The Digital Strategy Section (DSS) within the Division of Communication comprises Web, Social Media and Multimedia teams working together to create compelling public-facing content and to provide digital services within the organization. Through multiple platforms and in multiple languages, DSS draws attention to the many facets of UNICEF’s work, encouraging public support, participation and action, as well as ensuring greater transparency and accountability. Web stories, blog entries, photo essays, Facebook posts, Twitter campaigns, and videos for distribution via UNICEF.org, YouTube, news media and other outlets and platforms – all are a part of our digital storytelling. By measuring and testing our efforts, we also use data to inform content and engagement choices.
All around the world young people are increasingly engaging with social media and digital tools – which holds both opportunities and risks for their rights. In response, the Voices of Youth Citizens project gathers timely and relevant information to help young people, partners, policy makers, and the public at large, understand the opportunities and risks that social media and digital tools present to young people in developing countries. Voices of Youth Citizens forms part of the Digital Strategy Section in the Division of Communications at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) and was established following the findings of a paper Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in 2010, that there was insufficient knowledge about the use and impact of digital tools among children and young people in the Global South. Following this, the Berkman Center has served as a technical adviser on research and policy recommendations to the Voices of Youth Citizens initiative. In 2014, UNICEF and the Berkman Center established the Digitally Connected initiative which brings together academics, practitioners, young people, activists, philanthropists, government officials, and representatives of technology companies from around the world who, together, address the challenges and opportunities children and youth encounter in the digital environment.
In April 2014 Berkman Center and UNICEF co-hosted the Digitally Connected Symposium, which brought together 120-150 academics, practitioners, young people, activists, philanthropists, government officials, and representatives of technology companies from around the globe, this highly participatory and interactive event built upon a multi-year collaboration between the Berkman Center’s Youth and Media project and UNICEF through Voices of Youth Citizens. A second symposium was held in Argentina in December 2014 and third is planned for May 2016 in Chile.
DSS seeks to hire a consultant (Digitally Connected partnership coordinator) to support the development of Digitally Connected network and to coordinate activities and events emerging from the network. The consultant will work closely with the Voices of Youth team in New York Headquarters, as well as Digitally Connected members and partners to grow the network, ensure visibility, with the ultimate goals of stimulating discussion about the impact of digital on children’s rights and generating new information, ideas and insights on the issue.
For more information, see the attached TERMS OF REFERENCE.
Minimum requirements and competencies:
- Experience working with UNICEF & The Berkman Centre for Internet & Society.
- Expert knowledge of digital and social media growth and trends among children and youth globally and the impact on child rights.
- Knowledge of UNICEF’s mandate and work done in the area of child rights in the digital world.
- Extensive international contacts among diverse stakeholders working in the areas of child rights in the digital world.
- Experience in undertaking research: strong analytical skills and ability to examine sources critically based on methodology and sampling.
- Strong project management skills, as well as writing and editing skills.
How to apply:
Applications should be sent to: digitalstrategy@unicef.org by 9 November 2015. When sending to this mailbox, please ensure that the position you are applying for, ‘Digitally Connected partnership coordinator’, is quoted on the subject line. Applicants MUST submit their resume along with a signed and dated (not typed) UNICEF P-11. Please send details of the daily fee/rate (in USD) you are willing to accept for the performance of this job. Please state whether negotiable or non-negotiable. To download P11: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/Personal_History_P11.doc
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted. Non-US candidates must be in possession of an existing US G4 visa or be a US permanent resident/citizen.
In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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