Communications Specialist

Position description

Under the direct supervision of North Africa Director, the Communication Specialist will perform the following duties and responsibilities:

Communication:

• In close communication with the Regional Office, responsible of creating North Africa communication strategy.
• Managing the development of a communication plans UNOPS North Africa
• Produce high-quality communications and visibility materials in French and in English
• Prepare articles to increase visibility of UNOPS on websites and social media
• Meeting with relevant stakeholders and partners to better understand and excute their visibility plan
• Responsible of preparing of short videos and photo stories of projects during their implementation
• Address ad-hoc communication requests
• Develops high-levelexternal communication materials and products (brochures, information documents, newsletters, etc.)
• Collect and analyze project achievements to support external communication of results and lessons learned from projects and by sharing substantive inputs and recommendations as needed
• Represent UNOPS North Africa in communication and knowledge management initiatives
• Contribute actively to the implementation and monitoring of existing and newly developed project communication plans
• Monitor and oversee outstanding North Africa projects to ensure that the achievements of these projects are properly captured in the right communication formats for external outreach purpose and for partner satisfaction
• Act as the main communications focal point of partner organizations to ensure that communications strategies are aligned between UNOPS and partner organizations on existing projects
• Responsible of coordinate with partner organizations during project implementation to ensure that joint communications are organized as much as possible (for example, joint press trips to field sites, etc.)
• Develop high-level content, presentations, correspondence, briefings, talking points and all other external communication material including content for social media
• Liaise with the Communications Group in Head Quarters as well as project communication focal points colleagues on communication matters when necessary
• In coordination with the HQ Communication team, develop and coordinate outreach and other events
• Facilitate and the implementation of different projects visibility events planned within the framework of the projects and ensure their dissemination to the various stakeholders
• Develop monitoring and communications materials using multimedia such as drones, videos and still photography.

Partnership Engagement:

• Responsible of developing communication plans in collaboration with donors for each project during and/or after the project development phase
• Research information about partners to better understand their vision and needs which will help the communication strategy
• Responsible of supporting the partnership team in developing documentation for partners
• Develop factsheets and capacity statements that are used to communicate the value-add of UNOPS to external partners, including but not limited to Ministries/Governments and financing bodies such as World Bank, IsDB and EU

Reporting:

• Responsible of coordinate and review project reporting to donors
• Responsible of coordinating with the Regional office and HQ in reporting North Africa reports and achievement
• Responsible of producing a high quality, and are submitted as per the required schedule of reporting to different donors
• In conjunction with program and project managers, ensure the timely delivery of progress reports to donors and project partners in compliance with coordination requirements
• Maintain regular contacts with all project teams to ensure timely and accurate data relating to the progress of works
• In close consultation with the PMO and Support Services ensures adherence to internal reporting mechanisms
• Prepare briefing notes for internal and external audiences on program/support services performance and other issues, as and when required
• In close collaboration with the PMO and Support Services actively support projects operational and financial closing processes to ensure timely submission of Final Financial Report to donors

Knowledge Management:

• Analyze all aspects of good performance, identifying good practices, lessons learnt and opportunities for improvement
• Develop, maintain and update partners and clients contact list/database

Qualifications

Education:

• A Master degree in business administration, development studies, political science, international relations, journalism, social media, social science, or related field is required.
• A bachelor’s degree in the above-mentioned areas or related field combined with 2 additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in communications/partnership and report writing is required
• 3 years of experience in drafting documentation for donors and capacity of doing research on partners needs desired
• Capacity of engaging in public speaking, capacity adapting style of communication depending on the audience desired
• Knowledge of the UN system and familiarity with UNOPS procedures is an advantage
• Experience of working in conflict or post-conflict environments highly desirable

Language:

• Full working Knowledge of french and english is essentiel

Application instructions

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