UN Women, firmly rooted in the vision of equality enshrined within the Charter of the United Nations, actively works to eliminate discrimination against women and girls. Furthermore, we champion women’s empowerment and, significantly, strive to achieve genuine equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries across all aspects of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security. Our critical efforts demand a skilled Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist.
Ultimately, placing women’s rights at the very core of all our endeavors, UN Women leads and coordinates the entire United Nations system’s efforts. Consequently, we ensure commitments to gender equality and gender mainstreaming effectively translate into action worldwide. We achieve this by providing strong and coherent leadership, supporting Member States’ priorities and initiatives, and crucially, forging effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Opportunity: Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist Consultant in Lebanon
Presently, UN Women actively recruits a highly competent Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist consultant. This individual, therefore, will develop and execute essential media materials related to women’s empowerment and women’s leadership in Lebanon.
This Communications Specialist will report directly to the Women’s Political Participation Programme Manager, who will supervise this consultancy as the primary focal point. Additionally, a program assistant will provide support, handling contract and payment-related inquiries. Importantly, the Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist will collaborate across multiple critical programs, including Women’s Political Participation (WPP), Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), and the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF).
Key Responsibilities and Scope of Work for the Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist
The selected candidate for this consultancy will undertake a diverse range of responsibilities, all aimed at amplifying UN Women’s impact. Specifically, they will:
- Develop and Execute Media Campaigns: A core responsibility involves designing and implementing a robust media campaign. This campaign, moreover, will disseminate key findings and insights from a study on women’s participation in political parties in Lebanon. The ultimate goal, therefore, is to reach a diverse audience and maximize the study’s impact, alongside supporting other programs with their communication needs. This role is central to our women’s empowerment initiatives.
The comprehensive Scope of Work includes:
Managing Digital Platforms and Content Creation for a Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist
- Manage the Feminist Platform’s website.
- Support the platform in producing all necessary media materials. This includes, but is not limited to, designing and uploading press releases to its website and social media channels; consistently updating social media with new materials as needed; developing visuals, short videos, and infographics; and refining its overall communication and messaging.
- Design various crucial documents, such as reports, portfolio documents, briefing papers, and PowerPoint presentations. Furthermore, the Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist will produce dissemination plans for these materials.
- Draft a complete communication plan. This plan, for example, could involve producing videos, testimonies, reels, visual designs, motion graphic videos, and photographs. Moreover, the consultant will suggest a social media plan for effective dissemination.
- Develop and implement comprehensive communication strategies that directly align with relevant program goals and objectives for women’s empowerment.
Supporting Events and Branding: The Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist’s Role
- Provide crucial communication support for event preparations. This encompasses producing invitations, PowerPoint presentations, banners, backdrops, and any other visual materials required for specific events. Additionally, they will create a banner template for use by UN Women Lebanon and its partners.
- Develop project joint branding and ensure its consistent application to all project visibility collateral, thereby enhancing project visibility.
- Develop a generic donor briefing template in both Word and PowerPoint formats.
- Develop a dedicated micro-page on the UN Women Lebanon website, prominently featuring the project’s joint branding and acknowledging all stakeholders. This webpage, furthermore, also requires frequent updates with relevant stories and publications.
Building Capacity and Disseminating Information as a Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist
- Organize and conduct training sessions for implementing partners on project-specific communications guidelines and empowering advocacy tools.
- Support the writing and dissemination of press releases and media advisories throughout the duration of the project.
- Produce and disseminate compelling human-interest stories and profiles of women and girls from diverse vulnerable groups impacted by the crisis. These stories will appear in interactive formats, such as photo essays, videos, and interactive webpages. Subsequently, UN Women Lebanon and its partners will disseminate them on their respective websites. This directly supports our women’s empowerment goals.
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy, offering flexibility.
Required Competencies for a Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist
Successful candidates must demonstrate the following:
Core Values and Competencies
- Core Values: Integrity; Professionalism; Respect for Diversity.
- Core Competencies: Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues; Accountability; Creative Problem Solving; Effective Communication; Inclusive Collaboration; Stakeholder Engagement; Leading by Example.
For more detailed information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework, please refer to this link: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf
Functional Competencies for a Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist
- Communicate sensitively, effectively, and creatively across different constituencies.
- Strongly manage web-based knowledge management systems.
- Strongly understand production, graphic design, and photography standards.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of social media platforms and proven experience in social media outreach.
- Exhibit strong oral and written communication and editing skills.
- Possess excellent communication and advocacy skills.
- Provide strategic and analytical advice.
- Possess good knowledge of the local country media landscape.
- Knowledge of gender and human rights issues is, of course, highly desirable for a Women’s Empowerment Communications Specialist.
Qualifications
Education and Certification
- A Master’s degree (or equivalent) in communications, public relations, journalism, or a relevant field is required.
- Alternatively, a first-level university degree combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may suffice.
Experience
- At least 5 years of professional work experience at national or international levels in public relations, communications, or advocacy, including specific experience in media relations, is required.
- Demonstrated experience using social media is required.
- Experience in gender and human rights issues is, naturally, considered a valuable asset.
- Proficiency in computer skills, statistics, internet communication, and command of MS Office is required.
Languages
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of Arabic or French is, moreover, a distinct asset.
Important Statements
The United Nations General Assembly established UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in July 2010. This creation was a vital part of the UN reform agenda, consolidating resources and mandates for greater impact. Consequently, it merged and built upon the significant work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW, and UNIFEM), all of which exclusively focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Diversity and Inclusion at UN Women
At UN Women, we are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment built on mutual respect. Therefore, UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes individuals irrespective of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment decisions rely solely on qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.
If you require any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please be sure to include this information in your application.
UN Women maintains a zero-tolerance policy on conduct incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women. This includes sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All selected candidates must adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel. Consequently, all applicants will undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may provide additional information for a background check.)
Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are thoroughly completed. Failure to complete all sections may, ultimately, result in the application’s disqualification from the recruitment and selection process.
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