Job Title: Communications Analyst
Organization: UNDP
Job Identification: 11694
Location: New Delhi, India
Apply Before: 07/07/2023, 09:29 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
Grade: NPSA-9
Vacancy Type: National Personnel Service Agreement
Practice Area: Nature, Climate and Energy
Bureau: Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Contract Duration: 1 Year
Education & Work Experience: Master's Degree - 2 year(s)
experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 4 year(s) experience
Required Languages: English
Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks
Job Description
Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at
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and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all
personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and
fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our
diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations.
People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are
strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our
values and inspiring
stories.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any
kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All
selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background
checks.
UNDP has been working in India since1951 in almost
all areas of human development. Together with the
Government of India and development partners, we have worked towards
eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities, strengthening local governance,
enhancing community resilience, protecting the environment, supporting policy
initiatives and institutional reforms, and accelerating sustainable
development for all.
With projects and programmes in every state and union
territory in India, UNDP works with national and subnational government, and
diverse development actors to deliver people-centric results, particularly for
the most vulnerable and marginalized communities. As the integrator for
collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the UN
system, we are committed to supporting the Government of India’s national
development vision and priorities and accelerating the
achievement of the SDGs for the people and the planet.
Our new Country Programme (2023-2027) builds on our prior work and aims to provide
an integrated approach to development solutions in three strategic
portfolios:
- Strong, accountable and evidence-led institutions for accelerated achievement of the SDGs
- Enhanced economic opportunities and social protection to reduce inequality, with a focus on
the marginalized
- Climate-smart
solutions, sustainable ecosystems and resilient development for reduced
vulnerability
South-South cooperation, gender equality and social
inclusion are promoted across the pillars. The programme is supported by a
framework of renewed partnerships and blended finance solutions, strategic
innovation and accelerator labs, and data and digital architecture.
You are invited to join a team of future-smart development professionals to support Indiain achieving
the national and globally agreed goals. As part of the UNDP team, your focus
will be to work with
diverse stakeholders to find country-specific solutions that lead to sustainable development and reach
those furthest behind first.
The Communications Analyst will be part of the UNDP India
Country Office Communications and Partnerships team supporting the Action for
Climate and Environment portfolio.
The Communications and Partnerships team at UNDP works to
strengthen internal and external communications and build strategic
partnerships to deliver results at scale and speed to meet the Agenda 2030. The
unit is responsible for developing effective and agile communication and
partnership strategies to support the development needs of our partners and
stakeholders and promote understanding of UNDP’s work in India. The unit
delivers communication campaigns that support our diverse priorities, showcases
our stories of change, engages media, leverages digital and multimedia for
enhanced outreach engagement and advises on reputation management and crisis
communications. The Communications and Partnership unit works in close
collaboration with programme and project staff across the country, other UN
agencies, governments, donors, private sector, civil society and media to
deliver on the vision and outcomes in the Country Programme Document.
ACE provides thought
leadership on cross-cutting environment and sustainable development issues in
India, to ensure that UNDP’s mandate of convening development partners
in support of the national development agenda is amplified by internal
knowledge, research, and stand-out policy advice and programme implementation,
informed by a commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development
Goals. These are supported by a framework of renewed partnerships and blended
finance solutions, a pool of financial and technical resources for greater
impact and scale, and South-South cooperation.
The incumbent will lead the internal and external
communication, partnerships and knowledge management of the ACE
portfolio and support the corporate. Communications and
Partnerships unit. S/he will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategy and workplan of the portfolio,
designing campaigns, engaging media, generating high-quality written and audio-visual content,
preparing communication documents like talking points,
policy briefs, briefing notes, forging partnerships, mobilizing networks and
managing comms operations – in line with the CO communications strategy and
workplan. S/he will support preparation of pitch presentations/ documents for
potential donors including proposals and presentations and assist in
development of corporate engagement strategy.
The incumbent will spend 60 percent of staff time on leading
the work related to communications for
Climate Change, Disaster Resilience, Natural Resource and Chemical Management unit and 40 percent
of time on communications and partnerships led by UNDP India’s corporate
communications and partnerships unit.
Duties and Responsibilities
Ensure planning and implementation of internal and external
strategies for communications and outreach focusing on achievement of the
following results:
- Draft and finalize
communications and outreach
strategies for the portfolio, in close coordination
with state teams and in line with the corporate communications strategy.
- Planning and executing
portfolio communications need assessments and integrate findings
in work plans activities.
