reminiscent of discount of the usage of vitality and greenhouse gasoline emissions, enhance biodiversity and pure capital, decreased air pollution ranges, and local weather change adaptation. The Programme addresses three primary ranges:

Establishing a Policy Dialogue Platform on the central authorities stage to mobilize EU experience to facilitate coverage formulation, enhance city-to-city collaboration by means of supporting the event of a National Circular Economy Strategy and Roadmap, lengthen the dialogue to advertise renewable vitality/vitality effectivity, and to apply the dialogue’s outcomes.

• Working with native authorities models (LGUs) the place EU experience will help to outline and implement round economic system, local weather change, and vitality insurance policies with a human rights and gender-responsive perspective, outreach and help of native enterprise and civil society, and help much less superior LGUs.
• Enhancing engagement of the personal and monetary sectors into the round waste economic system creating higher situations for personal sector funding by supporting business-driven waste discount methods and round options within the manufacturing course of.

The Programme has 4 particular goals:

SO1: Improved round economic system and local weather change insurance policies and diminished GHG emissions

• SO2: Enhanced practices of the round economic system by the LGUs in collaboration with the personal sector and civil society sector, with a give attention to youth and gender equality
• SO3: Enhanced engagement of the personal and monetary sectors in round, waste-reduction economic system
• SO4: Increased vitality effectivity and renewable vitality deployment

UNDP is accountable for the implementation and execution of SO2 with the aim of enhancing the capacities and practices of native authorities models (LGUs) on round waste economic system in collaboration with personal and civil society organizations (CSOs), with give attention to youth and gender equality.

Key outcomes anticipated on the finish of the Project embody:

Reduced quantity of waste generated and despatched to landfills in associate LGUs.

• Greenhouse gasoline emissions diminished and prevented (tonnes of CO2eq) from diminished waste and implementation of round economic system initiatives.
• At least 20 LGUs have established round economic system fashions, together with introduction of supply separation and assortment techniques for wastes recycling, diversion, repurposing and different CE initiatives.
• Additional variety of organizations making use of CE and sustainable consumption and manufacturing practices in associate LGUs.
• Additional jobs (together with inexperienced jobs) created throughout the round economic system worth chain, disaggregated by gender and teams.
• At least 10 LGUs by which nationally outlined inexperienced procurement standards have been utilized.
• About 15 LGUs that feed their NDC reporting with improved gender and youth delicate knowledge on co-benefits of CE.

The above outcomes shall be achieved by means of the next Outputs:

Output 1: Improved capacities of LGUs and stakeholders to design, implement and monitor resilient and inclusive round economic system methods.

• Output 2: GEDSI-responsive native insurance policies and rules designed and utilized to allow round and inexperienced progress alternatives and practices.
• Output 3: Public and personal financing successfully mobilized to implement gender responsive and inclusive CE methods and programmes.
• Output 4: Enhanced group innovation and demonstration initiatives utilized to handle precedence CE options in associate LGUs.
• Output 5: Enhanced CE habits and practices of LGUs, personal sector, communities and native stakeholders.
• Output 6: Informal sector, grassroots, civil society organizations, ladies, youth, and marginalized sector capacitated and built-in into the CE worth chain.
• Output 7: CE-related data administration, MERL, GEDSI and safeguards in place to strengthen and replicate CE uptake within the Philippines.

The Project shall be carried out in partnership with LGUs. A complete of 20 Tier 1 LGUs shall be supported straight, whereas 40 LGUs shall be supported with focused help on a demand-driven foundation. Out of Tier 1 LGUs, 10 LGUs have been recognized:

Baguio City

• Pasig City
• Caloocan City
• Quezon City
• Iloilo metropolis/Metro Iloilo
• Ormoc City
• Del Carmen municipality/Siargao islands
• Island Garden City of Samal
• Davao City
• Puerto Princesa City/Palawan

The remaining Tier 1 cities shall be recognized throughout the first yr of implementation.

UNDP Philippines takes total accountability and accountability for the supply of the challenge outputs. It shall be accountable for managing the challenge, together with the monitoring and analysis of challenge interventions, reaching challenge outcomes, and for the efficient use of assets, in compliance with UNDP guidelines and rules, insurance policies and procedures. These embody related necessities on fiduciary, procurement, environmental and social safeguards, and different efficiency requirements.

