Media and Political Specialist - UNRWA
- Posting Title: Media and Political Specialist - Consultant
- Department/Office: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
- Duty Station: HQ Gaza
- Posting Period: 13 September 2023 - 29 September 2023
- Job Opening Number: 23-UNRWA - Human Resources - Gaza-218014-Consultant
- Staffing Exercise N/A
Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyses information contained in communications and publications received from different sources; maintains up-to-date knowledge of events relating to political issues related to the UNRWA as well as the region while evaluating the results and impact of such various communications activities.
- Provides communications advice, expertise, and operational support to UNRWA’s media advisor, on a range of public affairs issues, methods and approaches; develops strategic partnerships with key constituencies to elicit support for promotional objectives during various phases of an operation.
- Assists senior officials with briefing notes, background papers and talking points related to UNRWA issues and communications.
- Prepares summaries of articles from a wide variety of sources and draft various correspondence and sections of relevant reports.
- Monitors political, socio-economic, and other politically relevant developments.
- Systematically follows through and retrieves, highlights and compiles information from a wide variety of information sources; prepares input for the electronic database and the internet and co-operate with research institutes and organizations in collecting data.
- Prepares various reports, presentations, tables, lists, charts, data sets, and/or diagrams for information to facilitate the in-depth analysis of the retrieved information by the supervisor and other users.
- Researches, compiles, and presents basic information for use in preparing and producing communications issues.
- Assists in formulating policy guidance on strategic communications and public information.
- Assists in identifying and monitoring substantive aspect of the work of the Division in various regions/countries. Selects and evaluates a variety of documents, summarizes pertinent material, collects, and analyses data and prepares background materials for assessment papers, studies, briefs and reports.
Qualifications:
- BA in Journalism or Political Science.
- At least five years of experience in related field.
Languages
Excellent command of spoken and written English and Arabic.