UNV Public Relations Specialist

UN Entity: ESCWA

Assignment context:The UN Volunteer is responsible to deliver media outputs in a timely manner, manage social media accounts, and provide excellent support to the media team.

 Under the supervision of the Secretary of the Commission, the UN Volunteer Expert is responsible to perform the following tasks:

• Innovate effective branding, communication, advocacy action plans and public outreach activities to support the organization’s mission and objectives.
• Identify opportune events, networks, and partners, and establish networks and partnerships, to provide ESCWA with the needed platform to participate and contribute to debates on key development issues.
• Undertake the necessary groundwork for high-level forums and special events, and provide support during their happening, to ensure that those events are well covered and reach their target audiences.
• Support ESCWA staff in providing proper coverage to events and activities including drafting invitations, press releases, news items, etc.
• Coordinate press conferences, interviews, special communications opportunities and events.
• Prepare and conduct live and recorded video interviews with the top management, directors and experts on specific topics.
• Provide trainings for TV appearances of ESCWA staff.
• Draft scripts and storyboards, record voices-over, and identify visuals and footages for the production of videos.
• Work with national, regional, and international media outlets and cultivate relationships with journalists, reporters, bloggers, editors and other media professionals to publicize and communicate the mandate and strategic priorities of ESCWA.
• Identify, build, and maintain partnerships through networking and pro-active collaboration with academia and CSOs to promote ESCWA achievements, key priorities and success stories, and pursue business opportunities
• Perform other duties as requested

Inclusivity statement: 
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin, or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements: 
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable Host Entity’s policy.