Communications Clerk

Viet Nam’s current social-economic model contributes to high carbon emissions and environmental degradation, while increasing disaster risks and undermining opportunities for sustainable development: The country is at a critical juncture where policy choices on infrastructure, energy, urbanization, production and consumption will shape the success of its transition towards green, low-emission and climate-resilient development. Environmental degradation and pollution continue to impact livelihood opportunities and people’s health.

• On the ground in about 170 countries and territories, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works to eradicate poverty while protecting the planet. We help countries develop strong policies, skills, partnerships and institutions so they can sustain their progress.
• UNDP – Viet Nam partnership officially started in 1978. Since then, UNDP has been working closely with the Government and other partners to expand the choices for people and ensure that everyone has equal access to opportunities to realize their full potential.
• Viet Nam is particularly vulnerable to climate change and already impacted by more irregular and intense climate variability and change and is among the top ten countries in the world most affected by natural disasters and extreme weather events. The increasing exposure of people and economic assets has been and will continue to be the major cause of long-term increases in economic losses from weather- and climate- related disasters.
• The Strengthening Viet Nam’s One Health Implementation at the Nexus of Climate Change and Environment (VOHICCE) project aims to support the Government of Viet Nam (GVN) to improve national and provincial capacities to detect, prevent, and respond to climate change related emerging infectious diseases in Viet Nam, and to strengthen One Health Coordination and One Health Workforce strategies implementation.
• The project will focus its technical, policy and coordination support efforts at both the national level, working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), and the provincial level, specifically in selected Mekong Delta locations including An Giang province, Can Tho city and Soc Trang province. The project beneficiaries include central, provincial, district and commune government personnel in the agriculture and rural development, health, and natural resources and environment sectors, and with private sector enterprises, social organizations, and local communities within these provinces.
• The KOFIH Telehealth project has the goal to improve access to healthcare services for the disadvantaged groups in Viet Nam with support from the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare. The project will support the Viet Nam Ministry of Health (MOH) in development of the technical guidelines, documents and legal framework related to telehealth/telemedicine. The capacities of both IT infrastructure will be improved via hardware and software upgrade and healthcare workers will be built via training courses at both provincial and grassroots levels. The telehealth/telemedicine services will be promoted to both healthcare workers and to people in the communities to use the “Doctor for Everyone” system developed by UNDP in collaboration with MOH.
• The Shifting Investment Flows Towards Green Transformation (SHIFT)’ project in Viet Nam aims at enhancing know-how and capacities of relevant public and private stakeholders in the areas of green finance and energy transition. The consortium consists of Agora Energiewende/the Smart Energy for Europe Platform (SEFEP), the Banking Academy of Viet Nam (BAV), International Finance Cooperation (IFC), SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Viet Nam, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as the consortium lead.
• Within the framework of SHIFT, UNDP is responsible for the design and implementation of two Work Packages. The objective is to generate interest and build technical capacity in the private sector especially women-led enterprises or enterprises with a proven approach to promote gender equality concerning RE, EE and energy transition technologies. UNDP will receive 3 million Euros (of 15 million Euros for the entire project) to implement the following two work packages: (1) design and implementation of replicable investment projects in energy transition technologies to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions in high energy consuming sectors; and (2) catalyse and facilitate the replication and scale-up of the piloted energy transition technologies and other energy transition technologies.
• UNDP Viet Nam is recruiting a Communications Clerk to support communication efforts of the Climate Change and Environment unit, the health-related projects and the IKI SHIFT.

Duties and Responsibilities

Support development of communications and advocacy materials:

• Support design and produce multimedia communication assets (short stories, videos and other required Public Information Material) capturing the project’s results in order to advocate for CCE and its projects and disseminate the assets through different communication channels (social media, newsletter, reports) across relevant stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries.
• Assist with the content creation for UNDP Climate Change and Environment (CCE) and VOHICCE project on online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and the official website.
• Support the subtitle of key television reportages that capture the projects’ impacts and achievements.
• Assist in translating content between English and Vietnamese for use in digital and social media contexts.

Support the development of document lesson learnt:

• Conduct field trips to meet beneficiaries of the project in order to gather and assist in compelling visual and written content (interviews, pictures and video footage) capturing the projects’ impact;
• Draft success stories (human interest stories) and other communications products for distribution to external audiences.
• Support development of short films, including contributing to scripts and working with filmmakers and other experts to ensure high quality, appropriate and compelling content.

Support the communications activities at the events, workshops, conferences:

• Assist in coordinating the work of production and printing agencies involved in creation of audio/video/animation/print products;
• Support the implementation of the communication activities before, during and after the key events.
• Support the organization and monitoring the livestream, online workshop including creating the livestream/zoom links, providing the recording files after the events, workshops.
• Capture photos at CCE events to support communication and archival needs;
• Assist in media tracking to collect news and/or articles related to the CCE’s events and the project from printed and online media.

Required Skills and Experience  

Min. Education requirements

• Secondary education is required.

Min. years of relevant work experience

• Minimum of 3 years (with high school diploma) of relevant experience in communications, public relations and/or marketing, advertising.

Required skills

• Solid experience in graphic design using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Experience in supporting communication tasks and collecting data.
• Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section
• At least 1 year experience in digital communications.
• Proven track record of good photo taking skill.
• Experience in supporting administration such as logistics arrangement, translation, interpretation, minutes taking, etc.
• Working experience with the UN or other international organizations.
• Proven track record of working with multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong computer literacy and proficiency in basic Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc).
• Experience and good knowledge and understanding of climate change, environmental protection, and related topics; relevant knowledge and/or experience in Viet Nam or the ASEAN region

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in English and Vietnamese is required.

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