Communication Officer

Job no: ‎555847
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Cairo
Level: NO-‎1
Location: Egypt
Categories: Communication
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's 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, Care.
How can you make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Digital Communication Officer, the incumbent will
assist in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an advocacy and
communication strategy to get children 's and women's issues into the public
domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF's mission and
objectives in the country, and enhance the organization's credibility and
brand. With a specific focus on social media c, the Communication Officer is
responsible for creating and disseminating content as part of the local and
global digital strategy.
Specifically, the incumbent will develop ideas for campaigns, create content
for different social media channels and coordinate in the design and
implementation phases. The candidate is also expected to update the team
members with the latest trends and innovations in the development field and
support other team members with content-related tasks upon need.
Summary of key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
* Content Creation
* Communication supportive functions
* Content innovation
* Celebrities, influencers, partners and special events
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DUTIES & TASKS
Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the
incumbent may be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory
accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and
key end-results.
‎1. Content Creation:
Creating fully-fledged social media campaigns in accordance to the Social
Media Calendar requirements and in alignment with the global and local digital
media strategy.
a) Creative theme development for local campaigns campaign and localizing
themes for global campaigns.
b) Allocating resources and appropriate content tools (photos, info graphs,
videos …etc.) that fit the campaign nature and required impact.
c) Providing enough amounts of different types of content to meet the
requirements of the Social Media and Website calendars in collaboration with
the social media team.
d) Data gathering and verification (field visits and live coverage might be
needed).
e) Developing text content of individual posts and their captions in English
and Arabic.
f) Coordinating with different content implementers (designers, videos
editors, photographers etc.) to ensure the posts' quality, timely delivery and
alignment with UNICEF digital guidelines.
g) Content clearance with the sections.
‎2. Communication supportive functions:
Provide support to the communication team through various tasks related to the
content upon necessity.
a) Produce concept notes and briefings.
b) Give inputs to other sections regarding communication-related content to
improve the output creativity and amplify impact.
c) Community management support upon need.
d) Assist in the overall performance evaluation and enhancement by working on
creating TOR, establishing indicators, doing desk reviews and other tasks as
required.
‎3. Online Communication Strategy:
Develop and implement a comprehensive social media strategy to increase our
web traffic and our brand awareness.
* Design and implement social media strategies
* Keep UNICEF's social media channels up-to-date
* Produce reports in order to measure and optimize social media marketing and brand positioning.
* Identify key social media influencers who can help amplify UNICEF's voice and interact with them on regular basis
* Explore different innovative tools for content creation and regularly updating the team with new trends and potentials to strengthen UNICEF digital media existence.
‎4. Celebrities, partners and special events: Ensuring the contact list of
individuals, groups, organizations and fora (including Government, UN, and
bilateral counterparts), are maintained and developed.
* Helping in organizing and generating public support for special events and activities to promote country programme goals.
* Maintaining, updating celebrity and partner contact lists/ database for country office.
* Monitor/document process of effectiveness of working with these individuals/ organizations.
* Preparing background communication and promotional materials for briefings and visits of media. Goodwill Ambassadors, donors, National Committee representatives and other special interest groups.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have …
* University degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
* One-year practical professional work experience in communication and digital media.
* Field work experience is required.
* Background/ familiarity with Emergency situations is an asset.
* Fluency in Arabic/ English is required.
Selection Criteria:
* Knowledge of current theories and practices in communication research planning and strategy.
* Fundamentals of working in various media formats - print, audio, video, web etc.
* Computer systems, including internet navigation, office applications, and specifically, interactive digital media.
* Good understanding of world affairs, global human rights issues, specifically relating to children and women, and current UNCEF position and approaches.
* Knowledge and expertise in management, communication strategy and networking.
* Basic or intermediate knowledge of Adobe Premiere or other editing programme.
* Experience in reporting on qualitative and quantitative analytics using management tools of social networks (Hootsuite, Tweet Deck, Later, Icon Square, Google Analytics).
* At least ‎2 years of relevant professional work experience in content management, as well as maintaining and coordinating digital and social media channels.

For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF 's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability
and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get
acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are …
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are; Demonstrates Self
Awareness and Ethical Awareness, Works Collaboratively with others, Builds and
Maintains Partnerships, Innovates and Embraces Change, Thinks and Acts
Strategically, Drive to achieve impactful results, Manages ambiguity and
complexity.
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency
framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its
different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and
encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and
ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to
become a part of the organization.
UNICEF is here to serve the world's most disadvantaged children and our global
workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is
committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age,
disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-
economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave,
breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with
disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working
arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the
aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual
exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and
discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding
of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous
reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these
standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of
academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be
required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all
children.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of
the selection process.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments are also be
subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-
CoV-‎2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with
UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up
an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of
appointment, without compensation, if medical clearance is not obtained, or
necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for
any reason.
Advertised: ‎05 Oct ‎2022 Egypt Standard Time
Deadline: ‎18 Oct ‎2022 Egypt Standard Time