فرص عمل: برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي يُعلِن عن حاجته لأخصائي في الاتصالات (Communication Specialist)

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آخر مهلة للتقديم: 2023-08-10

المنطقة / البلد: بيروت – لبنان

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

As the United Nations' lead agency for international development, UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality in 170 countries and territories. UNDP assists countries in developing policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capacities, and resilience to achieve the SDGs. Our efforts are focused on three areas: sustainable development, democratic governance and peacebuilding, and climate and disaster resilience.

UNDP Lebanon focuses on four areas of development: social and local development, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, democratic governance and institutional development, and environmental governance. It has several projects in various parts of the country within its focus areas, and most projects have a dedicated communications team focused on project-oriented communications activities. The communications team is made up of 18 people who work on various projects.

As part of its efforts to upscale its communications and visibility work in a rapidly changing environment in Lebanon, Management intends to consolidate the communications team and has developed a communications strategy.

Duties and Responsibilities

Senior management of UNDP Lebanon intends to consolidate the communications team as part of its efforts to ramp up its communications and visibility work both in terms of content and quality. As part of these efforts, the management has finalized the communications strategy and needs to implement the strategy. The CO needs a senior level (Specialist) as the team's leader. The selected specialist will report directly to the Resident Representative, who will oversee the overall work of the communications team. The Specialist shall provide strategic communications in the following areas:

Strategic Advocacy and Policy: Put together an advocacy strategy with clear priorities that have a strong link to key programme areas in the country office. These priorities will be based on the new country programme document. The strategy will also propose an action plan with external communications activities to support the advocacy priorities for the country office. A critical product of this strategy is having better communication-systems and flows between all communication officers in the different UNDP projects and help provide expertise and leadership on communications methodology and vision. Prepare quality speeches, Pres releases.

Communication toolkit: Supervise the production of a basic tool-kit for communication including: creative information products, key messages, media monitoring tools, Q&As, fact sheets, talking points with the aim of improving better awareness of UNDP’s leading role and reputation in improving the situation of the most marginalized in Lebanon.

Harmonizing Digital: Propose the basis of all social media products by utilizing stocks of multi-media material (existing and fresh). This digital strategy will be targeting the reinforcement and increase presence of UNDP’s work in Lebanon and expand the potential circle of audiences.

Donor Visibility: Come up with an action plan to increase donor visibility and meet their requirements inside and outside Lebanon. Through a thorough and comprehensive mapping, the action plan will include information on all major donors to the country programme and their visibility requirements.

Resource Mobilization Support: In close collaboration with the Resident Representative, the Deputy Representative and Communication Specialist, contribute to support effective advocacy and communication strategy and activities for global and country level fund-raising activities.

Capacity Building and Support: In collaboration with the Communication Specialist and different communication officers, provide the Resident Representative and the country programme team with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of external relations communication as required. This includes coaching support to empower senior staff to better manage media relationships.

Institutional Arrangement

The Communication Specialist will work under the direct supervision of the Resident Representative and in close cooperation with the Deputy Representative.

Competencies

Core
Achieve Results:	LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
Think Innovatively:	LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
Learn Continuously:	LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
Adapt with Agility:	LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
Act with Determination:	LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
Engage and Partner:	LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
Enable Diversity and Inclusion:	LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area	Name	Definition
Communications	Advocacy strategy and implementation	Ability to create and implement advocacy strategies which lead to impactful change
Communications	Brand & quality management	Ability to position a UNDP brand and uphold it to a high level of quality
Communications	Campaign management	Ability to produce and implement communications and advocacy campaigns which lead to impactful change
General (across the functions)	Public relations	Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organisation, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public
Business Management	Communication	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
Business Management	Resource Mangement	Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical way in line with principles of accountability and integrity
Business Direction & Strategy	System Thinking	Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education requirements	Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Mass Communications, International Relations, or Social Sciences, or other related field is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Mass Communications, International Relations, or Social Sciences, or other related field, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Min. years of relevant work experience	Minimum 7 years with Master’s degree or 9 years with a Bachelor’s degree of progressive experience in Mass Communications, International Relations, or Social Sciences, or other related field.
Required skills	Requires a high level of strategic and conceptual advisory communications knowledge and understanding of the developing world and the UN in particular; Requires the management of different roles and responsibilities and the flexibility to adjust, adapt and change priorities using sound judgment and informed discretion with government counterparts; Requires the ability to understand UNDP corporate priorities and reputational risks through a solid knowledge of the context in which the organization is operating; Requires to work outside regular office hours when needed; Leading the planning, management, and implementation of communications by ensuring effective coordination and liaison with government institutions.
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section	More than 10 years experience as a spokesperson or public relations officer/strategic communications in Lebanon and elsewhere will be a strong asset; Proven experience in organizing high-level conferences and responding to media queries is an asset; French is an asset; Solid experience in the communication field of the United Nations System. Project Management certification is an advantage.
Required Language(s)	Proven skills in writing and editing-both in English and Arabic.

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فرص عمل: برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي يُعلِن عن حاجته لأخصائي في الاتصالات (Communication Specialist)