Applications are invited for suitable candidates in UNICEF to full fill their vacant position advertised in daily Classified Source newspaper dated 20 November, 2023.
UNICEF
Date Posted:
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20 November, 2023
Department:
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UNICEF
Category | Sector
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UNICEF
Newspaper:
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Classified Source Newspaper
Education:
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Bachelor
Total Vacancies:
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Details in attached ads
Vacancy Location:
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Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Job Type:
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Full Time
Expected Last Date:
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03 December, 2023
Vacant Positions: Communication Specialist
COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST
Currently, the UNICEFIslamabad is now looking for Communication Specialist to join their organization / team.
JOB Description: Communication Specialist
UNICEF works in some of the worlds toughest places, to reach the worlds most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, Commitment
Pakistan was the sixth country in the world to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, less than one year after it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. However, children and adolescents living in Pakistan still face acute challenges.
UNICEF supports the Government of Pakistan to accelerate progress for children, work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and help children realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of Children. This will be made through, among other things, strong partnerships with provincial authorities, teachers and health professionals, frontline workers and social mobilisers, communities and families, and of course the children and adolescents themselves.
In particular, UNICEF will work so that:
Every child survives and thrives — being in good health, immunized, protected from polio and accessing nutritious food.
Every child learns.
Every child is protected from violence and exploitation and registered at birth.
Every child lives in a safe and clean environment, with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.
To learn more about UNICEF work in Pakistan, please visit the country website www.unicef.org/pakistan and videos on YouTube and Vimeo
How can you make a difference?
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for childrens and womens rights, and support for UNICEF’s mission, priorities and programmes in the country office, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team. The role aims to strengthen UNICEFs positioning and partnerships by bringing donors closer to our work for children, helping to develop new and existing partnerships, and ultimately drive stronger results for children in Pakistan. Key strategic areas for work not limited to below but include following:
Communication strategy
Ensure that the Country Office has a clear communication strategy and associated work plan to support the country programme objectives and get childrens issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF’s mission and objectives, and enhance the organizations credibility and brand.
Partnership Communication
Ensure that the Country Office has a clear partnership communication strategy and associated work plan to support the country programme objectives and strengthen visibility and awareness of partners contributions and joint programmatic achievements.
Media relations
Ensure that the Country Office has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of journalists and media outlets covering all media print, TV, radio, web etc. and a successful process of communicating and maintaining regular contact and close collaboration with the media to communicate the story of UNICEF’s cooperation to a wider audience.
Networking and partnerships
Ensure that the Country Office has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of individuals, groups, organizations and fora (including Government, UN, and bilateral counterparts), whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives of the communication strategy.
Global priorities and campaigns
In addition to local/national campaigns, ensure that the Country Office has an effective process in place for integrating and taking action on UNICEFs global communications priorities and campaigns, both disseminating these elements in a locally-appropriate way, as well as providing/enabling coverage of the work in the country for global use.
Resource mobilization support
Ensure that global and country level fund-raising activities are supported by effective advocacy and communication strategy and activities.
Capacity building and support
Ensure that the Representative/Senior or Regional Communication Officer and the country programme team are provided with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of external relations communication as required; opportunities are identified and addressed for building communication capacity among country communication team, media and other relevant partners.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have
Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations.
(*A first University combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.)
A minimum of five years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in communication, print, broadcast, and/or new media.
International and national work experience.
Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Candidate who is interested in the position should submit their CVs (together with the required papers listed in the attached advertisements) before the closing date of 03 December, 2023. When applying for a post, applicants are obliged to clearly state the job title they are applying for. All equally qualified candidates, are given equal consideration under the UNICEF programme.