The day-to-day implementation of the challenge shall be led by a Project Manager inside a Project Management Unit (PMU) accountable for making certain that the challenge achieves the anticipated targets to the required high quality requirements and inside the specified time and finances allocations. The Project Manager shall be supported by a Deputy Project Manager, Project Assistants, technical workers and a pool of contractors and consultants to hold out the deliverables of the challenge.

UNDP is looking for a Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist to guide the visibility, info and data administration and sharing, and coordination and communication actions of SO2: enhanced practices of the round economic system by the LGUs in collaboration with the personal sector and the civil society sector, with give attention to youth and gender equality. The Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist will work with a staff of UNDP particularly assigned to work on this programme, together with the Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, challenge staff, consultants, LGU Hub Coordinators, CO Communication staff, and different companions such because the EU, GIZ, IFC, Expertise France, LGUs, and related CSO and personal sector organizations.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist will work below the direct supervision of the Project Manager. The Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist will work carefully with the PMU, CO Communication staff and different GEPP stakeholders on communications. The Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist may also liaise with native authorities models, group teams, and civil society organizations, as relevant and related.

The Project is looking for to recruit a Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist, who shall be accountable for the next: Planning and Development of the Programme’s Communications and Outreach technique and Visibility plan

In session with UNDP staff and companions, and in step with the goals of GEPP, lead the event of the communication and outreach technique and visibility plan for the UNDP Philippines flagship challenge: GEPP-SO2.

• Undertake an everyday program communications wants evaluation together with the continual implementation of the communications technique and visibility plan.
• Develop this system’s Brand Manual, which would come with this system’s visible property, branding pointers, and templates, in coordination with different stakeholders and companions.

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• Customize inner and exterior techniques for staff and companions to systematically seize knowledge, doc and bundle info in step with the communication, visibility and UNDP and EU branding necessities.
• Leverage data platforms of the donor, nationwide authorities and LGU companions to strategically develop the outreach of programme stories and data merchandise on inexperienced economic system.
• Regularly replace and modify communication and outreach methods by means of steady consultations, ecosystem mapping, and engagement with nationwide and native companions and stakeholders.

Lead Behavioral and Advocacy Campaign

Lead the event and subsequent implementation of behavioral change campaigns on round economic system, working with completely different stakeholders and companions.

• Prepare TOR for data, attitudes and practices (KAP) baseline and KAP influence research to find out most acceptable behavioral change methods, focusing on precedence audiences on the LGUs, to affect practices and optimistic behaviors in the direction of round economic system.
• Prepare TORs for Consultants, contractors and companions to help implementation of the habits change marketing campaign.
• Review outputs and stories of consultants, contractors and companions to make sure supply in accordance with TORs, outcomes and high quality.
• Provide total recommendation to the Project Manager and Project staff to advance behavioral change in the direction of circularity amongst stakeholders with LGU companions.
• Formulate procedures, standards and programme for the administration of grants to companions to undertake behavioral change and advocacy campaigns.

Develop and implement Strategic Communication, Outreach and Visibility

Create this system model bundle, which incorporates the usual presentation deck, a program IEC supplies (one-page briefs, flyers, brochures), visibility supplies (banner templates, collaterals).

• Prepare communication supplies for dissemination to completely different audiences in coordination with the Project Manager. These embody web sites, social media content material, shows, briefing materials, up to date info leaflets, and movies and so forth.
• Lead preparation of press launch(s), social media content material, speaking factors and key messages.
• Document any key occasions and discipline missions to extend the challenge visibility.
• Lead communication of GEPP outcomes and progress together with greatest practices and classes discovered to its audiences utilizing the best instruments and channels together with social media and frequently monitor communication platforms to make sure that the most recent info is mirrored.
• Lead provision of technical help to the challenge within the improvement and implementation of standardized templates with donor taglines for reporting on occasions, workshops, coaching periods, as relevant.
• Develop success tales and present related inputs for the event of newsletters and web site articles for the challenge.
• Produce high-quality pictures, videography, and different digital media merchandise for the challenge with robust and impactful narratives, for instance, from discipline visits and occasions.
• Provide help throughout disaster communications and help the CO communications staff with responses to GEPP associated media inquiries.
• Liase carefully with the UNDP Philippines Country Office Communications Team for the publishing of challenge communications supplies on the Country Office platforms in a well timed method.
• Coordinate with the native media for press relations and visibility, particularly for high-level actions of the challenge.
• Write or/and edit speeches and public statements for the challenge workers and senior administration.
• Ensure that the logos and attribution of UNDP, DILG, DENR, EU and LGU (as acceptable) and different branding pointers of UNDP, EU and the EU-GEPP Programme are adhered to throughout all visibility supplies and data merchandise.
• Perform different associated duties as required.

