Job Opening ID: 19629
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Full/Part time: Full Time
Vacancy Type: Individual Consultancy
Rotational/Non Rotational: Non-rotational
Duration: 11 months 
Education & Work Experience: Master's Degree with at least 3 years of experience.
Deadline: 29 July 2024 by 5:30 PM NPT

Job Purpose:
The Communications Consultant at UNFPA Nepal will play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing the organization's corporate image and branding across various online platforms, including social media and the corporate website. The consultant will be responsible for creating, updating, and packaging high-quality content to promote UNFPA's results and priorities. This includes coordinating with creative professionals for audiovisual products, collaborating with media partners to expand reach, and producing compelling news content and human-interest stories. Additionally, the consultant will support the production of high-quality merchandise, ensure visibility at events, and provide strategic advice to improve communication efforts.

You would be responsible for:

•  Manage UNFPA Nepal’s corporate image and branding in online spaces including regularly creating and updating content on social media channels and managing the corporate website to communicate high quality image, text and audiovisual messages.
• Contribute and where required lead on the creation and packaging of content to promote the results and priorities of UNFPA including where necessary coordinating with the creative community to produce creative inputs, audio-visual products, photography and design.
• Coordinate with the online and media community to strengthen existing and new partnerships to amplify the reach of UNFPA communications in innovative ways drawing on opportunities including social influencers and agenda setters.
• Identify and produce news content and human-interest success stories that showcase the achievements of UNFPA. Traveling to the field, conducting interviews and transcribing beneficiary interviews from Nepali to English will be required.
• Support the country office and programmes to produce high quality merchandise in line with UNFPA’s quality standards and corporate image guidelines by coordinating with suppliers and ensuring appropriate quality standards in products.
• Coordinate and ensure visibility of UNFPA and relevant donors at events organized by UNFPA and partners and ensure these are well documented in text and photography for use on UNFPA’s communications platforms.
• Support field offices and provide quality control of corporate communications across media platforms and provide advice to the country and provincial officers on improving the communication strategy.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education: Advanced Degree in the field of Media/Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or relevant discipline.

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in media/communications, journalism, public relations, political science or development work in a relevant discipline;
• Knowledge and practical experience in development communication;
• Working experience in working with Media;
• Excellent writing skills, with experience writing reports, newsletters, and programme updates;
• Excellent understanding of web production, social media, and multimedia tools;
• Intimate knowledge and ease of navigation of traditional and new digital and social media;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Demonstrated team player in an international team environment;
• Prior experience in the multilateral system is an asset but is not mandatory.

Note: For further details please refer attached TOR.

Disclaimer
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How to apply
Full job description of the position can be accessed via link UNFPA External Career Site and only online applications using this link will be accepted.

Notice: There is no application, processing, or other fee at any stage of the application process. UNFPA does not solicit or screen for information in respect of HIV or AIDS and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, embracing diversity in all its forms, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. We are committed to maintaining our balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities for all, including people from minority groups, persons with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ communities.

UNFPA has a zero-tolerance against Sexual exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment (SH). Everyone is responsible for preventing sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), and all UN personnel must adhere to the standards of conduct that preserves PSEA principles (both during work hours and outside work hours). All selected candidates will, therefore, go through a safe hiring process.

The UN is committed to ensuring inclusive and accessible participation for all, including in written tests/interviews. Please let us know, should you need reasonable accommodation for the interview/written test and we will make sure to arrange accordingly. 

*Reasonable accommodation means necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 2).