Communication Specialist, International Consultant, Home-Based

Background:

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.

Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women seeks to recruit a competent Communications Specialist consultant to develop and execute upon need media materials related to women’s empowerment and women’s leadership in Lebanon.

The consultant will be reporting to Women’s Political Participation Programme Manager who will serve as the supervisor and primary focal point for this consultancy and will be supported by programme assistant, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues. The consultant will be working across the Women’s Political Participation (WPP), Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) programmes.

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The candidate selected for this consultancy will be expected to develop and execute a robust media campaign to disseminate key findings and insights of a study on women’s participation in political parties in Lebanon and support other programmes in their communication needs. The aim is to reach a diverse audience and maximize the impact of the study.

Scope of Work:

1. Managing the website of the Feminist Platform
   supporting the platform in producing all needed media materials, including and not limited to designing their press releases and uploading it on its website and social media handles, update the social media handles with new materials upon need, developing visuals and short videos and infographics for the FP when needed, and developing its communication and messaging, designing reports and materials
    
2. Designing reports and power point presentations
   Design reports, portfolio documents, briefing papers, power point presentations etc. and produce dissemination plans for these reports.
    
3. Producing media materials
   Draft a full communication plan that could include producing videos or testimonies, reals, visual designs, motion graphic videos, photographs, and suggest a social media plan for dissemination.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
4. Developing and implementing comprehensive communication strategies that align with the relevant programme goals and objectives.
    
5. Support event preparations from a communication side:
   - Producing the invitations, Power Point presentations, banners, backdrops or any visual material needed for specific events.
   - Creating a banner template that can be used by UN Women Lebanon and its partners for various:                                                                                  
    
6. Developing project joint branding – and application of branding to project visibility collaterals to support the visibility of the project.
    
7. Developing a generic donor briefing template in Word and PowerPoint formats.
    
8. Developing a micro page on UN Women Lebanon highlighting the project and prominently featuring the joint branding and acknowledgment of all stakeholders. As well as frequently updating the webpage with relevant stories and publications.
    
9. Organizing training sessions to train implementing partners on project specific communications guidelines, as well as empowering advocacy tools.
    
10. Supporting in the writing and dissemination of press releases and media advisories throughout the duration of the project.
     
11. Producing and disseminating human-interest stories and profiles of women and girls from diverse vulnerable groups impacted by the crisis. The stories will be presented in interactive formats such as photo essays, videos, and interactive webpages and disseminated on UN Women Lebanon and partners websites.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencie