Communications Associate

UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women work in Ukraine focuses on supporting the government and civil society in advancing gender equality and implementation of the national and international commitments on gender equality and women’s human rights. UN Women Ukraine implements interventions towards the realization of following strategic goals: elimination of violence against women and girls; implementation of women, peace and security agenda and gender responsive governance. UN Women works closely with the UN Country Team in integration of women’s rights and gender equality in all spheres of UN work.

Since the beginning of the Russian full scale military invasion, Ukraine is rapidly emerging as one of the world’s most complex emergencies.

The communications and advocacy activities will raise awareness about existing problems in achieving gender equality, celebrate women’s leadership and inclusion, feature real-life stories from women and men, girls and boys that promote equality by means of compelling content, impactful media collaborations, influencer engagement, and digital communication tools, alongside the evidence generated through various knowledge products. Where possible, efforts will also be aligned with government communications activities to leverage momentum and opportunities for reaching wider audiences.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Communications and Advocacy Analyst, and the Communications Team or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Communications Associate will:

• Draft communication materials: press releases, talking points, human impact stories jointly with project specialists, other communication products as required;
• Development, coordination and execution of the communications campaigns and events, special media projects;
• Content development (print, video) and design for different channels, coordination of the content distribution on UN Women platforms and partner/media platforms;
• Develop and manage the UN Women Ukraine CO website, provide oversight and quality assurance into its contents based on corporate requirements;
• Manage the CO social media accounts in line with corporate social media policy;
• Produce graphic images and texts for social media and CO website in Ukrainian and English;
• Produce regular analytics of the UN Women Ukraine social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram);
• Under supervision of the communications team, provide timely submission of multimedia products and knowledge products to the regional communications channels;
• Provide support to the communications team to develop, edit and translate the narratives for the Ukraine and Regional Office websites into English and Ukrainian language, including but not limited to stories, news releases, announcements, articles, subtitles to videos, and more;
• Provide support to the communications team on operational and administrative tasks;
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

Results/expected outputs:

• As an active UN Women team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UN Women and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
• An uninterrupted launch and operations of the CO website is ensured;
• Timely production of social media assets and supporting texts, timely scheduling and posting in accordance with the UN Women social media policy and communications requirements are ensured;
• Submission of monthly social media analytics reports with respective comments and recommendations is ensured;
• Support to professional production of multimedia materials and timely submission of UN Women communications products on the country, regional and HQ level are provided;
• Quality writing, editing and translation of communications materials from/to English and Ukrainian language are provided;
• Continuous and professional support to the communications team upon their requests is provided;
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment;
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.