Fixed Term appointment,Chief of Communication,(P5),Pretoria,South Africa Req # 526534,Position #92998 353 views0 applications


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, a voice

Purpose for the job:

Chief of Communication manages the section and provides strategic guidance to the three component leads: 1. Public Awareness and Advocacy; 2. Private Fundraising and Partnerships; and 3. the Volunteer programme to ensure synergy and complementarity. The dual roles of UNICEF in South Africa as both a ‘programme’ as well as a ‘fundraising’ office requires a sophisticated and multi-dimensional communication framework to carefully and properly position UNICEF’s many facets among various audiences.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

  • Communication strategy: The Country Office has a clear communication which includes; communication for development, partnerships with private sector and fundraising strategies, 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 brand.
  • Media relations: The Country Office has a well-managed country communication team that maintains and continually develops a 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. New ways are identified to increase positive exposure and leverage that prominence for new opportunities for UNICEF.
  • Networking and partnerships: The Country Office has a well-managed country communication team that maintains and continually develops a contact list of individuals, groups, organizations and fora, whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives of the communication strategy with a special focus on partnerships with private sector. Network is developed, strengthened and maintained with the UN Country Team, UN communication counterparts and high-level counterparts in key partner organizations.
  • Celebrities and special events: The Country Office has a well-managed national celebrity relations programme with a well maintained and continually developed contact list of appropriate, nationally-known personalities who have been identified, engaged and support UNICEF’s efforts and who actively participate in special events and activities that support country programme goals. Among these high-profile individuals a handful are identified whose recognition level extends beyond national borders and co-ordinate closely with DOC and the regional office in extending their impact and use beyond national borders
  • 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.
  • Resource mobilization support: Global and country level fund-raising activities are supported by effective advocacy and communication strategy and activities. The Country Office has an updated Resource Mobilization Strategy that provides the direction to build a significantly stronger funding base to enable the office to mobilise and leverage domestic, public and private resources for children in South Africa.
  • Volunteer programme: The Country Office builds a Volunteer programme that supports advocacy, brand-awareness, programme implementation and fundraising.
  • Management: The human resources (the communication team) and financial resources (budget planning, management and monitoring) for the communication section of the Country Office and are both effectively managed and optimally used.
  • A Monitoring and evaluation: Communication 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 as required Opportunities for development among the country communication team and other colleagues are identified and addressed; opportunities to build communication capacity among media and other relevant partners are identified and addressed.
  • Advisory support and communication for strategic results: Develops communication approaches and guidelines,including those most effective for gender mainstreaming across all programmes.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate:

  • Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other related fields of disciplines. (Or an undergraduate degree plus at least 14 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.)
  • Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience.
  • International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries.
  • Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, new media.
  • Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
  • Fluency in English and another UN language

V. Competencies and level of proficiency required

Core Values

  • Commitment; Diversity and Inclusion; Integrity

Core competencies

  • Communication (III); Working with People (II); Drive for Results (III)

Functional Competencies

  • Leading and Supervising (III); Formulating Strategies and Concepts (III); Analyzing (II)

Relating and Networking (III); Persuading and Influencing (III); Entrepreneurial Thinking (III)

To view our competency framework, please click here.

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit their application to the following link:

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=526534 by 14 October 2019

This notice will also appear on http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/, http://www.unicef.org/southafrica, UN Job List, UN Jobs.

We invite you to watch a short video on the system on how to apply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgDIQ9RVYs&feature=youtube

If you have not been contacted within two months of the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

Regret emails will only be sent to interviewed candidates.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from South African nationals, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education.

UNICEF has spent nearly 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Working with and for children through adolescence and into adulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produce results and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partners with leaders, thinkers and policy makers to help all children realize their rights—especially the most disadvantaged.

The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations (UN) programme headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its executive committee.

UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its first chairman from 1946. On Rajchman's suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF's mandate was extended to address the needs of children in the developing world and became a permanent part of the United Nations System. At that time, the words "international" and "emergency" were dropped from the organization's name, making it simply the United Nations Children's Fund, or popularly known as "UNICEF".

UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF's total income for 2008 was US$3,372,540,239. Governments contribute two-thirds of the organization's resources. Private groups and some six million individuals contribute the rest through national committees. It is estimated that 92 per cent of UNICEF revenue is distributed to programme services.UNICEF's programmes emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006.

Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF's mission through programmes developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed.

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0 USD Pretoria CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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, a voice

Purpose for the job:

Chief of Communication manages the section and provides strategic guidance to the three component leads: 1. Public Awareness and Advocacy; 2. Private Fundraising and Partnerships; and 3. the Volunteer programme to ensure synergy and complementarity. The dual roles of UNICEF in South Africa as both a 'programme' as well as a 'fundraising' office requires a sophisticated and multi-dimensional communication framework to carefully and properly position UNICEF's many facets among various audiences.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

  • Communication strategy: The Country Office has a clear communication which includes; communication for development, partnerships with private sector and fundraising strategies, 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 brand.
  • Media relations: The Country Office has a well-managed country communication team that maintains and continually develops a 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. New ways are identified to increase positive exposure and leverage that prominence for new opportunities for UNICEF.
  • Networking and partnerships: The Country Office has a well-managed country communication team that maintains and continually develops a contact list of individuals, groups, organizations and fora, whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives of the communication strategy with a special focus on partnerships with private sector. Network is developed, strengthened and maintained with the UN Country Team, UN communication counterparts and high-level counterparts in key partner organizations.
  • Celebrities and special events: The Country Office has a well-managed national celebrity relations programme with a well maintained and continually developed contact list of appropriate, nationally-known personalities who have been identified, engaged and support UNICEF's efforts and who actively participate in special events and activities that support country programme goals. Among these high-profile individuals a handful are identified whose recognition level extends beyond national borders and co-ordinate closely with DOC and the regional office in extending their impact and use beyond national borders
  • 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.
  • Resource mobilization support: Global and country level fund-raising activities are supported by effective advocacy and communication strategy and activities. The Country Office has an updated Resource Mobilization Strategy that provides the direction to build a significantly stronger funding base to enable the office to mobilise and leverage domestic, public and private resources for children in South Africa.
  • Volunteer programme: The Country Office builds a Volunteer programme that supports advocacy, brand-awareness, programme implementation and fundraising.
  • Management: The human resources (the communication team) and financial resources (budget planning, management and monitoring) for the communication section of the Country Office and are both effectively managed and optimally used.
  • A Monitoring and evaluation: Communication 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 as required Opportunities for development among the country communication team and other colleagues are identified and addressed; opportunities to build communication capacity among media and other relevant partners are identified and addressed.
  • Advisory support and communication for strategic results: Develops communication approaches and guidelines,including those most effective for gender mainstreaming across all programmes.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate:

  • Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other related fields of disciplines. (Or an undergraduate degree plus at least 14 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.)
  • Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience.
  • International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries.
  • Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, new media.
  • Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
  • Fluency in English and another UN language

V. Competencies and level of proficiency required

Core Values

  • Commitment; Diversity and Inclusion; Integrity

Core competencies

  • Communication (III); Working with People (II); Drive for Results (III)

Functional Competencies

  • Leading and Supervising (III); Formulating Strategies and Concepts (III); Analyzing (II)

Relating and Networking (III); Persuading and Influencing (III); Entrepreneurial Thinking (III)

To view our competency framework, please click here.

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit their application to the following link:

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=526534 by 14 October 2019

This notice will also appear on http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/, http://www.unicef.org/southafrica, UN Job List, UN Jobs.

We invite you to watch a short video on the system on how to apply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgDIQ9RVYs&feature=youtube

If you have not been contacted within two months of the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

Regret emails will only be sent to interviewed candidates.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from South African nationals, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and on any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

2019-10-15

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