Background
The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and inequality pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
UNDP is incubating a number of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring it is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiative is the Accelerator Lab Network. The initiative is a recognition that increasingly interrelated development challenges require going beyond business as usual and single point, linear and silver bullet responses in development. Instead, they call for interdisciplinary approaches and non-linear solutions that crowd in the collective efforts of variety of partners and tap into local insights and the knowledge of people closest to the problem and the solutions.
Accelerator Labs are UNDP’s new way of working in development. Together with our core partners, the State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Germany, 60 labs serving 78 countries will work together with national and global partners to find radically new approaches that fit the complexity of current development challenges. The labs will transform our collective approach by introducing new services, backed by evidence and practice, and by accelerating the testing and dissemination of solutions within and across countries. The sense-making, collective intelligence, solutions mapping, and experimentation will be part of the new offer from UNDP to governments.
UNDP Cambodia Country Office is looking for a communications consultant to work with Accelerator Labs[1] in Cambodia. The consultant will ensure the delivery of high quality media products and content, the development and implementation of communications and outreach strategies, and the periodic reporting of their progress. The approval of all deliverables and instructions for all activities shall come from the Accelerator Labs and UNDP Communications Team.
[1] https://acceleratorlabs.undp.org/
Duties and Responsibilities
Under direct supervision of the Accelerator Labs and working with the UNDP communications team, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
Develop the Accelerator Labs’ communication plans and outreach strategies and action plan for 2020
Organize and coordinate the Accelerator Labs’ launching events in January 2020 and support the UNDP communications team in the media and public outreach;
Oversee and coordinate with designer the production of high quality communications collaterals including social media content, posters, info graphic, the Labs’ website landing page’s layout and content, and video clips;
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
Excellent written and oral communications skill
Creative and innovative
Ability to work independently
Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely in written and oral form
Familiar with local and international media trending
Corporate Competencies:
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Bachelor degree (Master degree preferred) in international relations, communications, marketing or related field studies
Experience:
A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in communications and brand management
Proven experience in strategic communication management
Experience in product launching or building an early stage startup brand is desirable
Proven experience in UN communication and social media engagement is an advantage
Proven experience in developing and managing high quality multimedia contents including video clip, info graphic, poster, etc
Any experience with innovation project is a plus
Language Requirement:
Fluency in written and oral English.
Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=61026 for more 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:
(i) Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work
(ii) Sample of work to proven experience in developing and managing high quality multimedia contents including video clip, info graphic, poster
(iii) Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable)
2. Financial proposal
3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references
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