Communications Consultant – UNEP GEF C&W Unit at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Communication Strategy:
• Conduct consultations with internal & external stakeholders to finalize the draft communications strategy
• Develop annual plan and calendar of events and communication requirements in line with the UNEP and GEF policy requirements and expectations, e.g. press release for all new projects, high visibility at key international events, use of GEF and UNEP logos and alignment with brand and visibility policies etc.
• Produce guidance and SOPs for key communications workflows 2 Communications
• Task Force: The consultant will, in collaboration with the communications UNV:
• Support the operations of the newly revamped “communications task force”.
• Assist the identification of a series of communities of practice from across the portfolio.
• Support meetings of the Task Force and Communities of Practice to facilitate group discussions.
• Use the Communities of Practice to identify future webinar / panel events linked to 2.3 below.
• Review and provide support to communication strategies of FSP and MSP projects across the portfolio, including support to development of communications inputs to project proposals and oversight and quality control of communications activities of projects under implementation.
• Webinar and events series: Geneva is the central hub for Chemicals and Waste work globally. It hosts the Secretariats of the BRS and Minamata Conventions, the GFC Secretariat, the UNEP Chemicals and Health Branch, WHO, IPCC Secretariat, UNITAR and other key stakeholders in the C&W World. As such Geneva is a focus of international meetings where the unit often organizes meetings, events, and expert group discussions forums. A number of key project executing partners (GGKP, KRU unit in C&H Branch, WHO) are based in Geneva which provides an opportunity to explore opportunities for more integrated planning to events where the work of the unit can be showcased. The consultant will therefore support the following activities:
• Guide Communications UNV in organization of events linked to major inter-governmental meetings, organize events, including identify key speakers, publicize events, facilitate events.
• Develop a programme of webinar events focusing on key topics, including the GEF 9 strategy development
• Provide metric analysis of the events in terms of numbers of participants per event (min 500 as target), geographic distribution, stakeholder distribution, gender distribution.
• Provide a lessons-learnt analysis on how events can be used more effectively in future.
• Support the unit Senior Task Manager in organization and delivery of localized events such as Programme development meetings, consultations with BRS / Minamata Sec, joint meetings with WHO and other partners and, internal briefings to UNEP units and Divisions.
• Monitoring and Progress Controls Reporting lines: The consultant will be under the direct supervision of the GEF Portfolio Manager. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the Communications UNV based in Nairobi and for day-to-day administrative issues be supervised by the Senior Task Manager (P4) in the GEF unit. The detailed Communications Calendar will include deliverables by month.
• The workplan will be reviewed jointly with the Portfolio Manager and Communications UNV on a monthly basis. Report on the delivery of the workplan will be prepared at the end of each calendar month in combination with the monthly progress report to monitor and identify issues.

Qualifications/special skills

• A bachelor's degree in communications/science communication or other relevant area is required.
• An advanced degree in the same areas is desirable.
• At least two (2) years of working experience in communications and awareness raising on environmental pollution topics at international level is required.
• At least five (5) years of working experience in the same areas is desirable.
• Awareness of multi-lateral process is required. Experience in intergovernmental processes is an advantage.