UNV Communication Assistant

UN Entity: ESCWA

Assignment context:The UN Volunteer is responsible to deliver media outputs in a timely manner, manage social media accounts, and provide excellent support to the media team.

Under the supervision of the Secretary of the Commission, the UN Volunteer is responsible to perform the following tasks:
• Provide assistance to cover in-house events and meetings:
• Compile summaries of content in a format that is tailored to external audiences;
• Gather quotes from speakers;
• Take photographs when needed;
• Assist in capturing short video messages from experts that highlight key messages;
• Support the drafting of press releases and/or new stories based on collected content;
• Support the drafting of press releases and/or new stories based on collected content;
• Support efforts to archive raw materials post-production and to archive the unit productions as a whole.
• Provide assistance to the social media team:
• Follow up on upcoming in-house events and meetings, liaise with divisions when information is missing;
• Support in maintaining a schedule of upcoming international days and global campaigns that should be reflected on ESCWA platforms;
• Prepare content in English and Arabic;
• Research appropriate visuals to be included with posts, editing them to the correct format when necessary.
• Prepare wrap-up reports following each event, monthly and quarterly.
• Produce media closeout reports:
• Monitor on daily basis the local, regional and international media outlets;
• Collect social mentions from different platforms;
• Draft media closeout reports including analysis following specific events.

Inclusivity statement: 
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin, or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements: 
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable Host Entity’s policy.