Communications Specialist

Supports UNFPA’s Humanitarian Response Division in Geneva to standardize emergency communications, increase visibility and strengthen information management. The specialist coordinates the Global Humanitarian Action Overview, develops field stories and pitches, quality-assures flash updates and public documents, consolidates annual-report inputs, manages humanitarian information and.

• Coordinate the Global Humanitarian Action Overview and quality-assure public humanitarian documents
• Coordinate field stories and pitches that demonstrate humanitarian impact
• Consolidate humanitarian inputs for the UNFPA Annual Report and publications
• Establish systems to consolidate emergency information and impact data
• Integrate Humanitarian Response Division information into social-media outreach
• Draft emergency summaries updates and materials for donors and other audiences
• Organize humanitarian roundtables and launches
• Quality-assure publications templates and print and audiovisual materials
• Represent UNFPA in communications and advocacy meetings

• Advanced degree in international relations communication media or social sciences
• Five years of humanitarian communication-response experience with international organizations
• Excellent English reading writing and analytical skills
• Humanitarian communications experience

• Photography videography social-media and storytelling experience
• Public-event planning and management experience
• UN humanitarian-system communications experience
• Other UN language

• Humanitarian Communications
• Information Management
• Media Relations
• Storytelling
• Social Media
• Photography
• Videography
• Content Production
• Public Events

• Office software packages
• Web-based management systems
• Social media
• Multimedia tools
• Design tools