Communications Senior Officer

Implement the communications strategy and plan:

• Contribute to the creation of LIFT´s communication strategy by providing accurate, updated, and analyzed data as an insight for the strategy definition. 

• Day-to-day communications coordination and execution, ensuring that high-quality work is delivered in a timely manner to support core LIFT activities in the best possible way.

• Follow the tracking framework to ensure quality and timely delivery of the plan. 

• Constantly update the information about the different communication channels to facilitate effective reporting, proper templates, access to information, formatted impact accounts, and more. 

• Support regular communication assessments, to ensure mapping of the Programme´s needs.

• Contribute to the communications budget tracking process, ensuring compliance with UNOPS rules and regulations. 

• Collaborate with the Communications Specialist on proposal writing activities, including working on methodologies, creating templates, and continuously improving the process. 

• Analyze the local communication context, the target audiences/stakeholders, and available communication channels as well as unforeseen events that may impact operations and LIFT´s reputation. 

• Contribute to delivering high-level, strategic messages,  at meetings, in reports and newsletters, and when needed ad hoc.

Content management and creation: 

• Create communication editorial content including talking points, FAQs, internal messages, fact sheets, news releases, website content, social media, and videos.

• Identify, select, extract, and summarize data in a structured fashion. 

• Lead and execute the process of capturing, recording, and transforming content into insightful/strategic information to communicate with LIFT's main stakeholders. 

• Conduct literature searches, and write literature summaries and manuscripts, requiring preliminary judgments after the supervisor outlines a conceptual approach.

• Prepare messaging for target audiences, choose effective communications channels, and refine messages to optimize impact.

• Partner with subject matter experts to develop comprehensive reports for internal leadership, employees, and external stakeholders.

• Manage multiple deliverables simultaneously and anticipate short-, medium-, and long-term communication needs.

Stakeholder management:

• Partner with the Communications Specialist to develop strong relationships/partnerships with the Programme´s main stakeholders, to enhance strategic alliances and visibility.

• Follow the process to communicate with Donnor´s and stakeholders, effectively.

• Contribute to the organization of external events, ensuring to represent UNOPS following the highest standards of diplomacy and alignment with LIFT´s communications principles. 

• Work with subject matter experts to develop comprehensive reports for internal leadership, employees, and external stakeholders.

Innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building

• Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned to develop knowledge and build stakeholders' capacity.

• Apply innovative approaches to support the implementation and delivery of effective and efficient initiatives. 

• Participate in capacity-building sessions to enhance the stakeholder´s capacity development. 

• Contribute to the development of a learning management culture within the communications team to ensure sustainable and scalable growth.

Education:

• A Master’s degree preferably in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Social Sciences, Multimedia Management, or other similar field is required.

• A first-level university degree (Bachelor's), preferably in the above professional fields with 2 additional years of relevant experience, could be considered in lieu of the Master´s degree.

Experience: 

• A minimum of 2 years of progressive experience in strategic communications, including content creation, media relations, and digital communications literacy, working for a global organization is required. 

• Experience in editing, writing, and storytelling skills in English and the local required language, to address various audiences, are required. 

• Experience in Social Media tracking tools, CMS systems and digital content creation is required. 

• Experience with sensitive and complex communication, issues management, and drafting clear messages for high-level stakeholders is an asset. 

• Experience in advising senior management on all aspects of strategic and crisis communication, including messaging and media training is an advantage. 

• Experience managing sensitive and complex communication in a corporate/diplomatic context is highly desirable.  

• Experience in training and mentoring programme colleagues and partners in collecting data and impact stories for internal reports and updates as well as external use is an advantage. 

• Experience working with the UN or international organizations is highly desirable.

• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (e.g. MS Office newer versions, Google Suite Applications) is required.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

• Proficiency in  Burmese is required.