UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to avoid wasting kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood via adolescence.
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For each child, A Future
The Czech Republic hosts the best variety of refugees from Ukraine per capita in the European Union (EU). Since the onset of the refugee disaster, the Czech Republic welcomed over half 1,000,000 Ukrainian refugees. Based on the re-registration over 380,000 refugees stay in the nation, out of which 26 per cent are kids and 43 per cent ladies. The registration knowledge present that on common 7,000 new Ukrainian refugees enter Czech Republic each month, together with round 30 – 50 minors getting into the nation unaccompanied or separated.
UNICEF companions with the Government and different stakeholders to handle the wants of refugee kids and households in a complete method, whereas additionally supporting the wants of susceptible teams from the host inhabitants and fostering social cohesion. At the nationwide degree, UNICEF established workplans with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of the Interior. Through a variety of partnerships with the Civil Society Organisations, UNICEF additionally helps the growth of outreach and provision of fundamental companies to essentially the most susceptible refugee kids and their households.
To amplify our influence, UNICEF seeks to boost communication methods and advocacy efforts, making certain simpler support for beneficiaries and companions. This place goals to strengthen the communication and advocacy efforts of the UNICEF Refugee Response Office by organizing key occasions, producing multimedia content material, and supporting a spread of communication initiatives.
The chosen candidate will help in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an advocacy and communication technique to get kids’s and ladies’s points into the general public area, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF’s mission and targets in the Refugee Response Office (RRO), and improve the group’s credibility and model. The operation of the Refugee Response Office in the Czech Republic is deliberate till the tip of 2025, subsequently the place will concentrate on speaking the outcomes achieved with the federal government and the sustainability measures put in place. In addition, the Communication Officer will support communication actions of EU DG Reform-supported cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on early childhood growth and care and child safety and household companies laws.
How are you able to make a difference?
1. Communication technique: The manufacturing of communication merchandise and supplies are well timed executed and adopted as much as support RRO communication technique, regional and international campaigns and priorities, and to support useful resource mobilization as set out in the work plan.
2. Media relations: Effective and well timed skilled help and support are supplied in growing, drafting and sustaining contact info, supplies and relationships with journalists and media shops overlaying all media – print, TV, radio, internet and many others. – in the RRO, to speak the story of UNICEF’s cooperation to a wider viewers.
3. Monitoring and analysis: Regular monitoring and analysis actions are undertaken in line with the work plan to make sure most influence and steady enchancment of RRO communication efforts. Results and stories are ready and shared on a well timed foundation.
4. Partners and particular occasions: The RRO’s contact record of people, teams, organizations and fora (together with Government, UN, and bilateral counterparts), is maintained and additional developed, whose support is crucial to/can help in attaining the advocacy and communication targets and who support and are capable of actively take part in particular occasions and actions that additional the nation programme targets.
If you wish to know extra about this place, please evaluate the whole Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: University diploma in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or a associated subject.
- Work Experience: At least [2] years of related work expertise in communication, print and broadcast media, or interactive digital media.
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Field work expertise (for NO)
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Proven expertise working in politically delicate environments, notably in higher-center-revenue nations
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Strong understanding of the political, social, and financial dynamics throughout the EU and/or Czech Republic
- Language Requirements: Fluency in each Czech and English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to develop into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF gives paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, effectively-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have lengthy-time period bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied boundaries, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-associated support necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility support in finishing the net application, please submit your request via the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice might be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing charge at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the publish in the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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