Great Opportunity: UN Home-Based Associate Digital Communications Consultant

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Great Opportunity: UN Home-Based Associate Digital Communications Consultant

Job Opening ID: 256357
Job Network : Public Information and Conference Management
Job Family : Public Information
Category and Level : Consultants, CON
Duty Station : NEW YORK
Department/Office : Resident Coordinator System
Deadline : Apr 14, 2025

The United Nations seeks a dynamic and creative Home-Based Associate Digital Communications Consultant. Contribute to impactful global initiatives by developing and implementing engaging digital content strategies. Leverage your expertise to amplify the UN’s message, reach diverse audiences, and foster positive change from the comfort of your home office. The position reports to a Communications Officer and is under the overall supervision of the Chief of CRRS.

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Responsibilities

Provides first-level technical support to UNCT website managers, ensuring smooth operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the overall UNCT website platform.
Support the coordination with external and UN stakeholders to implement updates, build or migrate content, resolve technical issues, and integrate UN INFO and e-reports into UNCT websites.
Perform quality assurance tasks for platform enhancements, ensuring compliance with UN standards on security, accessibility, and multilingual content delivery, translating content as relevant.
Monitor website performance indicators, including user engagement, traffic analytics, and platform functionality, to inform data-driven improvements.
Contribute to the maintenance of governance frameworks, including institutional knowledge best practices, operational guidelines and inventories for UNCT websites. Task 2: Enhance the UNSDG and DCO Global Websites
Support the development, enhancement, and maintenance of the UNSDG and DCO global websites, including interactive digital reports such as the annual UNSDG chair’s e-report.
Ensure editorial and technical quality assurance, applying best practices in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), accessibility, and data visualization to maximize audience engagement.
Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze digital engagement trends, and provide insights to optimize the UNSDG global website’s reach and effectiveness.

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Requirements

Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in communication, journalism, international relations, digital marketing, computer science, or a related ﬁeld is required.
A ﬁrst-level university degree in combination with two years of additional relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
A minimum of two years (four years with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in public information, journalism, international relations, digital marketing, web development or related areas is required.
Experience working with technical developers and content creators to deploy multilingual websites using Drupal or comparable Content Management Systems (CMS) is required.
Experience drafting content for websites and social media channels in a professional capacity to mobilize multilateral collaboration is required.
Experience in performing quality assurance reviews and monitoring and evaluation of website performance using Google Analytics or comparable tools is desirable.
Experience developing data visualizations for website and social media outlets using Power BI, Tableau, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva or comparable tools is desirable.
Experience building and supporting online collaboration platforms using Microsoft 365 or comparable productivity software is desirable.