Communications Senior Officer

Description and Requirement

Project Information
LIFT is embarking on a new strategic period for 2024-2028. The LIFT 2024-2028 Strategy builds on the achievements of LIFT's experience as well as recent adaptations and learning in the face of a changing and dynamic context. The new Strategy outlines an approach to tackle structural drivers of poverty and vulnerability, while also considering immediate interventions to secure and maintain Myanmar's previous development gains. LIFT has proven itself as a key delivery partner across Myanmar’s changing contexts – ranging from post-Nargis recovery, a time of political transition, and relief support during COVID-19. LIFT is managed by the United Nations Office for Projects Services (UNOPS) and has received funding from 16 international donors. The current donors are the United Kingdom, the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Denmark.
Job Specific:
Under the supervision of the Communicaitons Specialist and in close collaboration with the LIFT teams, the Senior Communications Officer will support in implementing the LIFT Communication Strategy for donor relations, external, internal, and crisis communications.
The Communications Senior officer will be in charge of running several editorial processes for reports, newsletters, minutes, programmatic updates, social media posts, townhalls, events, press releases, the LIFT website, and other channels, and must be dedicated to achieving the highest quality in all written graphics, and audio/visual communications content.
The Incumbent under this position will participate in field trips, take photos, record footage and audio, and conduct interviews with beneficiaries and implementing partners to demonstrate LIFT’s operational impact. Also, the CSO must be able to analyze the volatile country context and based on thorough monitoring advice on communication opportunities and challenges. The aim is to help the unit contribute to LIFT being well positioned to deliver on its 2024-2028 POA, streamlined through Plans of Action and at any time aligning to UNOPS’ global communications strategy and standards.
The Communications Senior Officer will proactively contribute to the unit working in a coherent manner to achieve goals within the agreed framework.

Requirements

Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education:

• A Master’s degree preferably in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Social Sciences, Multimedia Management, or other similar field is required.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor's), preferably in the above professional fields with 2 additional years of relevant experience, could be considered in lieu of the Master´s degree.

• A minimum of 2 years of progressive experience in strategic communications, including content creation, media relations, and digital communications literacy, working for a global organization is required.
• Experience in editing, writing, and storytelling skills in English and the local required language, to address various audiences, are required.
• Experience in Social Media tracking tools, CMS systems and digital content creation is required.
• Experience with sensitive and complex communication, issues management, and drafting clear messages for high-level stakeholders is an asset.
• Experience in advising senior management on all aspects of strategic and crisis communication, including messaging and media training is an advantage.
• Experience managing sensitive and complex communication in a corporate/diplomatic context is highly desirable.
• Experience in training and mentoring programme colleagues and partners in collecting data and impact stories for internal reports and updates as well as external use is an advantage.
• Experience working with the UN or international organizations is highly desirable.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (e.g. MS Office newer versions, Google Suite Applications) is required.

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Proficiency in  Burmese is required.