Project Communications Consultant - Tenders Global

Project Communications Consultant

United Nations Children's Fund

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UNICEF Innocenti is the dedicated research office of UNICEF. It undertakes and commissions research on emerging or current issues of relevance for children to inform the strategic directions, policies and programmes of UNICEF and its partners. The office explores emerging issues, identifies research gaps, and brings together existing researchers to support or undertake new research, data collection and analysis to address critical questions. The Gender, Rights and Protection (GRP) and Social and Economic Policy (SEP) teams collaborate on the implementation of two major research projects.
The GRASSP research programme (October 2018 – March 2024) seeks to strengthen the gender-responsiveness of social protection systems (including policies, programmes and institutions) by generating robust evidence focused on ‘what works’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ to contribute to enhanced gender equality outcomes through strengthened and gender-responsive social protection systems and programmes in low- and middle-income countries. GRASSP is part of FCDO’s Gender-Responsive Social Protection (GSP) programme with UNICEF HQ, the World Bank and Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) as partners, which aims to enhance outcomes for the most marginalised women and girls from social protection and gender equality programmes and policies globally.
The ‘Evidence on Educational Strategies to Address Child Labour in South Asia’, hereafter Child Labour (CL) research project contributes to a larger FCDO-funded Asia Regional Child Labour Programme, which supports initiatives in six countries in South Asia to scale up FCDO’s efforts to tackle child labour in the region. Programme partners include the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex (IDS) and the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA). UNICEF Innocenti contributes to this programme by building evidence on the most effective educational programme and policy approaches to reduce child labour in the region, focusing on India and Bangladesh. Within this project, an evidence workshop for results’ presentation is being planned for the second quarter of 2024.
Objectives of the consultancy
The two FCDO grants expire on 31 March 2024. The objectives of this consultancy are to ensure that project activities are wrapped up effectively until June 2024, particularly the effective management of publications and dissemination of research outputs (research reports, briefs and working papers), and communication of research findings through social media, online forums such as webinars and podcasts.
Responsibility:
  • Coordination of research dissemination activities, to include webinars and online/hybrid workshops, minuting, and follow-up reporting on the events for both projects.
  • Preparation of blogs and organisation of webinars and convening for both projects.
  • Working with the Communications team to coordinate digital content creation and dissemination through social media for both projects.
  • Supporting the production of an animation and film (CL), to ensure high quality, timely delivery.
  • Supporting the Project Coordinator to monitor and measure digital and other communication mechanisms, including, but not limited to, event follow up and monitoring digital metrics for input into reporting for both projects.
  • The consultant will work under the direct supervision of Ramya Subrahmanian, Chief, Gender, Rights and Protection
  • The consultant will operate offsite. Standard working hours will be in Central European Time (CET).
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Communication, Media Studies, International Relations, International Development or other relevant fields. 
Essential skills:
  • At least five (5) years of progressively responsible relevant work experience at the national and international levels in project/programme management with specific expertise in development research communication coordination and writing.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.
  • Experience in leading the implementation of communication strategies, with clear theories of change, with specific, measurable and timebound objectives and performance indicators.
  • Proven experience in deploying a range of communication tactics/methods.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work well as part of a team.
  • Strong communicator with emphasis on being able to present complex policy ideas in succinct, engaging ways through campaign narratives and creative tactics. 

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