Partnership, Advocacy & Communication Analyst

UN Women Burundi’s Strategic Note 2024-2027 aligns with UN Women’s Global Strategic Plan 2022-2025, the National Development Plan 2018-2027 reinforced by the National Program for the Capitalization of Peace, Social Stability and the Promotion of Economic Growth (PNCP 2021-2027), the National Gender Policy (NGP) 2012-2025 and UNSC Resolution 1325, UNSDCF (2023-2027) and the United Nations Resilience Framework. It captures the triple mandate of UN WOMEN (Normative, Coordination and Programmatic) aimed at supporting government and partners to achieve lasting results for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, building on its comparative advantages.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Advocacy, networking and partnership building:

• Identify, build and maintain partnerships through networking and proactive collaboration with strategic partners, e.g. academia; social networks; celebrities, journalist, media, all sectors/levels of society and critical audience to reinforce cooperation and/or pursue opportunities for advocacy to promote UN Women’s mission and goals
• Collaborate with internal global/regional communication partners to harmonize, link and/or coordinate messaging and use of multiple media and communication platforms to enhance outreach on GEWE including in humanitarian contexts.
• Participate in organizational and/or inter-agency discussions and planning to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues enhance advocacy for Gender mainstreaming in the UNSCDF planning, preparation and for resource mobilization initiatives

Provide substantive support to the planning and design of external communication and outreach/advocacy strategies and plans:

• Provide analysis for elaboration of communication strategies; ensure gender perspective;
• Integrate communication, advocacy and outreach strategies into proposals for project/programmes and other initiatives, as necessary;
• Monitor and analyze print and social media and provide analysis to RO/HQ;
• Provide inputs and support to the launch of in-country UN Women/ UN system corporate and local campaigns and special events.

Coordinate and contribute substantively to the development and dissemination of advocacy materials in Burundi Country Office:

• Draft briefing materials, and press releases and coordinate its dissemination through effective channels;
• Identify storylines for publication and articles;
• Promote and disseminate corporate advocacy materials for launching flagship initiatives, publications, and campaigns;
• Coordinate the translation/adaption/rewriting of information received, printing and dissemination of publications and audio-visual materials;
• Follow guidelines from HQ and RO.

Coordinate media relations for the Burundi Country Office:

• Coordinate the establishment of relevant relationships;
• Maintain list of relevant media in country;
• Respond to inquiries for public and UN system information materials;
• Organize roundtable discussions, press conferences and briefing session for press, as required;
• Draft talking points.

Build and maintain partnerships and maintain relations with donors:

• Maintain relationships with partners and alliances to enhance visibility;
• Liaise with advocacy partners and undertake outreach to civil society organizations, governments, and other groups to ensure that newsworthy information reaches the public and donors, as delegated.

Coordinate the Burundi Country Office’s web/ online presence:

• Coordinate Burundi Country Office’s websites’ content and maintenance based on corporate requirements;
• Coordinate Burundi Country Office’s social media accounts in line with corporate social media policy;
• Upload information to knowledge management system on a regular basis, including news, updates, resources.

Facilitate knowledge building and sharing:

• Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme goals and activities;
• Organize and conduct training and workshops on communication and advocacy, as appropriate.

Required Skills and Experience:
Education and certification:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Communications, Public relations, Journalism or relevant field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of professional work experience at national or international level in public relations, communications or advocacy;
• Experience in the use of social media and digital communications
• Experience in the use of computers applications and software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) as well as web-based management systems;
• Experience in UN Systems would be an asset

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in French is required.
• Working Knowledge of the English is required.

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=115226