Exciting Opportunity: United Nations Hiring Communications Officer with Attractive Salary 2025

Exciting Opportunity: United Nations Hiring Communications Officer with Attractive Salary 2025

• Job Opening ID: 263028
• Job Network : Public Information and Conference Management
• Job Family : Public Information
• Category and Level : Professional and Higher Categories, P-4
• Duty Station : All UN locations
• Department/Office : Rosters Administered by Department of Operational Support
• Date Posted : Sep 16, 2025
• Deadline : Oct 15, 2025

Discover an exciting career with the United Nations as a Communications Officer. This prestigious role offers an attractive salary, professional growth, and the chance to contribute to impactful global initiatives. Apply today for 2025 recruitment! The Communications Officer establishes and maintains relationships with senior management in her/his entity, with other Communications specialists in the organization, managers in other functional areas in the same entity, with a Crisis Management team when activated, and with staff to provide and clarify specific or thematic information, to exchange information, to seek guidance, provide updates on activities, coordinate communication activities, to discuss communications support to other functional areas, and to share information with staff, as necessary. The Communications Officer will report to the Chief of Section or Division, or Chief of Strategic Communications and/or to the Mission leadership.

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Responsibilities

• Provide analysis and advice to the management and/or UN colleagues on strategic communications issues such as opportunities for proactive communications, building support, managing crises and reputational risks, and strengthening information integrity.
• Provide insights and analysis from traditional, social, and digital media monitoring, including public narratives and areas of reputational risk to inform communications strategy.
• Develop and implement communications strategies that raise awareness, drive engagement, build support and have measurable impact with target audiences.
• Draft compelling narratives and messaging on the work of the UN that engage target audiences across different channels and platforms.
• Conduct mapping, outreach to and foster relationships with traditional and new media outlets.
• Develop media lines, including in crisis situations and on sensitive issues.
• Plan and coordinate press conferences, briefings, and media events.
• Act as a spokesperson for the organization, when required.
• Draft and produce communications products, such as press releases, press statements, web stories, reports, and infographics.
• Develop and implement compelling communications campaigns that engage and have measurable impact with target audiences through appropriate channels and platforms.
• Develop strategic communications partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to reach target audiences and maximize impact.
• Create content, conduct interviews and present news and programming for UN and/or community radio channels and podcasts.
• Create and update policy, guidance and/or training related to strategic communications, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of the latest trends in communications and maintain expertise in relevant and emerging technologies.
• Maintain confidentiality, integrity, and discreet handling of sensitive information in compliance with the UN data privacy, security requirements, and standards.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provides insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Manage and coordinate the activities of the team, including hiring, training, assigning tasks and responsibilities, evaluating performance, and ensuring that deadlines are met.
• Plan and manage required resources to implement the responsibilities, projects, and activities.
• Provide guidance to team members to promote professional development and a positive team culture.

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Requirements

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in communication, journalism, international relations, digital communications or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience

• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in communications, international relations, or other relevant areas, is required. Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this job opening, either English or French is required.
• The table below shows the minimum required level for each skill in these languages, according to the UN Language Framework (please consult https://languages.un.org for details).

Required Languages

Language	Reading	Writing	Listening	Speaking
English	UN Level II	UN Level II	UN Level II	UN Level II
French	UN Level II	UN Level II	UN Level II	UN Level II