Social Media Content Strategy Individual Contractor

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Description

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Contribute to social media outreach through content production and posting, focusing on the following:- Drawing upon substantive input and material from the Office of the Executive Secretary and programmatic units of the Secretariat, reflecting the Secretariat’s priorities in digital conversations .Promoting key events related to the work of the Convention and its Protocols, including by drawing up social media plans and obtaining the required clearances for their implementation.   Work with the team of communication interns to set up an effective schedule of posting aligned with the Secretariat’s Communication Calendar.

Responsibilities

• Draft social media strategies and plans reflecting the Secretariat communication priorities, including support to the implementation of the Kunming – Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, meetings of the Parties to the CBD, campaigns, relevant UN days, activities of the Executive Secretary, and other activities, as appropriate.   
• Undertake social media activities including by administering or contributing to social media content boards, monitoring account activities, scheduling, posting cleared texts to the appropriate channels, designing visual assets to support messaging, and maintaining a dashboard of essential impact/engagement metrics. 
• Post videos on the YouTube channel and publish cleared communication content in the communication/news section of the CBD website using the Secretariat’s Content Management System.   
• Contribute to and use the Communication calendar, ensuring social media assets are created in a timely manner. 
• Perform other duties as required.

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• First-level degree in social sciences, communication, marketing is desirable.   

Work Experience:

• A minimum of one year of work experience with organizing outreach and social media campaigns, events or international meetings is required.
• Proficiency in using new technologies, web-based platforms and social media networks is desirable.
• Familiarity with issues related to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN system and other international, sustainable development-related processes is desirable.  

Languages:

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
• For this position, fluency in oral and written English is required and French is desirable. Knowledge of other United Nations languages is desirable.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/257934?language=en

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