Digital Planning and Strategy Contractor (Information Integrity)

UNHCR seeks a home-based contractor to support Information Integrity projects on digital protection. The contractor will plan project activities, research misinformation and online harms, maintain and disseminate a response toolkit, deliver training, prepare donor and progress reporting, monitor the Global Refugee Forum pledge, and coordinate partners across UNHCR operations.

• Plan and organize Information Integrity project activities
• Research misinformation, disinformation and hate speech
• Provide guidance to country-operation pilot projects
• Draft messaging, newsletters, stories and website updates
• Maintain and disseminate the Information Integrity Response Toolkit
• Develop and deliver Toolkit training materials and programmes
• Prepare funding proposals, donor reports and internal reporting
• Monitor media and synthesize relevant misinformation and online-harm news

• At least four years of relevant work experience
• At least one year developing and delivering misinformation, disinformation and hate-speech capacity for an international organization
• At least two years of digital strategy, international relations, policy, research or project-management experience
• Advanced degree in information and communication technologies, journalism, data science, human rights, public policy or a related field, or first degree with qualifying experience
• Fluent English with excellent drafting and editorial skills

• Knowledge of trust and safety, online harms, digital literacy, digital policy and technology regulation
• Knowledge of UNHCR, humanitarian and conflict contexts, forced displacement, asylum and statelessness
• OSINT techniques

• Digital strategy
• Information integrity
• Project management
• Research design
• Donor reporting
• Training development
• Data analysis

• Microsoft Suite
• Design tools
• Monitoring tools
• Listening tools

• Official source conflict: structured listing location is Geneva, Switzerland, while the Terms of Reference states Homebased
• Hardship level H (no hardship); family duty station classification