Title: Senior External Relations Assistant
Company Name: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Draft briefing notes, press releases, bulletins, reports, newsletters and prepare any other public information material, as required
∎ Facilitate and accompany visits of foreign delegations, partner NGOs, donors and the media to refugee camps
∎ Draft and translate routine correspondence and texts.
∎ Assist with developing and implementing UNHCR's social media strategy conceptualize and pitch stories for UNHCR's global website.
∎ Ensure that public information materials including fact sheets, information brochures, briefing materials from the Branch Office, etc. are available.
∎ Organize visibility events (e.g. World Refugee Day) and liaise with partners, refugees and local communities on implementation.
∎ May be required to assist in compilation of weekly, monthly, annual/quarterly thematic reports, situations reports etc.
∎ Review media daily and ensure the office is kept informed of local developments.
∎ Provide information on UNHCR's activities to external partners.
∎ Respond to non-complex media queries and incoming correspondence.
∎ Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
∎ Perform other related duties as required.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Senior External Relations Assistant must have excellent communications skills, analytical and drafting abilities and the capacity to think and plan strategically and work independently, as well as the political awareness needed work in a complex and sensitive political and inter-agency environment.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 9 Jan 2024
Company Information:
∎ 28 Dec 2023
∎ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com