The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been working in Haiti since June 28, 1973. The UNDP is part of the United Nations system along with 17 other agencies also present in the country. Its presence is defined by a basic agreement with the Government of Haiti, which sets out the basic conditions under which the program will support the Government in the implementation of its development projects.
UNDP supports the Government of Haiti in its long-term approach to sustainable development by supporting capacity building of national institutions, the local private sector and communities in Haiti to better prepare the country’s future and build a strong and resilient nation.
UNDP interventions are based on a Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is grounded in UNDP’s ongoing commitment to eradicating poverty, support countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. It envisions bold goals, making a difference to millions of lives, including through tackling multidimensional poverty, energy access, elections participation and development financing. It explains how UNDP will develop our six signature solutions – powered by digitalization, innovation and development financing – for greater impact. In order to achieve this goals, communication is key.
The role of the Country Office Communications Unit is to adopt UNDP’s global communication strategy to a local context and the Country Office development priorities. Through the production of high quality communication materials and innovative use of relevantly targeted communication channels (internal and external), the communications team works collaboratively to position UNDP as a leader in the development arena, promote visibility of UNDP program outcomes/development results, mobilize support for Sustainable Development Goals in the country, and practice delivery as one UN.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the DRR, the Communications Analyst implements the corporate communications strategy, as well as provides inputs to the design, management and implementation of the Country Office communications and publication strategies, which are geared to influence the development agenda, promote public and media outreach, and mobilize political and financial support for UNDP.
The Communications Analyst supervise and lead the communications staff of the country office and maintains a regular working relationship with the Regional Communications Adviser. The Communications Analyst works in close collaboration with the Programme and Operations teams, staff of other UN Agencies, UNDP Communications Region and HQ staff, government officials, international and local media, subject matter experts, donors, and civil society to ensure successful implementation of UNDP’s communication strategy in the Country Office.
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
1.) Implement internal/external communication strategies and outreach and contribute to their development.
Example of Duties: • Prepare and conduct communications needs assessments for the country office (e.g., for projects, the country programme, and corporate change initiatives).
• Draft and edit the country office communications and outreach strategy based on country office strategic priorities and the UNDP External Communications Action Plan.
• Provide communication input during the project and programme formulation stage to integrate communication needs and strategies in all aspects of UNDP development program.
• Maintain increased coverage and understanding of the UNDP’s work in the country or practice area through local and global media stories as guided by the UNDP External Communications Action Plan.
2.) Implement the country office publications strategy and plan based on the corporate publications policy.
Example of Duties: • Identify and develop storylines for publications, and draft substantive articles that contribute to and generate conversations on key development issues.
• Coordinate and manage the country office publication activities, such as content management in line with corporate guidelines.
• Liaison with and maintain a database of contact details for journalists.
3.) Provide technical support to UNDP digital communications in country office that includes social media, web site, intranet, and CO web-based knowledge management system.
Example of Duties: • Provide support in implementing country office digital communication strategy.
• Generate content for the web site and other social media platforms to ensure consistency and better outreach.
4.) Implement UNDP’s campaign initiatives to engage different stakeholders (i.e., government, donors, media and public) and increase awareness of UNDP’s mandate and goals.
Example of Duties: • Promote and maintain public information campaigns on UNDP activities.
• Collect and package information for donor review in collaboration with programme staff and supervisor to support campaign and advocacy initiatives.
• Organize roundtable discussions, press conferences, briefing sessions, interviews, launches to engage stakeholders.
• Support “One UN” agenda in line with UNDP’s Campaign and Advocacy agenda.
• Ensure access of journalists to subject-matter experts and UNDP spokespeople; and provide newsworthy information to the national public.
5.) Assist in leading the effort of country office’s knowledge management and dissemination.
Example of Duties: • Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme country goals and activities.
• Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice including corporate communications repositories.
• Provide training, consultancy, and advice to UNDP staff on internal and external knowledge management.
• Maintain UNDP’s Intranet on country office activities for internal knowledge sharing; and share relevant knowledge products with external stakeholders through corporate website.
• Work with the Programme teams to ensure all knowledge products are captured, updated, readily available and in the right order, as and when necessary.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Core: Full list of UNDP Core Competencies can be found here | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achieve Results: | LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Think Innovatively: | LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Learn Continuously | LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Adapt with Agility | LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Act with Determination | LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Engage and Partner | LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Enable Diversity and Inclusion | LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making | |||||||||||||||||||||||
People Management (Insert below standard sentence if the position has direct reports.)
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site. Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
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VI. Keywords
Advocacy
Public relations
Media relations
Knowledge management
Digital communications