Social Media Specialist
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UN Women
- Career category: Comms/ Digital/ Media
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: International contract
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 01/01/2025
- Location: United States
Background:
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Key Functions and Accountabilities:
1. Oversee the Social Media Strategy for UN Women.
- Oversee the design and implementation of the global social media strategy for UN Women.
- Lead the conceptualization, design, planning, execution and evaluation of UN Women’s social media content.
- Lead an agile, news driven social media content and engagement strategy for UN Women’s social media channels by tapping into relevant social media conversation with impactful messaging.
2. Lead and implement the social media capacity building strategy.
- Lead on capacity building strategy for the global communication network in regard to UN Women branded social media accounts.
- Develop and continuously update guidelines and standards for the use of social media, both personally and professionally, by UN Women staff.
- Provide tailored, relevant guidance and assistance to country and regional office social media portfolios and build capacity globally for ongoing effective social media engagement.
3. Develop and implement the global communication campaign for UN Women.
- Provide expert input on social media elements of global campaigns, including vendor selection and management
- Oversee development of social media content package for large multi-lingual campaigns on a global level, including activation of global communication network.
- Develop and implement influencer engagement strategies.
4. Lead and manage the social media team.
- Recruit and performance manage, coach, mentor and manage social media staff and consultants. Mentor team members.
- Manage day-to-day operations of the social media team, including the budget, recruitment and performance management processes and relevant consultancy contracts.
- Lead the inputs of the social media team into the unit’s work plan.
5. Coordinate and facilitate partnership building.
- Represent UN Women in interagency groups focused on social media.
- Manage the relationship with platforms.
- Conduct partnership and influencer mapping and engagement strategy.
6. The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:
The Social Media Specialist supervises and leads a team comprising of several staff members and four consultants.
Requirements:
- A Master’s degree or equivalent in Communications, Journalism, International Affairs, Political Science, or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- At least 7 years of experience managing large-scale social media accounts at the international level is required.
- Experience in leading a mid-sized social media team, incl. recruitment and performance management is required.
- Fluency in English is required.
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