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Last checked: 3 hours ago
Closing date: Thursday, 9 July 2026
Country: Ukraine
Duty station: Ukraine
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Not explicit in source
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For every child, the right to a Future
The situation of children and young people in Ukraine continues to be shaped by protracted war, deepening humanitarian needs and related response, as well as an ambitious reform and recovery agenda. The security situation is volatile and unpredictable, with attacks impacting urban areas, civilian infrastructure and essential services. The operating environment is also shaped by geopolitical dynamics, which create opportunities and constraints for advancing child and youth-related rights.
In this context, UNICEF Ukraine’s response includes a footprint across the country, through four field offices, and a large-scale humanitarian response that connects with recovery programming in frontline regions and beyond. UNICEF supports national child and youth focused reforms, while translating these into action through a locally owned and led recovery.
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Purpose for the job:
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring advocacy and communication related strategies and associated products and activities. The goal is to target and influence relevant audiences, including the public, to build child rights champions, by promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in Ukraine and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
Within the delegated authority and the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be accountable for all or assigned areas of the following major duties and end results.
1.Communication strategy
Ensure that Ukraine Country Office has a clear communication approach and associated work plan to support advocacy and country programme objectives and influence target audiences to effect change for every child. This includes strengthening public and political will in support of UNICEF's mission and objectives and enhance the organization’s credibility and brand.
2.Digital Content Production and Oversight
Ensure that UNICEF Ukraine has an effective digital content production plan and capacity that results in engaging and powerful content to strengthen core advocacy and programme priorities in the country, while being agile to respond to real-time events.
3.Media relations
Ensure that UNICEF Ukraine has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of journalists and media outlets covering all media – print, TV, radio, web etc. – and a successful process of communicating and maintaining regular contact and close collaboration with the media to communicate the story of UNICEF's cooperation to a wider audience.
4.Networking and partnerships
Ensure that UNICEF Ukraine has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of individuals, groups, organizations and fora (including Government, UN, and bilateral counterparts), whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the advocacy and communication objectives of the communication strategy.
5.Celebrities and special events
Ensure that UNICEF Ukraine has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of appropriate, nationally-known personalities who have been identified, engaged and support UNICEF’s effort and who actively participate in special events and activities that support country programme goals.
6.Global priorities and campaigns
In addition to local/national campaigns, ensure that UNICEF Ukraine has an effective process in place for integrating and taking action on UNICEF’s global communications priorities and campaigns, both disseminating these elements in a locally-appropriate way, as well as providing/enabling coverage of the work in the country for global use.
7.Resource mobilization support
Ensure that global and country level fund-raising activities are supported by effective advocacy and communication strategy and activities.
8.Management
Ensure that human resources (the communication team) and financial resources (budget planning, management and monitoring) are both effectively managed and optimally used.
9.Monitoring and evaluation
Ensure that communication baselines are established against which the achievement of objectives of the communication strategy are regularly evaluated; analysis is undertaken to continuously improve the effectiveness of communication strategy, approach and activities; results and reports are prepared and shared on a timely basis.
10.Capacity building and support
Ensure that the Representative/Senior or Regional Communication Officer and the country programme team are provided with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of external relations communication as required; opportunities are identified and addressed for building communication capacity among country communication team, media and other relevant partners.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Job Description Communication Specialist Level 3_Ukraine CO.doc
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