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For each child, a future
How are you able to make a difference?
Scope of Work:
The Digital Advocacy and Communications consultancy can be vital in implementing and scaling UNICEF Ghana’s U-Report platform whereas supporting donor visibility by means of multimedia and social media content material manufacturing. U-Report is UNICEF’s youth engagement platform that empowers younger folks to share their voices, entry info, and mobilize for motion. U-Report Ghana will interact youth aged 13-24 by means of interactive instruments similar to polls, chatbots, and quizzes. The Consultant will oversee technique implementation, making certain that youth participation is significant and contributes to determination-making on the nationwide. This contains growing annual activations, fostering collaboration with UNICEF program sections and companions to affect coverage and programmatic selections, and aligning actions with world advocacy priorities. Safeguarding, information privateness, and moral youth participation may even be prioritized, making certain that engagement adheres to UNICEF’s child safety insurance policies and world pointers.
The Consultant will deal with advocacy, communication, and stakeholder engagement. This contains amplifying U-Report information and actions by means of UNICEF Ghana’s campaigns, producing youth-pushed content material, and strengthening visibility of the U-Report model. The consultancy additionally entails capability-constructing efforts, empowering younger folks to tackle management roles throughout the U-Report neighborhood. Use this hyperlink https://youtu.be/WrYyFzzZNn0 to have perception of the U-Report.
The Consultant will assist UNICEF Ghana’s donor visibility by means of strategic communication actions. The consultancy entails mobilizing communication assets to spotlight impactful UNICEF packages, facilitating content gathering, and producing compelling multimedia packages, together with movies, human-curiosity tales, and social media posts. The guide will collaborate carefully with nation places of work, regional groups, and headquarters divisions to make sure constant and efficient communication that helps fundraising initiatives.
Key deliverables embrace the event of donor communication supplies, sustaining the web site and digital platforms. The Consultant will coordinate with programmatic and partnership groups to assist in monitoring, planning, and executing donor content material gathering missions’ visits, and providing inputs of the Advocacy and Communication part in donor reviews. The guide will guarantee compliance with UNICEF’s communication requirements.
Work Assignment
1. Development and implementation of donor visibility plan encompassing strategic digital communication and reporting.
2. Oversee social media planning and content material creation.
3. Youth engagement and capability constructing by means of the U-Report technique implementation
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum Education Requirements:
An superior college diploma (Master’s stage) in one of many following: Communications, Marketing, Journalism, International Relations, International Development or in a associated subject.
Experience/Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
- At least two (2) years of related skilled work expertise in advocacy/ campaigning and communications (together with digital) targeted on younger folks is required.
- Experience in supporting the event and implementation of youth engagement methods, with particular, measurable and timebound goals and efficiency indicators.
- Demonstrated expertise in supporting and/or managing initiatives to completion, together with growing and implementing clear processes.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing content material for youth audiences and/or neighborhood moderation of youth targeted platforms.
- Knowledge of youngsters’s rights, public coverage, worldwide growth and humanitarian points.
- Knowledge of child safeguarding and ethics of working with kids and youth.
- Experience working for an advocacy or campaigning group e.g. nationwide or worldwide NGO, UN or different multilateral group is an asset.
- Experience in supporting coaching and facilitation is an asset.
- Experience working in a growing and emergency surroundings is an asset.
- Knowledge and expertise of U-Report platform.
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn out to be a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught extra about versatile work preparations, nicely-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 limitations, might 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 staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-associated assist necessities of candidates and staff 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 assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request by means of the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra 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.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service can be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your entire interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
National Digital Advocacy & Communications Consultant (Youth Engagement &Donor Visibility), Ghana – 12 months
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