Deadline: 4 November 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Chief of Communication, based in Pretoria, South Africa.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Chief of Communication will perform the following functions-
- External Communication, Public Advocacy and Brand Marketing: The Country Office has a clear external communication, public advocacy and brand marketing strategy and associated work plan to get children’s issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF’s mission and objectives, and enhance the organization’s credibility and position the UNICEF brand. New ways are identified to increase positive exposure and leverage that prominence for new opportunities for UNICEF.
- Resource mobilization: The Country Office has a clear integrated Resource Mobilization strategy (both leveraging resources for children and fundraising for UNICEF programmes in South Africa), with focus on the private sector fundraising and partnerships as mobilisation of resources from UNICEF ‘traditional donors’ (National Committees and bilateral donors) and promote public private partnerships to achieve results for children; support leveraging of domestic financing with the South African government as well as south-south cooperation. Partnerships and networks are built with key individuals, groups, corporations and organizations whose support is essential to assist in achieving the resource mobilization, advocacy and communication objectives.
- Communication for Development (C4D): The Country Office has a clear Communication for Development (C4D) Strategy to strengthen national capacity to plan, develop, implement and monitor evidence-based communication for development strategies to ensure positive behaviour and social change.
- Global priorities and campaigns: The Country Office has an effective process in place for integrating and taking action on UNICEF’s global communications priorities, campaigns and partnerships, disseminating these elements in a locally-appropriate way, as well as providing/enabling coverage of the work in the country for global use.
- Management: The human resources (the communication and partnerships team) and financial resources (budget planning, management and monitoring) for the communication and partnerships section of the Country Office and are both effectively managed and optimally used.
- Monitoring and evaluation: Resource mobilization, communication and brand, and C4D baselines are established against which the objectives of the communication strategy are regularly evaluated; analysis is undertaken to continuously improve the effectiveness of communication strategy, approach and activities; results and reports are prepared and shared on a timely basis.
- Capacity building and support: The Representative and the country programme team are provided with expert advice on all aspects of external relations communication and private fundraising and partnerships as required; opportunities for development among the country communication and partnerships team and other colleagues are identified and addressed; opportunities to build resource mobilization, communication and C4D capacity among media and other relevant partners are identified and addressed.
- Advisory support and communication for strategic results: Adapt and contextualise resource mobilization and communication approaches and guidelines, including those most effective for gender mainstreaming across all programmes.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other related fields of disciplines.
- Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant work experience.
- International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries.
- Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, new media.
- Background/familiarity with private sector resource mobilization and brand marketing.
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of a second UN language (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) and/or the local language of the duty station is considered an asset.
- A first level university degree plus at least 14 years of demonstrated relevant work experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through online process.
For more information, please visit UNICEF.
