Jobs - 104407- National Communications Consultant

National Communications Consultant

Location :

Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

04-Mar-2022

Application Deadline :

21-Feb-22 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

105 working days (Mid February – 31 December 2022)

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

105 working days (Mid February – 31 December 2022)

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Under its current UNDAF 2019-2023, The United Nations in Cambodia is committed to working with the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and the people of Cambodia to achieve inclusive and equitable development, with a special focus on the most marginalized and vulnerable, to leave no one behind. The UNDAF places the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at its core.

Since 2020, the UN in Cambodia has engaged in many communications and public outreach activities such as the community conversations, radio talk shows and the digital social media campaigns, under the theme “the future we want” and the common agenda. Through those activities, we have heard loud and clear that people aspire for a better quality of life, particularly for their children and the next generations to come. Everyone we talked to want their rights protected to access quality healthcare, education and better jobs to live in dignity and in harmony with nature and society.

For this year, 2022, the UN in Cambodia continues its communications/outreach program to engage the public, in particularly young people, on challenges and opportunities that shape for creating the sustainable future and the central role of the public in achieving the 2030 Agenda.

The UN Resident Coordinator Office (RCO) is recruiting a national communication consultant to provide substantial support to strategic communications and outreach, assist in partnership building and media relations, day-to-day digital communications, publication and branding management.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of RCO Team Leader and direct supervision of RCO Communications Officer, the Communications Consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

Produce creative graphic design for RCO’s outreach and communication materials in coordination with RCO communication officer.
- Design Country Result Report including layout, adding infographics and visuals
- Develop and design Joint Programme Factsheet/leaflet including layout, adding infographics and visuals
Develop social media package for RCO’s social media platforms and publish on them accordingly on weekly basis as given detail assignment:
- Research and ensure the understanding about UN agencies in Cambodia, UN programmes, UN Joint Programmes and produce catchy and informative contents
- Produce image visuals which can be posters, photos, infographic to promote UN in Cambodia, joint programmes, programmes, and public awareness information
- Produce image visuals which involved searching for stories, developing content, writing script, filming, and editing.
Provide communication assistance to UN’s international celebrations, both online and offline, local and global including develop and design social media packages for online campaign (posters, photos, short videos, blog piece, etc) and video graphing and photographing at the offline event. The international celebrations are:
- Common Agenda Community Conversations
- International Women Day
- International Youth Day
- International Environment Day
- UN Day
- 16 Days Campaign against GBV
- International Human Rights Day
- International Day of Migration Day

Competencies

Functional competencies:

Time management (in managing deliverables);
Team management;
Professionalism, courtesy, patience;
Multimedia technical competencies
Outstanding inter-cultural communication, networking and coordination skills.

Corporate competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in journalism, communications, media or media management, or media and communications.

Experience:

At least years of experience in working across the communications spectrum including in producing and publishing media and multi-media content;
Experienced in photography, videography and graphic designs;
Experienced in organizing events (workshop, launching events, etc.)
Experienced in managing social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blog platforms)
Previous experience in UN communication and social media engagement is an advantage.

Language Requirement:

Excellent written and oral English.
Proficiency in Khmer

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=87616more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your online applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an email acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Proposal: Letter of explaining why they are most suitable for the work

2. Financial proposal (Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP)

3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email pheara.lek@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC).