Associate Digital Communications Consultant

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively collect and curate high-quality visual assets from UN country teams, UN agencies, and headquarters, ensuring all visuals follow protocols and align with campaign priorities.
• Engage regularly with field colleagues to encourage timely, high-impact photo submissions highlighting campaigns, human-centered stories, and country results.
• Create, maintain, and organize the central photo and multimedia asset repository, including tagging, cataloging, and archiving content by country, theme, and campaign.
• Support the development and delivery of compelling digital content such as social media posts, photo stories, and short videos that align with UNSDG messaging.
• Assist in planning, producing, and rolling out multimedia assets to increase visibility and engagement across social media platforms.
• Monitor engagement trends and campaign performance to help refine content strategies based on data insights.
• Provide technical support and contribute to ongoing maintenance of the UNSDG and DCO websites, including content updates, platform integration, and backend tasks.
• Support content uploads, stakeholder coordination, and ensure compliance with accessibility, SEO, multilingual standards, and security protocols.
• Monitor KPIs and analyze digital engagement trends to generate insights that improve platform reach, functionality, and impact.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in communication, journalism, international relations, digital marketing, computer science, graphic design, or a related field; or a first-level degree with two additional years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of two years (or four years with a Bachelor's degree) of progressively responsible experience in public information, digital content, web development, graphic design, motion graphics, or related areas.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects), Canva, or similar tools.
• Experience coordinating with developers and editorial teams on multilingual web content using Drupal or similar CMS is desirable.
• Proven experience producing multimedia content for websites and social media supporting multilateral initiatives is desirable.
• Experience developing visual content for campaigns, reports, presentations, and social media with attention to layout, accessibility, and brand consistency is desirable.
• Familiarity with digital performance tracking tools (e.g., Google Analytics) and ability to interpret engagement data is desirable.
• Experience managing digital asset repositories and applying metadata/tagging systems is desirable.
• Experience supporting virtual collaboration and platform management using Microsoft 365 tools is an asset.

Nice to Have

• Experience with coordinating multilingual web content using Drupal or similar CMS.
• Experience developing visual content for reports, presentations, and social media campaigns.
• Familiarity with digital performance tracking tools like Google Analytics.
• Experience supporting virtual collaboration platforms and tools such as Microsoft 365.
• Skills in ethical and responsible use of AI for communications.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in relevant fields or a first-level degree with additional experience.
• At least two years of relevant professional experience in digital content, web development, or related areas.

Benefits & Perks

• No fee charged at any stage of the recruitment process.