Lead the hassle Knowledge Management and sharing info

Develop and preserve an efficient stakeholder engagement strategy, together with an up-to-date record of the challenge stakeholders, and preserve efficient relations with all stakeholders to encourage their help to GEPP programming actions.

• Liaise with different implementing companions, authorities businesses, and respective native authorities models and different companions to make sure a cooperative strategy in the direction of communications and that GEPP actions are mirrored within the on-line and mass media in keeping with UNDP commonplace procedures and insurance policies.
• Support the event of information merchandise on the implementation of the challenge together with the manufacturing of movies and different media.
• Work carefully with Data Management Specialist to advertise data administration and data sharing by means of sustaining the challenge communications website with easy accessibility of publications and data assets to all companions and stakeholders.
• Perform different associated duties as required.

Coordination of Communications Functions

Serve because the Project’s point of interest to, and present help to conferences together with GEPP Steering Committee, Project Board, Technical Working Group (TWG), and with donor representatives documenting discussions and disseminating finalized minutes with respective stakeholders.

• Along with well timed implementation of the KMC parts of programme actions, present KMC-relevant contributions to the submission of progress stories to donor, improvement of annual work plans and finances monitoring, challenge monitoring and analysis, help to GEPP-SO2 companions and stakeholders in any respect ranges, and different requests from the PMU.
• Support occasion planning to advertise the challenge’s messages amongst companions, stakeholders, and beneficiaries.

The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Competencies

Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable goals for a number of initiatives, have lasting influence.

• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to resolve advanced issues.
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to develop horizons, diversify experiences.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for.
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think past fast process/limitations and take motion to attain higher outcomes.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate advanced panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of numerous workforce and champion inclusivity.

People Management competencies:

UNDP People Management Competencies might be discovered within the devoted website.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: External Relations & Advocacy:

General (throughout the capabilities) Event planning and execution: Ability to plan, handle and execute of public and personal occasions to make sure that they help and amplify particular person communications and advocacy initiatives, in addition to UNDP’s total model and mandate.

General (throughout the capabilities) Public relations: Ability to construct and preserve an total optimistic public picture for the organisation, its mandate and its model, whereas making certain that particular person campaigns and different communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the general public

External Relations & Advocacy/ Communication:

Advocacy technique and implementation: Ability to create and implement advocacy methods which result in impactful change.

• Media Relations: Ability to develop media relations throughout all features of media work together with relationships with media and getting ready media supplies reminiscent of messages.
• Multimedia writing/enhancing: Ability to create and/or edit written content material for multimedia.
• Digital technique: Ability to plan the usage of assets by means of digital channels to succeed in and interact goal audiences successfully and to attain specific goals.

Business Direction and Strategy:

System Thinking: Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated components coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one ingredient can influence on different components of the system.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced college diploma (Master’s diploma or equal) in a related discipline of experience reminiscent of Communications, Journalism, Organizational Behavior, Business Administration, Social Science, or every other related discipline is required. OR

A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above, together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise shall be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Experience:

Minimum 5 (5) years (with grasp’s diploma) or seven (7) years (with bachelor’s diploma) of related skilled expertise in communications and advocacy or associated space.

• Proven expertise in main communications capabilities in initiatives funded by a global group or UN Agency is required.
• Proven expertise in main strategic and inventive communications and creating communication methods is required.
• Proven expertise in press and media coordination in addition to social media administration is required.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing and coordinating occasions.
• Proven expertise in designing and creating knowledge visualization, infographics, shows, and stories is fascinating.
• Previous expertise working with nationwide and native governmental organizations, civil society organizations and community-based teams is fascinating.
• Prior expertise with multi-partner and/or multi-million joint programmes is fascinating.

Required languages:

Fluency in English and Filipino- each written and oral is required

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