Communication Specialist (NO-3), FT, #010699, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, MENA at UNICEF | Berlin, DE | Rezi

Communication Specialist (NO-3), FT, #010699, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, MENA at UNICEF

Communication Specialist (NO-3), FT, #010699, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, MENA

UNICEF · Berlin, DE

4 days ago

Communication Specialist (NO-3), FT, #010699, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, MENA

UNICEF · Berlin, DE

5 days ago
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About the Role

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. The role is accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing, and monitoring advocacy and communication related strategies to target and influence relevant audiences, build child rights champions, and promote support for UNICEF's mission.

Responsibilities

  • Communication strategy
  • Digital Content Production and Oversight
  • Media relations
  • Networking and partnerships
  • Celebrities and special events
  • Global priorities and campaigns
  • Resource mobilization support
  • Management
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Capacity building and support

Requirements

  • Minimum five years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in communication, print, broadcast, and/or new media.
  • International and national work experience (for IP). Field work experience (for NO).
  • Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
  • Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Skills

  • Communication strategy
  • Digital content
  • Media relations
  • Networking
  • Advocacy
  • Monitoring and evaluation

Location

  • State of Palestine

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Minimum five years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience

Education Level

  • Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations.
  • Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • Breastfeeding breaks
  • Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities

About the Company

  • UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
  • UNICEF is committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed.
  • Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
  • UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world.
  • We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
  • The situation of children and young people in the State of Palestine continues to be shaped by protracted conflict and deepening humanitarian needs and related response.
  • The security situation is volatile and unpredictable both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
  • In this context, UNICEF State of Palestine’s response includes a strong footprint in the Gaza Strip and across the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.
  • UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.
  • UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children.
  • Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan.
  • UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts.
  • Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

Equal Opportunity

  • The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
  • UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence.
  • UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18).
  • UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.
  • UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.
  • For this position, eligible and suitable male are encouraged to apply.