Communications Associate

Jamaican Residents only.

Background

The Communications Unit of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Multi Country Office in Jamaica plays a vital role in influencing the development agenda, promoting public and media outreach and mobilizing political and financial support for UNDP. The Unit communicates the organization’s thought leadership and demonstrates the Country Programme’s impact through external communications, advocacy, and social mobilization.

Communicating UNDP's results and thought leadership is important to demonstrate organizational impact, galvanise support for UNDP's work, and demonstrate transparency. Globally, UNDP has moved resource mobilization and communications from an afterthought to a central thought in UNDP programming. This is critical for UNDP to remain a partner of choice in achieving the SDGs. UNDP regards external engagement as important for helping reach audiences who will affect policy and programmes locally regionally and globally, which in turn broadens UNDP's partnerships and mobilises more resources for development, magnifying the organization's impact.

The post will provide dedicated support to technical and administrative tasks required for successful implementation of the current Advocacy and Communications strategy of the 2022 to 2026 Country Programme. The Advocacy and Communications strategy is designed to bolster UNDP's reputation as a partner of choice for development interventions in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the western Caribbean sub region, and to raise awareness on UNDP MCO’s integrated solutions to address multi-dimensional poverty and inequality.

Duties and Responsibilities

Details of key functions

? Provide suggestions, inputs, content development and dissemination of press releases, success stories, publications, articles and sharing of CO knowledge and successes;

? Support media relations by maintaining updated records of media contacts and manage the distribution of articles and audiovisual assets to the media;

? Assist in day-to-day social media content development and management to ensure UNDP’s social media outreach is active and engaged. This will include producing and collecting high quality project photos and videos that demonstrate impactful stories of UNDP’s work; and managing effective storage of images using Flickr and other internal platforms;

? Support hiring and coordination of external designers, photographers and videographers and work with them to ensure their deliverables come with high quality and follow UNDP and partners’ branding and visibility guidelines;

? Produce communications and outreach materials such as posters, brochures, booklets, infographics,etc.;

? Assist in updating and ensuring quality control of the Country Office’s website in line with corporate branding requirements;

? Support the identification, documentation, and drafting of best practices and lessons learned for use in internal and external communications;

? Provide other communications related support as needed.

Competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business

Management

Communications

Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.

Communications

Multimedia writing/editing

• Ability to create and/or edit written content for multimedia

Multimedia production

• Ability to create and combine images, text and audiovisuals to produce multimedia content

Video production

• Ability to produce or oversee the production of highquality video and audio products

Digital asset

management

• Ability to use digital asset management

(DAM) systems to effectively store, share

and organize digital assets such as images, videos and other media.

Graphic design

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Ability to communicate visually and create appealing UNDP graphic products

Photo production

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Ability to create, edit, organize and coordinate photographic material

Business

Development

Knowledge generation

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Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education requirements

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Secondary education with specialized training in communications

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Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in media and communications, development study, international relations, business management, or a related field would be desirable, but is not a requirement

Min. years of relevant work experience

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6 years (for secondary education) or at least 3 years (for bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations, communications or advocacy.

Required skills

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Knowledge of and at least three (3) years experience with photography and videography

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At least one (1) year experience undertaking graphic design

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At least three (3) years coordinating social media campaigns and maintaining social media platforms;

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Flexibility and ability to work in different cultural setting.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

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At least two (2) years experience producing video content

At least one(1) year experience producing and/or blogs or vlogs

At least one (1) year experience writing news features and stories.

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Experience with digital marketing

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Knowledge of the UN’s procedures and communications guidelines is an asset;

Required

Language(s)

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Fluency in English (both written and oral). Knowledge of other official UN languages desirable.