UN Women: Communications Clerk, Baghdad, Iraq, National Consultant, Local post for the Nationals of Iraq

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.

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.  

UN Women Iraq Country Office (ICO) main office is based in Baghdad, and a sub-office is in Erbil. ICO aims to strengthen the UN response in addressing priorities for gender equality and women empowerment by developing and implementing innovative approaches and supporting governments and civil society organizations. ICO programming focuses on four main strategic goals, including women political participation, humanitarian action, economic empowerment, and Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). UN Women ICO is adopting an innovative approach to implementing its projects and activities aligned with the global action plan and parallel with its strategic notes.

Under the overall supervision of the Country Representative of the UNW Iraq Country Office in Baghdad, the clerk will be reporting to the Communications and Partnership Assistant and supported by the Executive/Programme Associate. The consultant will be partially embedded in the National Directorate for Iraqi Women (NDIW) to support the Directorate with the formulation and implementation of the communications and advocacy strategies to increase and widen outreach of the efforts of the Directorate and the women’s machinery to achieve the national vision for Iraqi women. 

• Provide background information for the development of a communication strategy; 
• Provide logistical support to advocacy efforts and campaigns by organizing roundtable discussions, press conferences, and other publicity events and providing inputs to briefing materials and press releases, as necessary. 

• Gather identifying storylines and achievements within the country  
• Draft press releases, articles, key messages and other advocacy materials;  
• Review translations, contact with printers and other suppliers to ensure production; 
• Maintain library database of reference materials and photos; 

• Gather information for the development of content for the NDIW website and social media channels; 
• Update the website and social media channels, as required; 
• Maintain files, databases and systems relevant to the digital presence. 

• Contribute to the identification of best practices and lessons learned; 
• Organize trainings and workshops on communication practices; 

This is an office-based consultancy. As part of this assignment, field visits and travel might be required and travel costs where applicable will be covered by UN Women in accordance with applicable rules. 

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

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• Ability to create, edit and present information in clear and presentable formats, using appropriate IT functionality. 
• Knowledge of social media and communication strategies and methods.
• Skills in video creation and production. 
• Good knowledge in AI and designing tools. 
• Ability to identify relevant events and stories and communicate them to a mass audience. 
• Good multimedia skills. 

• Completion of secondary education is required. 
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Public Relations or Journalism is desirable.  

• At least 4 years of progressively responsible experience in providing support to the formulation and implementation of internal and external communications and advocacy strategies and related plans is required.
• Experience in the use of social media and digital communication is required. 
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.

Fluency in English and Arabic is required. 

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

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