Communication & Outreach Specialist

Result of Service

To coordinate the efforts of the child projects, promote knowledge generation and sharing, and lead engagement with international stakeholders.

Work Location

Geneva

Expected duration

12 months

Duties and Responsibilities

As an established global knowledge brokerage, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business, and finance professionals and organisations committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green and circular economy. The GGKP is led by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the World Bank. The mission of GGKP is to empower government decision makers, companies and financial institutions with evidence-based knowledge that can best support them to contribute effectively to the green and circular economy transition. GGKP provides its best practice knowledge brokerage services through its three core platforms, the Green Policy Platform, the Green Industry Platform, and the Green Finance Platform, as well as its online interactive community space, the Green Forum. In addition to its three platforms and the Green Forum, GGKP also provides targeted knowledge management, communication and stakeholder engagement services for global projects funded under the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The core focuses of GGKP as a knowledge brokerage are: ● Using world-class knowledge management, communication and application systems and tools to provide practitioners, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to access, share, and apply green and circular economy policy analysis, guidance, information, and data. ● Identifying major knowledge gaps in green and circular economy theory and practice and addressing these gaps by promoting collaboration and coordinated research. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme, “Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) is a new GEF funded programme that aims to strengthen the sound management of agricultural chemicals and their waste, through better control, and reduction and / or elimination. To achieve this aim, the overall objective of the FARM programme is to generate a framework of knowledge and tools for financing sustainable agriculture practices, and that will address incentivising financing through adjustments to key policies, regulations, standards, norms, and market innovations. The FARM programme is being implemented by UNEP with GGKP as an executing agency for the Global Child Project. There are seven Child Projects within the programme in three regions, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America, for which the executing agencies are UNEP/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNIDO. The role of the FARM Global Child Project is to coordinate the efforts of the child projects, promote knowledge generation and sharing, and lead engagement with international stakeholders. A consultant is sought to support the GGKP in the execution of the FARM Global Child Project, and specifically to lead the development, implementation and monitoring of communications, advocacy, and outreach activities., and support stakeholder engagement activities. 2. Purpose and Scope of Assignment The specific tasks related to this assignment wil be under the supervision of the FARM project manager and in coordination with the GGKP communications team, and will include: a)Strategic Communication and advocacy • Update and implement the FARM Communication, Advocacy and Outreach strategy and action plan • Guide child projects on social behaviour campaigns and promote related learnings across Child Projects • Lead the Global Child Project’s advocacy efforts to target stakeholders through leadership voices, social media posting channels, awareness building and advocacy campaigns, and videos • Launch, manage, and monitor the FARM website and other public facing portals • Monitor and analyse performance of offline and online communication channels to ensure alignment with FARM’s mission b) Communication Activities Coordination and Guidance • Create and manage internal communication guidelines and train Child Project communication focal points • Coordinate Child Project communication focal points, overseeing the implementation and management of the joint Communication and Knowledge Management Group • Lead the preparation and dissemination of FARM-specific outreach and communications material such as newsletters, press release, reports, social media posts and other related other knowledge products • Support the development of public facing publications, such as FARM programme annual monitoring reports and Child Project briefs c) Outreach and Engagement • Identification, design, implementation and monitoring of an outreach approach and related activities to engage effectively with FARM’s target audience and ensure high quality and visibility of outreach materials • Manage and monitor FARM’s website and social media channels, updating content regularly • Foster information exchange between FARM stakeholders and raise awareness about program activities • Coordinate the creation and management of an engaging and active Green Forum community space for FARM

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced University degree (master’s or equivalent) in communications, media or closely related area is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in the field of communications and outreach is required ● Experience of working on topics related to international development, sustainable development, sustainable finance and/or agriculture is required. ● Knowledge and experience of social behavior change and related advocacy and campaigns is preferred ● Experience of working on specific topics related to Agri-chemicals and/or plastics would be an advantage. ● Excellent ability to independently generate clear and concise content is required ● Very good Microsoft Office skills are required. ● Skills with communication tools, for example Canva, Adobe Indesign, etc., are preferred. ● Proven ability to work in a multitasking environment. ● Experience of working in an international and intergovernmental organization.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised excellent written and verbal English proficiency is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.