NATIONAL CONSULTANT: Communications Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal

The Position:

The Communications Consultant at UNFPA Nepal will play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing the organization's corporate image and branding across various online platforms, including social media and the corporate website. The consultant will be responsible for creating, updating, and packaging high-quality content to promote UNFPA's results and priorities. This includes coordinating with creative professionals for audiovisual products, collaborating with media partners to expand reach, and producing compelling news content and human-interest stories. Additionally, the consultant will support the production of high-quality merchandise, ensure visibility at events, and provide strategic advice to improve communication efforts.

You will report to Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist. 

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

The Communications Consultant at UNFPA Nepal will play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing the organization's corporate image and branding across various online platforms, including social media and the corporate website. The consultant will be responsible for creating, updating, and packaging high-quality content to promote UNFPA's results and priorities. This includes coordinating with creative professionals for audiovisual products, collaborating with media partners to expand reach, and producing compelling news content and human-interest stories. Additionally, the consultant will support the production of high-quality merchandise, ensure visibility at events, and provide strategic advice to improve communication efforts.

You would be responsible for:

• Manage UNFPA Nepal’s corporate image and branding in online spaces including regularly creating and updating content on social media channels and managing the corporate website to communicate high quality image, text and audiovisual messages.
• Contribute and where required lead on the creation and packaging of content to promote the results and priorities of UNFPA including where necessary coordinating with the creative community to produce creative inputs, audio-visual products, photography and design.
• Coordinate with the online and media community to strengthen existing and new partnerships to amplify the reach of UNFPA communications in innovative ways drawing on opportunities including social influencers and agenda setters.
• Identify and produce news content and human-interest success stories that showcase the achievements of UNFPA. Traveling to the field, conducting interviews and transcribing beneficiary interviews from Nepali to English will be required.
• Support the country office and programmes to produce high quality merchandise in line with UNFPA’s quality standards and corporate image guidelines by coordinating with suppliers and ensuring appropriate quality standards in products.
• Coordinate and ensure visibility of UNFPA and relevant donors at events organized by UNFPA and partners and ensure these are well documented in text and photography for use on UNFPA’s communications platforms.
• Support field offices and provide quality control of corporate communications across media platforms and provide advice to the country and provincial officers on improving the communication strategy.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

• Advanced Degree in the field of Media/Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or relevant discipline.

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in media/communications, journalism, public relations, political science or development work in a relevant discipline;
• Knowledge and practical experience in development communication;
• Working experience in working with Media;
• Excellent writing skills, with experience writing reports, newsletters, and programme updates;
• Excellent understanding of web production, social media, and multimedia tools;
• Intimate knowledge and ease of navigation of traditional and new digital and social media;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Demonstrated team player in an international team environment;
• Prior experience in the multilateral system is an asset but is not mandatory.

Languages: 

• Fluency in English and Nepali (both oral and written) is required. Other UN languages are an asset.

Required Competencies: 

Values:

•   Exemplifying integrity, 
•   Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system, 
•   Embracing cultural diversity, 
•   Embracing change

Core Competencies: 

•    Achieving results,
•    Being accountable,
•    Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
•    Thinking analytically and strategically,
•    Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,

Functional Competencies:

• Advocacy/ Advancing a policy-oriented agenda,
• Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/ building strategic alliances and partnerships,
• Delivering results-based programmes,
• Internal and external communication and advocacy for results mobilization,
• Strategically positioning UNFPA’s mandate and programme activities,
• Providing conceptual innovation to support programme effectiveness,
• Strengthening the capacity of local implementing partners,
• Facilitating quality programme results,

Compensation and Benefits:

 This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.

UNFPA Work Environment:

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA's workforce - click here to learn more.

Disclaimer:

Selection and appointment may be subject to background and reference checks, medical clearance, visa issuance and other administrative requirements. 

UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process and does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts. 

Applicants for positions in the international Professional and higher categories, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.