Nutrition Advocacy and Communication Consultancy

The consultant will support UNICEF Philippines to maximize gains from nutrition advocacy and communication, implementing and monitoring nutrition advocacy plans, producing advocacy and media materials, and supporting nutrition priorities including maternal nutrition, stunting, wasting, and healthy food environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the Nutrition team and Advocacy and Communication Section to implement, monitor and update the nutrition advocacy and communication plan including the Child Nutrition Fund country communications plan.
• Produce timely advocacy, media, digital and donor-facing materials.
• Support advocacy around the first 1,000 days/maternal nutrition, stunting and wasting, and healthy food environments.
• Support institutionalization of MMS in routine antenatal care, strengthening local nutrition systems and service consistency.
• Support scaling severe acute malnutrition detection/referral/outpatient care.
• Advance protections from unhealthy food marketing and healthier school and community food environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor`s university degree in Communication, journalism, public relations, development communication, public health/nutrition communication, political science/political economy, international relations, social sciences or other related fields.
• Advanced university degree is an advantage.
• Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience in advocacy, communication, media, digital content production, public health/nutrition communication or social development communication is required.
• Experience with UNICEF, UN, government, INGOs or development partners is an advantage.
• Proven ability to develop advocacy and communication strategies; produce compelling written and digital materials; translate technical nutrition issues for decision makers, partners, media, caregivers and the public; coordinate across programme and communication teams; manage content production and approvals; monitor outputs and metrics; and provide sound judgement on reputational and risk issues.
• Excellent written and spoken English is required.
• Fluency in Filipino or another Philippine language is an advantage.
• Media relations, event support, donor visibility, social media analytics, video/photo production coordination and field story-gathering experience is desirable.
• Short proposal outlining approach to coordinating the 12-month nutrition advocacy and communication workplan.
• Two writing samples and/or links to communication products.

Skills

• Advocacy Strategies
• Communication Strategy
• Media Relations
• Digital Content Creation
• Public Health Communication
• Nutrition Communication
• Social Development
• Content Production Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Risk and Reputation Management
• Event Support
• Donor Visibility
• Social Media Metrics Analysis
• Video Production Coordination
• Photo Production Coordination
• Field Story-Gathering
• Proposal Writing
• Written Communication
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

English, Filipino