Overview : SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK Working on a daily basis with the Strategic Engagement & Partnership Specialist and with overall reporting to the Deputy Head of the GFCR Grant Fund, the Communications and Events Consultant will perform the following tasks: 1. Communications - Maintain updated GFCR Briefing notes, speaking points, and communications materials.
- Develop and input to multimedia stories from the GFCR portfolio that have compelling narratives and reflect noteworthy achievements.
- Plan and update GFCR website content.
- Support the formation of target listings and contacts, including GFCR global and programmatic spokespeople/champions, and arrange check-in meetings, webinars, and relationship-building activities as needed.
- Delivering the draft of two communications campaigns.
- Input to GFCR communications workplan.
- Draft communications related reporting updates
2. Event Engagement Substantially contribute to the 2023-2024 event engagement strategy planning and execution. - Conduct mapping on relevant forums/events, including mandates, priority topics, participants and key lessons learned.
- Substantive support for organisation and execution of high-level event plans; including delivering briefs, engagement plans, speaking points, and other documents related to global event engagement.
- Deliver event collaboration and visibility opportunities, including engagement plans with key partners and sponsors, defining the scope of joint initiatives and providing substantive input.
- Deliver GFCR Convening Agents event engagement plans and related products.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Academic Qualifications: Masters’ degree (or equivalent/higher) in public relations, media relations, journalism, communications, marketing, political science, biodiversity, and/or other relevant field. Experience: - A minimum of 2 years’ experience developing audience-specific content for communications and marketing pieces, engagement and advocacy calls to action.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience developing story-telling content.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in curating corporate social media platforms, including using analytics tools.
- A minimum of 1 year experience managing and maintaining websites.
- Prior work experience in event planning is an asset.
- Demonstrable experience in producing and editing video and/or animations is an asset.
- Prior work experience at or familiarity with the work of UNDP and/or other UN agencies is beneficial.
- Knowledge of biodiversity conservation and/or innovative finance is an asset (e.g., marine conservation, blended finance, ecosystem-based management, etc.).
Language: Fluent in written and spoken English. Working knowledge of another UN language (French, Arabic, and/or Spanish) is considered an asset. Skills: - Demonstrated ability to pitch editorial and other content ideas, and provide rationale grounded in the propensity to directly support organizational objectives;
- Demonstrated ability to identify, collect and curate content to support storytelling in digital channels including web (including both blog and conversion pages), social media channels and email communications;
- Knowledge of sustainable finance topics (public/private); and
- Demonstrated knowledge of international development and world affairs in addition to a passion for the digital space and trends.
APPLICATION PROCESS AND EVALUATION Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document: - Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability - Personal CV or P11 indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and the names of at least three (3) professional references (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers); - Summary statement of competencies in relation to the TOR. - Portfolio sample of story-telling content, corporate social media platform posts curated, and/or samples of websites maintained. - Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price including professional fees and other professional expenses, such as insurance, taxes, etc.), supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. Available at http://procurement- notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=29916). Travel to Geneva, Switzerland (two trips - one in 2023 and another one in 2024, 5 days each trip) and Nairobi, Kenya (5 days) in economy class must be included in the proposal; If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP. Failure to submit all the below mentioned documents may result in rejection of the application. For more information, please refer to UNDP Jobs page as follows: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=111781 |