Strategy Consultant

Strategy Consultant
Reporting Line:

The Strategy Consultant will be assigned part time to the ÒIncreasing the resilience of both displaced persons (DPs) and host communities to climate change-related water challenges in Jordan and LebanonÓ project focusing on Jordan and will report to the national project coordinator.

Duties and responsibilities:

With delegated authority, the Communications Consultant will be responsible for the following duties:

• Drafting of press releases and stories in English/Arabic and share with ESCWA to disseminate and share on their social media platforms and ensuring posting on the UN-Habitat social media platforms as well.
• Ensure visual branding of the project for use in documentation and media, including proposing logo or visual identity for the project for approval by the project partners.
• Drafting the content and design of a project pamphlet for printing by UN-Habitat and its digital distribution.
• Uploading of products onto the UN-Habitat website and media channels.
• Feeding in and inputting information on the AF project website, with project baseline and results, including human interest stories related to fields visits, including photography during site visits.
• Communicating with project partners and stakeholders to identify and solicit human-interest stories.
• Collaborate with the project partners to produce outputs and infographics in English with Arabic summaries for dissemination, including in digital formats.
• Collaborating with UN ESCWA in the development of a project video on best practices/lessons learned, including video clips to help document pre- and post-interventions and field engagements in Jordan.
• Preparing human-interest stories through various media (video clips, photos, narratives), including taking photos/video clips related to field visits undertaken during the project, including travel to project sites to collect needed documentation and images from the field in coordination with project partners.
• Disseminating project impacts on social media in English and Arabic for posting and dissemination in coordination with UN-Habitat counterparts and other project partners. Support administrative arrangements and dissemination of project-related engagements in meetings.
• Contribute to the knowledge management processes (knowledge acquisition, storage, distribution and use);
• Produce and disseminate information including campaign materials on the project in conjunction with the Information Office.
• Coordinate and provide information and materials for partners to organize the World Habitat Day event on yearly basis.
• Ensure project visibility and implement awareness of the project with support of the project and the communication teams in the region.
  

Skills & Requirements

Advance degree in communication, journalism, web development or any other related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with additional two years of qualifying experience will be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

• Up to two years of progressively responsible experience in communication fields, public information, journalism, web development, graphic design, videography and/or related area is required.
• General awareness regarding water and climate change challenges facing the local communities in the Arab Region is desirable.
• Knowledge of communicating environmental issues is desirable.
• Experience in using Drupal, WordPress, Webflow, or any other content management system is desirable.
• Experience in overseeing video production is desirable.
• Experience in producing material for interactive knowledge management products (webpages, augmented and virtual reality products) is desirable.
• Conduct regular in-person meetings with the project team to discuss project-related affairs and acquire project updates from all team members. Additionally, attend site visits and workshops in coordination with the project team as necessary for effective communication purposes.