Job Summary

UNFPA has committed to scale up its humanitarian response and increase organizational capacity with a focus on preventing and responding to gender-based violence and addressing sexual and reproductive health needs in emergencies. To support this organizational need, the development of a Global Emergency Roster will ensure UNFPA has access to a pool of qualified individuals to deploy for short-term emergency assignments (up to three months for internal staff and up to six months for non-staff). UNFPA invites suitable, interested and available personnel (staff members and current UNFPA consultant contract holders), as well as, qualified independent humanitarian professionals to apply for registration in the Global Emergency Roster.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: Responsible for advising the Country Representative and emergency response team on all aspects of external and internal communication. This includes responsibilities around relevant information flow and visibility of UNFPA emergency assistance that highlights sexual and reproductive health, gender and gender-based violence in humanitarian response. More specifically, the incumbent will ensure public visibility of UNFPA issues and activities through media engagement, production of visual assets, national and local communication campaigns; oversee internal communication activities including SitReps and country updates; oversee communicating with communities and affected populations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced degree in communications, public relations, journalism, advertising or related field.
• 3-7 years of experience in communications, public relations, journalism or advertising; preferably some experience with public relations or information campaigns.
• Experience in or familiarity with a humanitarian setting a major asset.
• Proficiency in English. Depending on the duty station, another UN language such as French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese or Russian may be required.