UNHCR Italy Jobs 2022-23 Vacancies at UNHCR Careers Portal 

UNHCR Jobs in Italy record 2022-23 Job Description

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to carry out their duties as mirrored of their job description. They accomplish that inside their delegated authorities, in retaining with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which incorporates the UN structure, UN staff legal guidelines and guidelines, UNHCR insurance coverage policies and Administrative instructions as properly as to related accountability frameworks. as properly as, staff members are required to discharge their tasks in a method in retaining with the core, purposeful, cross-purposeful and managerial competencies and UNHCR¿s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for variety.

Duties
– assist the event and implementation of communications strategies for international areas, circumstances and particular tasks; decide thematic priorities and goal audiences to fulfill UNHCR¿s worldwide communications goals.
– Monitor information and in style developments to insert UNHCR¿s messaging into ongoing conversations; decide key moments for proactive communications.
– Forge strategic partnerships with people and organizations who would possibly additionally assist produce and promote UNHCR content material, actions and messaging as properly as to current evaluation insights to increase communications; promote the work of engaged companies and civil society actors.
– Contribute to enchancment of tales-pushed and authoritative content material to information the narrative on compelled displacement and current UNHCR¿s impression (e.g. interviews, press releases, flagship experiences, speeches), create emotive storytelling to generate empathy (e.g. tales, multimedia content material) and mobilize movement by signposting concrete steps people can take to assist refugees (e.g. digital diplomacy, movement-pushed campaigns, fundraising).
– guarantee content material created reaches most impression by growing strategies for distribution from the outset, boosting the visibility of our content material on related UNHCR channels and inserting it on exterior channels.
– carefully monitor the implementation of communications tasks and regulate accordingly. Benchmark the outcomes of communications tasks in opposition to set success indicators; construct on communications successes.

extra duties for information and media roles:
– Develop and implement communications strategies, campaigns, occasions and utterly different initiatives in assist of UNHCR’s strategic goals, collectively with its want for main share of voice on refugee and associated issues, and guarantee safety of refugee circumstances of their nation or area in worldwide and home media.
– evaluation, put together, fact-look at, edit and produce expert media and communications supplies for goal audiences and guarantee their well timed dissemination by way of UNHCR’s communications channels, making sure highest extreme quality requirements.
– Draft media releases, statements and media briefing notes, and safe clearances, engaged on the facet of related focal factors and retaining delicate to wants of each inside and exterior audiences.
– Act as a spokesperson for UNHCR, organizing press occasions, dealing with interviews requests and offering responses to requests from media regarding UNHCR and its work.
– work together with journalists and public audiences by way of social media channels.
– usually current ideas for communications initiatives and regarded expert communications advice to senior staff of UNHCR.
– Undertake missions and discipline journeys with media and utterly different official agency in assist of UNHCR and its work.
– Actively preserve media relations for UNHCR, making sure that media (and utterly different important exterior stakeholders, reminiscent of governments, embassies, NGOs and many others.) are briefed usually on factors with significance to UNHCR, and have entry to information and UNHCR expertise.
– put together and handle communications budgets.
– guarantee alignment with UNHCR¿s worldwide branding and messaging.
– frequently preserve and improve communications expertise, retaining abreast of rising platforms and devices, and systematically reviewing media impression outcomes and utterly different measurement devices for studying features.

extra duties for information and media roles contained in the worldwide Communications Service
– Oversee coordination of communications work for his or her designated areas and thematic factors, working carefully with communications staff in bureaux and nation places of work and in collaboration with the senior communications officers/advisers in that area.
– handle a massive community of relationships in any respect ranges throughout bureaux, divisions and places of work (collectively with the supervisor office) to make sure well timed inside information sharing as a basis for grounded communications, and to assemble consensus round communications proposals.
– preserve shut involvement in communications recruitment and teaching wants for assigned areas, retaining in thoughts UNHCR¿s goals of using and retaining the world¿s main humanitarian communications expertise.

