Communication Manager, P4, FTA, Office of Innovations, Stockholm, Sweden (#00117607)

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, hope

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs. The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early stage solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and finetuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, knowhow and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

How can you make a difference?

1. Communication strategy: The Office of Innovation (OOI) has a clear and dynamic communication strategy and associated work plan to advocate for innovation as a key driver for children’s and women’s rights. The strategy and subsequent work plans creatively target audiences internally and externally with powerful and engaging story telling to enhance the organization’s credibility and brand including various public domains to strengthen awareness, political will and partnerships in support of UNICEF’s mission and objectives. The strategy and subsequent workplans are designed with internal and external inputs to ensure creativity and alignment; driven by a strong ambition of brand building leading to UNICEF being perceived as the most innovative not-for-profit organization globally.
2. Management: The human resources of the communication team are effectively managed, inspired and supported as our most valuable resource to give the best opportunity for every child. Effective and efficient management of financial resources including budget planning, management and monitoring are prioritized for optimal impact.  Strong team player as part of the broader Partnership team and overall OOI.
3. Networking and partnerships: The OOI has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of internal and external individuals, groups, and fora whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives. Effective working relationships with UNICEF, broader UN, and other key external communication counterparts (especially within the innovation ecosystem), toward creation of global moments/events/processes that would underpin and support the ambition in the Communication strategy.
4. Media relations: The OOI has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of journalists and media outlets covering all media – print, TV, radio, web, photo etc. – and a successful process of communicating and maintaining regular contact and close collaboration with the media to communicate the story of the advocacy and communication objectives.
5. Influencers and special events: The OOI has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of appropriate influencers who have been identified, engaged and support the advocacy and communication ambition and objectives. The OOI has an annual list of special events, as participants or coordinators, where key advocacy and communication objectives are optimally achieved.
6. Aligning global priorities and campaigns: OOI has an effective process in place for influencing, integrating and taking action on UNICEF’s global communications priorities, campaigns and partnerships.
7. Partnership and resource mobilization support; New and existing partnership management with both public and private sector are supported by an effective and creative advocacy and communication strategy and activities.
8. Monitoring and evaluation: Robust baselines are established against which the achievement of objectives of the communication strategy are regularly analyzed to continuously improve and adapt real-time the effectiveness of the communication strategy and activities.
9. Capacity building and support: The OOI and broader UNICEF teams (e.g., communication specialists in other business units) are provided with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of advocacy and communication as required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations. (A first University Degree combined with a total of 10 years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.)

Work experience: Eight (8) years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in communication, advocacy, print, broadcast, and/or new media, especially demonstrating creative and ambitious brand building, and powerful and engaging story telling for internal and external audiences.

International work experience, experience with public and private sector, expertise in international development and humanitarian response, and/or the innovation ecosystem strong assets.

Language proficiency: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (3)
• Works Collaboratively with others (3)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (3)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (3)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (3)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (3)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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 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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.