Communications and External Relations Associate

The Communications and External Relations Associate will support high-profile donor-focused communications activities for UNFPA Ukraine. The role involves ensuring high-quality communication of donor-funded programmes and compliance with donor visibility requirements, strengthening partnerships, advocacy, and resource mobilization through strategic communications.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the planning and implementation of donor-focused communications and visibility activities in coordination with programme, communications, and external relations teams.
• Coordinating the production of donor-facing communications products, including stories, press releases, newsletters, factsheets, multimedia content, and visibility materials.
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with donor branding, visibility, and communications requirements across programme implementation.
• Maintaining donor communications tracking systems, dashboards, and databases, and contributing to donor reporting and external relations products.
• Coordinating with programme teams, implementing partners, consultants, and service providers to ensure timely delivery of communications products.
• Supporting quality assurance of communications materials and contributing to media monitoring, knowledge management, and communications planning.
• Performing other communications and external relations duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, International Relations, Social Sciences, Political Science, Development Studies, Linguistics, or another relevant field.
• Minimum three years of progressively responsible experience in communications, donor communications, external relations, public relations, journalism, partnerships, advocacy, or related fields.
• Experience producing communications products such as human-interest stories, press releases, newsletters, web stories, social media content, and donor visibility materials.
• Experience with donor visibility, branding requirements, and communications for international organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, or humanitarian/development partners is an asset.
• Experience coordinating photo, video, design, editorial or other communications production processes.
• Excellent writing, editing, coordination, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Good understanding of humanitarian and development communications, ethical storytelling, protection principles and working with affected populations.
• Knowledge of UNFPA’s mandate areas, including sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, youth, population and data, is an asset.
• Good knowledge of social media platforms, digital communications and visual content formats.
• Strong writing, editing and quality assurance skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly for different audiences.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to track multiple deliverables, deadlines and requirements across teams.
• Strong interpersonal and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues across technical, operational and field teams.
• Fluency in English and Ukrainian.

Skills

• Donor Communication
• External Relations
• Public Relations
• Journalism
• Advocacy Communication
• Communications Product Development
• Human Interest Storytelling
• Press Release Writing
• Newsletter Production
• Social Media Content Creation
• Donor Visibility
• Branding Requirements
• Communication Coordination
• Photo and Video Production
• Editorial Coordination
• Writing and Editing
• Ethical Storytelling
• Humanitarian Communication
• Development Communication
• Protection Principles Application
• Social Media Platforms
• Digital Communications
• Visual Content Formats
• Quality Assurance
• Organizational Skills
• Interpersonal Coordination

Languages

English, Ukrainian