UNDP Recruitment In Nigeria September-October, 2012
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
UNDP JOB VACANCY FOR NATIONAL EXPERT MEDIA
JOB TITLE: NATIONAL EXPERT MEDIA
JOB LOCATION : NIGERIA
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Senior Media Expert is expected to:
- Advice on media involvement in elections, the bottom-up legitimacy parts of democratization and governance
- Planning, designing and implementing of internal and external strategies for communications and outreach
- Maintain relationships with media particularly the Non-Governmental media organizations through Component Sectoral Working Group
- Manage the Media component of the DGD Project
- Substantively certify media related sub-contracted works
- Carry out any other duties as assigned by the Project Director.
- Provides advise on media involvement in elections, the bottom-up legitimacy parts of democratization and governance focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Advise UNDP, JDBF partners, other national institutions, beneficiaries and sub-contractors on media
- Provision of advice to the Project Director on the media component of the project to advice the Project Management Board in its strategic planning and decision-making
- Identification of sources of information related to media and democratization issues
- Identification of best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to programme country policy goals
- Support to development of policies and institutions that will address the country problems and needs in collaboration with the Government and other strategic partners
- Effective supervision and achievement of deliverables from all media related activities.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Advanced university degree (Masters) in the area of Mass Communication, Language Arts, Journalism, Political Science preferably with elements of social sciences, democratic governance and development.
- Experience:
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in planning and implementing media activities preferably in relation to electoral reforms and democratic processes
- Work experience in democratic governance, including electoral issues, dealing with: (a) policy dialogue and advisory work (b) leadership and management of research and analysis (c) design and execution of capacity development programmes (d) project management, including the leadership of multi-disciplinary expert teams, preferably funded by development partners (UN or other) and (e) promotion of stakeholder/community awareness of and participation in democratic governance.
- Familiarity with the media landscape in Nigeria
- Experience in working with the media or in the development of public affairs strategies or programming will be a strong advantage. Skills in training, process facilitation, strategic planning, and partnership-building.
- Proven track record of advising, organizing and supervising public awareness activities partnering with media organizations capacity-building projects.
- Excellent PC user skills: word processing, spreadsheets, databases and web-based research.
- Ability to travel within Nigeria and overseas.
- Language Requirements:
- Strong skills in written communications in English particularly in preparing issue-based papers or reports.
- Excellent spoken English is required as well as fluency in one Nigerian language.
- UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture.
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Application Deadline : 03-Oct-2012
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