Home-Based Social Media Analyst Recruitment at UNDP
Location: Remote/ New York
Deadline: 14 September 2024
About the Position
UNDP is recruiting a Social Media Specialist to work on fulfilling UNDP’s Climate Hub social media and digital communications needs, in collaboration with the other communications specialists in the UNDP Climate Hub. This role entails acting as the main focal point for the Climate Hub’s social media channels, creating and maintaining a steady pipeline of content, developing and disseminating visual assets, managing the team’s visual resources, and providing social media support for key reports, campaigns and events.
The UNDP Climate Hub is responsible for:
- Thought leadership on Climate and to be the custodian of UNDP policy positions on Climate;
- Strategy and vision formulation;
- Pipeline development in coordination with the other hubs and the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit;
- Provision of integrated policy and programme support to Country Offices;
- Global engagement, advocacy in collaboration with BERA;
- Integration across thematic areas;
Duties and Responsibilities
- Act as the main focal point for UNDP Climate Hub’s social media channels, working in collaboration with the other communications specialists in the UNDP Climate Hub to promote and increase the outreach of the communications products they develop;
- Develop and implement the Climate Hub’s social media strategy, in line with the Hub’s communications strategy, mission and objectives;
- Draft, edit and post social media content, ensuring alignment with UNDP Climate Hub’s communications strategy and style guidelines;
- Enhance the online and social media presence of UNDP Climate Hub by scheduling and maintaining a steady pipeline of content;
- Propose new and innovative social media content for UNDP Climate Hub’s channels, based on current trends;
- Keep track of key international dates and establish a pipeline of topic-specific content, as needed;
- Support the communications team to manage content on different Trello boards where UNDP Climate Hub has a presence;
- Create monthly reports of UNDP Climate Hub’s social media channels performance, highlighting good practices and results;
- Create and disseminate visual assets including graphics and short videos to promote UNDP’s work on digital platforms;
- Collaborate with the Intelligence and Innovation pillar on promoting new reports and findings on social media channels;
- Manage the Flickr account of the UNDP Climate Hub by uploading new photos on a regular basis, in line with UNDP guidelines;
- Contribute to the development of digital advocacy campaigns that promote UNDP Climate Hub’s vision and strategic priorities to external audiences from a social media engagement perspective;
- Provide social media support during key events for the Climate Hub such as COP, Regional Climate Weeks, UNGA, and other important global milestones;
- Coordinate closely with UNDP’s BERA team to ensure linkages with UNDP corporate digital channels;
- Deliver trainings on social media best practices for colleagues working in the Climate Hub or at the regional or country levels as needed;
- Collaborate with communications specialists from the Energy, Nature, Chemical Waste and Vertical Funds Hubs on setting up best practices for joint social media channels.
Competencies
- Achieve Results: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
- Learn Continuously: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
- Adapt with Agility: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
- Act with Determination: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
- Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional competencies
- Communications
- Business Direction & Strategy
- Business Management
- Digital & Innovation
Job Requirements
- Advanced University degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in International Relations, Environmental Studies, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Information Technology, or other closely related fields; or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the above mentioned fields with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university.
- Minimum 2 (two) years (with master’s degree) or 4 (four) years (with bachelor’s degree) of experience in a media, digital communications or other fast-paced editorial environment is required.
- Strong understanding of and experience with digital communications in international organizations and/or non-profit organizations, particularly on social media.
- Experience with producing social media assets, including graphics and short videos.
- Experience and strong understanding of the wider digital and social media landscape, and how it relates to international organizations’
- Proven records of interest in global issues such as climate change and the work of the United Nations.
- Experience in drafting and editing engaging content for websites, social media, and other digital platforms.
- Familiarity with social media suites, tools and software, such as Hootsuite, Buffer, Canva, Mailchimp.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot technical issues on digital platforms.
- Proficiency in visual production software, such as Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro.
- Proven experience with climate or environmental work would be strongly desirable.
- Fluency in English is required.
- Fluency in additional UN languages will be considered an asset.
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