The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties:

• Implements a cohesive global communication strategy on social media platforms, aligning with the organization’s recommendations to enhance websites for coherent dissemination.
• Engages local audiences in line with the Regional Programme Division’s priority issues and projects, integrating the vertical integration of communication across global, regional, and country offices.
• Regularly updates social media platforms with platform-specific content, including text, images, videos, and graphics, contributing to the improvement of knowledge management and dissemination.
• Organizes and executes social media-related campaigns and events, coordinating with diverse partners, reflecting the focus on scaling up successful pilots and addressing critical data and knowledge gaps.
• Collects and produces content for social media platforms, including various formats like infographics and videos, enhancing result-based management and monitoring across the office, including field operations.
• Participates in planning and implementing communication campaigns, selecting relevant excerpts and coordinating translation/adaptation, supporting the strengthening of field presence.
• Develops and maintains collaborations with high-level social media channels of partners, allies, and stakeholders.
• Acts as a focal point on social media matters, monitoring and reporting on the latest developments, responding to queries, and supporting the development of a long-term strategic plan field operations.
• Provides communication support to the chief of communications, especially in social media and contributing to the Annual End of Year Report.
• Contributes to relevant publications highlighting UN Habitat and RPD’s approaches, emphasizing topics like gender inclusivity, and liaises with regional communication focal points for information.
• Contributes to weekly broadcasts by collecting information from country communication focal points, ensuring colleagues are informed about ongoing activities.
• Strengthen internal coordination and accountability through strategic communication, involving refining and establishing reporting lines between headquarters-based divisions and offices away from headquarters
• Carry out tasks and responsibilities as deemed necessary by the supervisors, adapting to various assignments with flexibility and diligence.”

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• High School Diploma is required.
• A first-level university degree in Communication, Journalism or International Relations or a related field is desired.
• 2 years of experience in communications and social media marketing; ·
• Expertise in creating content for major social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) is required.
• Strong experience in creating visual (photo and video) assets for use on social media channels;
• Knowledge and experience in using social media monitoring, analytics, and scheduling tools is desired.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the UN Secretariat. Fluency (both oral and written) in English is required; knowledge of another UN official language is desirable.