Communications Associate, Women Friendly Cities (WFC)

UNFPA’s global mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is healthy and wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. UNFPA has been operating in Türkiye since 1971, currently running its 6th Country Programme in more than 20 provinces. Delivery of accessible and rights-based reproductive health and youth-friendly services particularly targeting vulnerable groups, prevention of child, early and forced marriage, promotion of gender equality, prevention of gender-based violence, in-depth analysis of population dynamics are the main aims of UNFPA 6th Country Programme (2016-2020) and 7th Country Programme (2021-2025). UNFPA works with governments, universities, CSOs and the private sector to support data collection, service delivery, capacity enhancement-trainings, and policy/legislation design. Under the UNFPA Development Programme, two projects regarding prevention of child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) have been implemented.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need incumbents who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

The Communications Associate, based in Ankara, will be a full-time member of the WFC program team. This role primarily reports to the Programme Manager, WFC, for all programmatic communication activities, and operates under the overall guidance of the Communications Analyst, UNFPA Türkiye to drive WFC program’s visibility, communication, and advocacy efforts, promoting objectives, ongoing work, and achievements, with due acknowledgment of EU financial support. S/he will provide vital communications support to the TAT, contributing technical expertise to enhance the advocacy power of CSOs and municipalities in promoting WFCs. In addition to the WFC Programme and Project Manager, s/he will collaborate closely with the Communications Analyst at UNFPA Türkiye and work within the Communications team to ensure a standardized and coherent communication and visibility approach throughout implementation that is coherent with and aligned to the UNFPA Country Programme.

• Acting as Liaison between the UNFPA Communications and WFC Programme team members including Local Quality Experts on the ground.
• Ensuring the field and programme visibility and communications commitment are conducting properly and timely aligned with the project proposal.
• Designing and supporting the implementation of a 3 year long communication and advocacy strategy in line with the programme priorities to create visibility and increase awareness about the project, its objectives and achievements and to also increase interaction on the programme website.
• Gathering content and coverage of relevant efforts/best practices of the municipalities and NGOs to identify effective programme activities and results.
• Developing ideas and producing creative content including press releases, web articles, human interest stories and social media campaigns with the key messages by promoting the programmatic work in close collaboration with the programme team.
• Organizing events, activities, field visits, photo/video missions, press trips and joint campaigns with the partnership of the municipalities and civil society partners which are already the stakeholders of the project as well as academia, influencers and media.
• Monitoring and reporting communication materials prepared by UoM and municipalities.
• Monitoring and reporting the related press content and maintains a timely library of media coverage.
• Measuring and evaluating the success of the assets timely with an analysis on audience and engagement, and providing recommendations for improvement.
• Preparing donor requested visual communications/visibility reports.
• Keeping abreast of UNFPA broader communications in Türkiye, regionally and globally and creating synergies between WFC communications and its contribution as part of overall UNFPA deliverables in Türkiye.
• Performing other duties as required.



Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day, 5th of December).
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities (for instance at https://vra.unv.org),
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.