extra duties for information and media roles inside nation places of work
– Act as a consequence of the foremost interface on communications issues between their nation office and the worldwide Communications Service.
– Act as a consequence of the lead for disaster communications work for his or her nation, alerting the GCS/information & Media part¿s disaster communications finish in menace factors and making sure shut coordination.

extra duties for information and media roles inside Regional Bureaux
– usually current ideas for communications initiatives and regarded expert communications advice to senior Bureau staff and Representatives of nation Operations overseen by the Bureau.
– Oversee information and information gathering and sharing of information with a view to making sure the Bureau¿s authority as a centre of up thus far information and expertise regarding its area.
– assist the Senior administration of the Bureau to implement advocacy goals for the Bureau, and oversee enchancment of supporting communications strategies for these, engaged on the facet of staff of the worldwide Communications Service and communications staff inside the area.
– guarantee Bureau staff are aware of UNHCR¿s worldwide positioning wants.

– carry out utterly different associated duties as required.

minimal skills
Years of expertise / diploma stage
For P3/NOC – 6 years related expertise with Undergraduate diploma; or 5 years related expertise with Graduate diploma; or 4 years related expertise with Doctorate diploma

discipline(s) of education
Journalism; worldwide Relations; Political Science;
Communications; Public information; Media
film / Video; or utterly different related discipline.
(discipline(s) of education marked with an asterisk* are important)

Certificates and/or Licenses
not specified

related Job expertise
important
minimal 4years of expert expertise in journalism and/or communications, primarily at worldwide stage.

fascinating
expertise growing and implementing communications strategies. strong social media presence. expertise engaged on advocacy campaigns. expertise working with goodwill ambassadors and utterly different extreme-profile influencers. expertise with mannequin administration. expertise with measurement and evaluation, particularly offering evaluation of media safety, social media engagement, internet visitors, and many others. expertise reporting, writing, modifying for magazines, newspapers and web websites. expertise using digital asset administration methods. expertise with digital analytics and efficiency reporting.

purposeful expertise
Required expertise will differ in response to the exact nature of the function, location, and many others. however might embrace:
CO-Drafting and Documentation
CO-worldwide Media Contacts
CO-Preparation of key messages/talking factors/speeches
CO-Spokesperson expertise
CO-Strategic Communication
CO-Public talking
CO-Video manufacturing for digital platforms (collectively with information organizations)
CO-Journalism (incl. print, broadcast, pictures, video, structure & graphics)
CO-modifying
CO-Digital content material manufacturing
(purposeful expertise marked with an asterisk* are important)

Language requirements
For worldwide expert and discipline Service jobs: information of English and UN working language of the responsibility station if not English.
For nationwide expert jobs: information of English and UN working language of the responsibility station if not English and native language.
For regular Service jobs: information of English and/or UN working language of the responsibility station if not English.

All UNHCR workforce members should individually and collectively, contribute in direction of a working ambiance the place every particular person feels protected, and empowered to carry out their duties. This consists of by demonstrating no tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment collectively with sexual harassment, sexism, gender inequality, discrimination and abuse of power.

As people and as managers, all ought to be proactive in stopping and responding to inappropriate conduct, assist ongoing dialogue on these issues and talking up and searching for steerage and assist from related UNHCR sources when these factors come up.

it is a daily Job Description for all UNHCR jobs with this job title and grade stage. The Operational Context might include extra important and/or fascinating skills regarding the exact operation and/or place. Any such requirements are integrated by reference on this Job Description and might probably be thought of for the screening, shortlisting and assortment of candidates.
Desired Candidate Profile

The incumbent of this place will probably be anticipated to have strong management and administration expertise (each human and monetary sources), political acumen, confirmed written and oral communication expertise in each English and Italian, which is ready to probably be key for MCO to proceed to information the refugee narrative whereas promoting engagement and mobilization for PoCs in Italy. additionally, the Communications Officer will assist UNHCR’s campaigning and media safety at a world stage whereas making sure administration and oversight of the Comms crew in Italy.