- Integrate
advocacy and communications into all aspects of portfolio programmatic
planning and reporting.
- Support documentation of the portfolio, in consultation with the concerned state teams and
project colleagues – for internal and external communications.
- Identifying
and writing impact stories for outreach and advocacy contributing to
debates on key development issues.
- Coordination
and management of all portfolio publication activities, including content
planning and dissemination
- Ensure assurance for high-quality communication and knowledge products
and integrate dissemination plans with CO plans.
- Enhance
visibility of the portfolio through traditional and digital media
integration, engagement and outreach.
- Identifying and assessing potential risks related
to communications and advocacy of the portfolio
and supporting the head of communications in drafting corrective actions.
- Supporting the senior
management to highlight and promote thought
leadership.
Facilitate knowledge buildingand management focusingon achievement of the following results:
- Develop communications products
to generate awareness
of programme objectives and to share updates with
beneficiaries and other local stakeholders;
- Identify
and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to
programme country goals and activities;
- Build
capacities of concerned state teams through developing standard
dissemination tools and templates for greater outreach in multiple
languages and formats.
- Mobilizing networks for greater visibility, outreach, research and knowledge management outcomes.
Support business
development focusing on achievement of the following results:
Events and Campaigns:
- Planning and integrating campaigns and outreach
in the corporate communication plan – in
coordination with the Head of Communications and Partnerships.
- Promoting public information campaigns and key messages on the
portfolio.
- Supporting high visibility events for the portfolio and the UNDP CO.
- Organize
roundtable discussions, press conferences, briefing sessions, interviews,
and advocacy events.
- Develop and disseminate
corporate advocacy materials for amplifying success
stories and key achievements of the concerned projects and
initiatives
Outreach:
- Identifying opportunities for increased media engagements to promote UNDP’s
ACE work – media interviews, op-eds, feature articles,
media partnerships, in collaboration with the corporate communications
unit
- Support
donor reporting and ensure donor visibility for the portfolio, in
consultation with the corporate communications unit.
- Promoting and disseminating advocacy materials to promote portfolio and CO’s flagship
initiatives and publication, in collaboration with relevant partners and
media.
- Support state teams and implementing partners for outreach
activities, as and when required.
Effective management of portfolio comms unit:
- Ensuring
close and timely supervision of portfolio communications staff for
high-quality delivery, in direct consultation with Head – Communications
and Partnerships and Head – ACE.
- Building capacities of portfolio communications staff on reporting, media engagements, branding,
social media engagements.
- Ensure effective and smooth operational functioning, including procurement and finance.
Competencies
Core competencies:
- Achieve
Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances
speed and accuracy in doing work
- Think
Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate
systemic/integrated thinking
- Learn
Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and
support their learning
- Adapt
with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations,
involve others in change process
- Act
with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple
sources of pressure simultaneously
- Engage
and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together,
build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
- Enable
Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge
differences, considers in decision making
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:
Business Management
- Communications:
Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both
through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose
communication methods depending on the audience; Ability to manage
communications internally and externally, through media, social media and
other appropriate channels
- Project
Management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources,
procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
Communications
- Media
Relations: Ability to develop media relations across all aspects of media
work including relationships with media and preparing media materials such
as messages
- Digital
Strategy: Ability to plan the use of resources through digital channels to
reach and engage target audiences effectively and to achieve particular
objectives
Digital & Innovation
- Data
analysis: Ability to extract, analyze, and visualize data (including
Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision
making
2030 Agenda - Planet
- Environment:
Environmental and social impact assessments, including data collection and
analysis
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s OR Master’s
degree in communications, social sciences,
or related field
Experience:
- Minimum 4 years
for bachelor’s OR 2 years for Master’s work
experience in communications and related activities in
development projects or with international development agencies
- Experience
in development
or corporate communications,
particularly managing environment, climate projects/portfolio
- Experience in writtenand oral communications
- Knowledge of developing audio-visual communication products
- Experience in social media communications
- Experience in working/liaising with government on environment
related projects
- Master’s degree in communications, social sciences, or related
field
- Work experience with UNDP, other UN agency,
international organizations/projects in communications field
Required Languages:
- English
Remuneration starting at INR 19,95,954 (Annual)/ 1,66,330
INR (Monthly) as per the salary scale depending on qualifications and
experiences. The remuneration is excluding 8.33% pension amount paid over and
above the salary.
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