Description
UNICEF Cameroon CO is hiring a ChiefPartnership, Advocacy, and Communicationwho will be Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing, monitoring, advocacy, and communication strategy and associated products and activities on a regular and ongoing basis with public audiences, to promote awareness, understanding, support and including for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team. He/she will also be responsible for advising on the articulation of policies and strategies, with an emphasis on those that promote gender equality and equity.
Missions / Responsibilities / Activities
He / She will perform the following tasks:
- Ensure that the Country Office has a clear communication strategy and associated work plan to support the country programme objectives and get children’s issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in, support of UNICEF's mission and objectives, promoting the organization’s credibility and brand. Programme development and planning
- Ensure that the Country Office has a well-managed country communication team that maintains and continually develops a contact list of journalists and media outlets covering all media – print, TV, radio, web, etc. – and a successful process of communicating and maintaining regular contact and close collaboration with the media to communicate the story of UNICEF's cooperation to a wider audience. New ways are identified to increase positive exposure and leverage that prominence for new opportunities for UNICEF.
- Manage a country communication team to ensure that the Country Office has a well-maintained and continually developed contact list of individuals, groups, organizations, and fora (including business), whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives of the communication strategy. The network is developed, strengthened, and maintained with the UN Country Team, UN communication counterparts, and high-level counterparts in key partner organizations.
Job Requirements
Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, or other related fields of disciplines.
(*A first University Degree combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted instead of an Advanced University Degree in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, or public relations, or corporate communications.)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience.
International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries.
Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, and new media.
Background/familiarity with Emergencies
LANGUAGES
Fluency in both English and French is required.
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