Summary

​​UNICEF is seeking a highly experienced professional in advocacy and internal communications. The consultant will enhance Giga’s visibility within UNICEF and the broader development community, ensuring a coherent and compelling narrative around Giga’s goals and achievements.

Your responsibilities will be…

Developing an Advocacy Strategy:

• Create a comprehensive advocacy strategy articulated around a clear theory of change, a powerful narrative, and key messages.
• Identify key fora and events where Giga should be showcased.

Enhancing Internal Communications:

• Develop an internal communication plan to enhance knowledge sharing and collaboration within Giga and with UNICEF’s Programme Group.
• Facilitate knowledge exchange through initiatives like a Giga Academy or Masterclasses.

Photo Contest implementation:

• Support the communication team with the photo contest execution.
• Leverage experience in Geneva Art scene to identify various partners across the photo contest value chain.
• Identify and partner with Geneva Media outlets specializing in print and outdoor to drive awareness of photo contest.
• Identify judges to participate in the selection process.
• Support the Events team in the execution of the photo contest event with various partners

Communications for Resource Mobilization:

• Coordinated efforts with communication team to develop targeted campaigns, communications material, and brand messaging aligned to key stakeholders.
• Integrated support with partnerships team to support resource mobilization goals.
• Support partnerships and fundraising team to enhance donor communication and fundraising.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Map and engage key stakeholders, including potential partners, beneficiaries, and influencers.
• Organize and support high-level meetings and events to promote Giga’s mission.

Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role: Advocacy and Internal Communications Specialist (ToR).

To qualify for this position, you will have…

• An advanced degree in Marketing, Communication or Journalism. *An undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline combined with an additional 2 years of professional experience in project management may substitute for a master’s degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience working within the Geneva ecosystem and demonstrable networking skills within media, arts, and academia in Geneva.
• Strong background in developing and implementing advocacy strategies.
• Experience working within UNICEF across country and HQs is considered an asset.
• Proficiency in managing internal communications and knowledge sharing is required.
• Experience in stakeholder mapping and engagement.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

Travel

• The consultant is expected to travel to Barcelona, Spain on two (2 trips), for a stay of 3-4 nights.
• The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.

Payment details and further considerations

• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
• The consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance.
• The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa.
• UNICEF will facilitate the process for obtaining local permits exclusively for the consultant, excluding any dependents.
• This consultancy is based in Geneva.

How to apply:

• Interested applicants are required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee. Please see the financial proposal template here: Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance
• Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.

About our team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.