Local Post: Strategic Communications

3 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa UNFPA Full time

**The Position**:
Under the guidance of the Director of the East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) and the Regional Communications Adviser, as direct supervisor, the Strategic Communications and Media Specialist ensures the effective functioning of the Communications Unit in ESARO. This position plays an important role in advancing UNFPA's mission by enhancing the visibility and impact of its work through strategic media engagement, external relations, donor communications, and humanitarian communications.

**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.

**Job Purpose**:
The Strategic Communications and Media Specialist will develop and implement comprehensive media and communications strategies that effectively communicate UNFPA's work, priorities, and impacts to diverse audiences. This role involves close collaboration with internal teams, media outlets, donors, and other stakeholders to ensure coherent and compelling narratives.
- Develop and implement comprehensive media and communications strategies to effectively communicate UNFPA's work, priorities, and impacts to diverse audiences.
- Enhance the credibility and thought leadership of UNFPA through strategic media engagement, digital communications, external and donor relations, and humanitarian communications.
- Cultivate and maintain effective relationships with media representatives, stakeholders, donors, and key partners to promote and support UNFPA's mission and initiatives.
- Produce and disseminate high-quality communication materials that convey compelling narratives about UNFPA’s impact and achievements.
- Monitor media landscapes and use insights to inform and adjust communication strategies for maximum effectiveness.

Support the coordination and alignment of media strategies with broader organizational communication goals and objectives.

**You would be responsible for**:
Strategic Media Engagement
- Develop and implement a strategic media plan to enhance UNFPA’s credibility and thought leadership.
- Consolidate and strengthen strategic partnerships and networks with media.
- Identify key media opportunities and create an annual media calendar.
- Monitor global and regional media landscapes to inform media strategies.
- Develop creative and innovative ways to market and pitch UNFPA.

Content Development and Dissemination
- Produce user-friendly materials on key thematic areas for dissemination to the media, key stakeholders, donors, the private sector, and other audience groups.
- Maintain and update the website and media platforms regularly with input from program staff.
- Draft press releases, feature stories, briefing notes, news reports, talking points, opinion pieces, and other information material on UNFPA and its work.
- Write and edit stories to ensure quality and conformity to UNFPA’s information standards and United Nations editorial and professional journalistic style, accuracy, and objectivity, as well as political/cultural balance.

Media Relations and Networking
- Cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with representatives of all types of media, including national, regional traditional and digital media, news networks, services, and agencies.
- Develop relationships with regional traditional and digital media, advertising agencies, and other private sector partners (including freelance writers, photographers, videographers, journalists, and influencers) to explore opportunities for in-kind support to visibility campaigns and resource mobilization.
- Organize press conferences, media briefings, and interviews with UNFPA spokespeople.
- Monitor information and services provided to traditional and digital media representatives to ensure their cooperation in promoting an accurate image of the organization and its programs among policymakers and the public.
- Prepare UNFPA staff for media engagements, including providing media tr

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