National Communication Intern, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 6 months

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do for so long as we’re wanted. Selling the rights of each baby isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.

UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers various alternatives for skilled and private growth that may assist them reinforce a way of function whereas serving kids and communities the world over. We welcome everybody who needs to belong and develop in a various and passionate tradition.., coupled with a gorgeous compensation and advantages package deal.

Go to our website to study extra about what we do at UNICEF.

For each baby, help

At UNICEF, our main intention is to champion the rights of each baby, globally. We place particular emphasis on reaching essentially the most deprived and marginalized kids and households. In Lao PDR, our collaboration with authorities and civil society organizations focuses on making certain that baby rights, as enshrined within the Conference on the Rights of the Little one, are realized, thereby contributing to the nation’s broader growth objectives.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The Communication Intern will help the Communication staff in numerous aspects, taking part in a key function within the dissemination of knowledge and engagement with each inner and exterior stakeholders. This place is pivotal in enhancing our communication methods, making certain that our efforts in advocating for kids’s rights are successfully communicated and attain a broad viewers.

Description of Duties:

• Help in monitoring press protection of UNICEF in Lao PDR, and compile internet/press clippings and hyperlinks.
• Ship every day media updates.
• Help with translation of communication belongings resembling press releases and social media posts.
• Handle and manage the picture and video library, making certain that every one supplies are catalogued and simply accessible for numerous communication wants.
• Present logistical help for communications actions, together with coordinating bookings and managing schedules.
• Help the planning and execution of occasions, together with coordination with distributors, making ready occasion supplies, and helping with on-site logistics.
• Help with the administration and distribution of visibility supplies.
• Take part in staff conferences and contribute to the event of communication methods and plans.
• Carry out different associated duties as assigned by the supervisor to help the communications staff.

If you want to know extra about this place, please assessment the whole Phrases of Reference right here:  TOR_National Communication Intern.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

Minimal necessities:

• Training: Enterprise a level in a related space, e.g., communications, economics, social science, public administration, and every other Self-discipline related to the place.

• Language Necessities: Proficient in a minimum of one in every of UNICEF’s working languages: English, – Working Data AND – Laotian (Obligatory), Stage – Fluent 

Desirables:

• Conversant in and perceive Lao nationwide and/or financial growth points
• Conversant in multi-culture surroundings can be an asset
• Related expertise at nation stage, significantly in growth, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

 

For each Little one, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the safety of the rights of each baby, in all places, in every part it does and is remitted to help the belief of the rights of each baby, together with these most deprived, and our international workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, regardless of their race/ethnicity, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or every other standing.

UNICEF encourages purposes from all certified candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic backgrounds, and from individuals with disabilities, together with neurodivergence. We provide a big selection of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF gives cheap lodging all through the recruitment course of. When you require any lodging, please submit your request by the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Do you have to be shortlisted, please get in contact with the recruiter on to share additional particulars, enabling us to make the required preparations prematurely.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station is required for IP positions and will probably be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will probably be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, consultant, and welcoming workforce. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates are inspired to apply.

Authorities workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or needed inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause. 

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.

Humanitarian motion is a cross-cutting precedence inside UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is dedicated to remain and ship in humanitarian contexts. Due to this fact, all workers, in any respect ranges throughout all practical areas, could be referred to as upon to be deployed to help humanitarian response, contributing to each strengthening resilience of communities and capability of nationwide authorities.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the publish within the related practical space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Expertise Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.

Further details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.