Apply for Communication Specialist (Inclusive Storytelling), (P-4), TA (364 days), Post # 131524, Marketing and Public Relations services, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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For each child, a Champion 

The PFP Supporter Content workforce is trying for a inventive, skilled communications skilled who has an in-depth understanding of the lived expertise of girls and youngsters within the context of humanitarian assist and growth programmes.   

The skilled may have the data and expertise in content material creation with marginalized and affected communities. It is thru this expertise, data, and consciousness of worldwide representational tendencies, that the function will check, implement, and construct capability amongst UNICEF’s fundraising workplaces in utilizing UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework.  

Over the final 18 months, UNICEF has developed an Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework and piloted its implementation. This is an acceptable strategy to planning, gathering, and producing content material with and in regards to the individuals affected e.g., by means of collaborative or participatory manufacturing strategies and post-production.  The framework incorporates accessible viewers insights, new tendencies, and methods of storytelling in a means that may join the problems with UNICEF’s personal sector audiences in a significant means and enlist their help. UNICEF is now embarking on additional creating the Inclusive Storytelling initiative and searching for to mainstream it throughout the group, for fundraising functions and past.  

How are you able to make a difference? 

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities: 

Under the supervision of the Communications Manager of the Supporter Content Team, working carefully and matrixed managed with the Chief of Content Strategy in DGCA, whereas collaborating with the workforce members throughout UNICEF, a small reference group of stakeholders, in addition to related, nationwide committees, nation and regional workplaces and headquarters, the function will undertake the next duties: 

1. Develop an annual work plan for recurrently convening of a reference group of UNICEF stakeholders to:  

• Build capability amongst UNICEF’s fundraising workplaces (nationwide committees and nation workplaces) in utilizing UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework. 
• Build and help a neighborhood of apply and group of champions regarding UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework; 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to realize/share data concerning market testing of UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework.
• Facilitate info associated to UNICEF’s imagery steering, as wanted.  

2. Develop an annual work plan for common convening of a reference group of interagency stakeholders to: 

• Build a world neighborhood of apply regarding range, fairness, and inclusion in storytelling with inter-agency stakeholders within the growth and assist sector. 
• Facilitate info associated to UNICEF’s imagery steering, as wanted.  

3. Develop and produce content material:  

Based on UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework, the function will develop a content material manufacturing plan and facilitate the event of content material that may embody: 

• Repurposed property utilizing archive materials on UNICEF’s Digital Asset Management platform WeShare to create new property. Working with National Committees to supply fundraising content material that aligns with the Inclusive Storytelling framework. 
• Creative conceptual property utilizing graphic/ animated parts.
• Remote-produced content material by remotely working with content material creators and nation, regional workplaces to supply content material packages. 
• In-country content material manufacturing by travelling to related international locations to supply content material packages (working in collaboration with native content material creators and UNICEF workers).
• Oversee and handle the post-production of all of the content material and the place obligatory additionally do their very own post-production eg video modifying. 
• Ensuring that every one content material manufacturing and post-production meets UNICEF’s moral and technical specs and is ready with numerous variations for dissemination throughout platforms. 
• Supervise packaging and distribution and archiving of content material on WeShare for use by UNICEF throughout fundraising and communications platforms. 

4. Advise and help the event and implementation of capacity-building workshops and occasions for UNICEF National Committees, HQ divisions, Regional Offices and Country Offices in Inclusive Storytelling.  

5. Develop a suggestion, documenting the teachings learnt from the expertise and doc any refinements and testing outcomes shared by nationwide committees who used the content material throughout the interval. This information can embody sensible application of the strategy which can be utilized in future content material manufacturing by notably fundraising markets, nation workplaces, and in capability constructing endevours. 

Deliverables: 

• Established core group of stakeholders throughout the ecosystem to advance the work associated to inclusive storytelling. 
• Established neighborhood of apply associated to UNICEF’s Inclusive Storytelling Narrative Framework to help capability constructing amongst UNICEF’s fundraising workplaces. 
• Capacity constructing workshops and occasions for UNICEF National Committees, HQ divisions, Regional Offices and Country Offices in Inclusive Storytelling. 
• Relevant content material designed, developed and produced aligned to the established framework.
• Guidelines produced to help stakeholders to successfully align to the framework.  

Estimated period of the contract: 

• 364 days 

Reporting to: 

• The Communications Manager – Supporter Content. Supporter Content Team in UNICEF, PFP Geneva. 

Working Place: 

• Geneva, Switzerland is the official obligation station. (Flexible work preparations could also be utilized if there’s a want) 

To qualify as a champion for each child you should have… 

Education:  

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Marketing, Communications, the humanities, journalism, broadcast, or one other related discipline. 
• Alternatively, a first-level University Degree in a related discipline mixed with (2) further years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma. 

• A minimal of eight years of related skilled expertise is required in communications, content material manufacturing, media growth, and/or child rights programming or growth.
• Experience in inventive route and manufacturing is required. 
• Experience working with content material creators/contributors utilizing collaborative and participatory approaches is an asset. 
• Experience in animation and graphic design is an asset. 
• Experience in undertaking administration is required. 
• Experience in working with inventive groups or businesses and a sound understanding of the inventive course of is an asset. 
• Experience within the NGO sector and/or UN is an asset. 
• Experience working carefully with girls and youngsters in communities affected by humanitarian responses and/or growth contexts is required. 
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is an asset. 

Language Requirements:  

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.  

For each Child, you exhibit… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values 

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are… 

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1) 
• Works Collaboratively with others (1) 
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)  
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1) 
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1) 
• Drives to realize impactful outcomes (1) 
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges. 

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