[Hiring] Individual Contractor on Digital Planning and Strategy @UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

Role Description

UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. This assignment will support the delivery of the Information Integrity projects through:

  • Project management duties including:
    • Planning, organizing, and strategic support to HQ and field-based activities.
    • Supporting research and analysis efforts for evidence-based decision making.
    • Providing expert guidance to pilot projects and country-operation initiatives.
    • Supporting external engagement and outreach opportunities.
    • Drafting messaging, talking points, newsletters, and website updates.
    • Strengthening strategic collaborations with partners and stakeholders.
  • Development of Tools and Training including:
    • Managing the UNHCR Information Integrity Response Toolkit.
    • Disseminating the Toolkit to UNHCR partner organizations.
    • Developing and delivering training materials and programs.
    • Ensuring materials are organized and accessible in a shared-file system.
  • Reporting and Research duties including:
    • Preparation and inputs on funding proposals and donor reports.
    • Preparation for external engagement activities.
    • Supporting implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the Global Refugee Forum multistakeholder pledge.
    • Supporting research and analysis activities.
    • Monitoring and synthesizing media for relevant MDH news.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of four years' work experience relevant to the function.
  • At least one year of experience in developing and delivering misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech capacities for an international organization.
  • At least two years’ experience in digital strategy, international relations, policy, research, and project management.
  • Experience in time-bound multi-dimensional projects for international organizations.
  • Knowledge of trust and safety, online harms, digital literacy, digital policy, and tech regulation issues.
  • Knowledge of the UN, UNHCR, humanitarian and conflict contexts, forced displacement, asylum, and statelessness.

Requirements

  • Fluency in English with excellent drafting and editorial skills; additional languages (especially French and Spanish) are highly desirable.
  • Demonstrated ability in managing data and information, including qualitative and quantitative research design.
  • Quantitative and qualitative research experience in misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.
  • Experience in writing donor, progress, and impact reports.
  • Experience developing informative, visual training materials.
  • Experience using Microsoft Suite, design tools, and monitoring tools; OSINT techniques are an advantage.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to join a high-performing team.
  • Develop a career in digital protection for humanitarian goals.
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