Background
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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.
The UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2026 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and rising inequalities pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP Ghana Country Office has initiated several strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring its readiness to deliver innovative solutions aligned with the world's challenges. Some of these new initiatives include addressing climate change, implementing the Youth African Innovates (YAI) Programme, and leveraging digital tools in healthcare. Digital tools has gained increasing relevance, during the COVID-19 pandemic but has also brought forth new challenges for countries like Ghana, highlighting the need to invest in infrastructure and enhance capacity among healthcare workers.
The role of the Country Office Communications Unit is to adopt UNDP’s global communication strategy to a local context and the Country Office development priorities. Through the production of high-quality communication materials and innovative use of relevantly targeted communication channels (internal and external), the communications team works collaboratively to position UNDP as a leader in the development arena, promote visibility of UNDP program outcomes/development results, mobilize support for Sustainable Development Goals in the country, and practice delivery as one UN.
Position PurposeUnder the guidance and direct supervision of the Resident Representative (with support from Deputy Resident Representative), the Communications Analyst will implement the corporate communications strategy, as well as provide inputs to the design, management and implementation of the Country Office communications and publication strategies, which are geared to influence the development agenda, promote public and media outreach, and mobilize political and financial support for UNDP. Communication Analyst will be the partnerships focal point at the Country Office that will include coordination and tracking of all partnerships and resource mobilization efforts in the office.
The Communications Analyst will supervise and lead the communications staff of the country office and maintain a regular working relationship with the Regional Communications Adviser. The Communications Analyst should work in close collaboration with the Programme and Operations teams, staff of other UN Agencies, UNDP Communications Region and HQ staff, government officials, international and local media, subject matter experts, donors, and civil society to ensure successful implementation of UNDP’s communication strategy in the Country Office.
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
1) Develop and implement internal/external communication strategies and outreach as well as UNDP’s campaign initiatives to engage different stakeholders (i.e., government, donors, media and public):
Prepare and conduct communications needs assessments for the country office (e.g., for projects, the country programme, and corporate change initiatives); Draft and edit the country office communications and outreach strategy based on country office strategic priorities and the UNDP External Communications Action Plan; Provide communication input during the project and programme formulation stage to integrate communication needs and strategies in all aspects of UNDP development program; Maintain increased coverage and understanding of the UNDP’s work in the country or practice area through local and global media stories as guided by the UNDP External Communications Action Plan; Provide support in implementing country office digital communication strategy; Generate content for the web site and other social media platforms to ensure consistency and better outreach.2) Implement UNDP’s campaign initiatives to engage different stakeholders (i.e., government, donors, media and public) and increase awareness of UNDP’s mandate and goals:
Promote and maintain public information campaigns on UNDP activities; Collect and package information for donor review in collaboration with programme staff and supervisor to support campaign and advocacy initiatives; Organize roundtable discussions, press conferences, briefing sessions, interviews, launches to engage stakeholders; Support “One UN” agenda in line with UNDP’s Campaign and Advocacy agenda; Ensure access of journalists to subject-matter experts and UNDP spokespeople; and provide newsworthy information to the national public; Identify and develop storylines for publications, and draft substantive articles that contribute to and generate conversations on key development issues; Coordinate and manage the country office publication activities, such as content management in line with corporate guidelines; Liaison with and maintain a database of contact details for journalists. 3) Promote CO partnerships and business development: In close coordination with Programme colleagues and direct guidance of SMT, lead on partnership management in the CO including keeping a good and timely track record of all fundraising opportunities in of the office, following up on due diligence of the new partners as well as other activities related to effective management of UNDP partners in the country; Packaging and submission of programme initiatives for donor review in collaboration with programme staff and UNDP senior management; Promotion and maintenance of public information campaigns on issues including UNDP activities and Sustainable Development Goals; Promotion and dissemination of corporate advocacy materials for launching flagship initiatives and publications such as the Human Development Report as well as any other reports; Maintenance of increased coverage and understanding of the UNDP’s work in the country or practice area through local and global media stories as guided by the UNDP External Communications Action Plan, provision of newsworthy information to national public and, where possible, donors; Ensure access to journalists to subject-matter experts and UNDP spokespeople; Drafting/production of regular updates to donors; Preparation of donor reports, civic education and community awareness where appropriate to support projects; Effective responses to inquiries for public information materials. 4) Facilitate effort of country office’s knowledge management and dissemination: Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme country goals and activities; Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice including corporate communications repositories; Provide training, consultancy, and advice to UNDP staff on internal and external knowledge management; Maintain UNDP’s Intranet on country office activities for internal knowledge sharing; and share relevant knowledge products with external stakeholders through corporate website; Work with the Programme teams to ensure all knowledge products are captured, updated, readily available and in the right order, as and when necessary. The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization. Competencies Core competencies Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work. Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking. Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning. Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process. Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously. Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build and/or /maintain coalitions/partnership. Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.Functional/Technical competencies
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.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: Portfolio Management
Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; Ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment.Communications
Digital Asset Management: Ability to use digital asset management (DAM) systems to effectively store, share and organize digital assets such as images, videos and other media.Communications
Multimedia Writing/Editing: Ability to create and/or edit written content for multimedia.Communications
Social Media Management: Ability to represent and promote the UNDP brand in virtual communities and networks.Communications
Writing and Editing: Ability to create and/or edit written content in different UN languages. Required Skills and ExperienceNote: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
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