PUBLIC INFORMATION ASSISTANT [Temporary] - United Nations - New York, NY

PUBLIC INFORMATION ASSISTANT [Temporary] - United Nations - New York, NY -
This place is situated within the Workplace of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-Basic inside the Division of Public Info. The incumbent studies to the Spokesperson. The Workplace of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-Common offers info to the media on the actions of the UN system as an entire by way of day by day briefings, direct responses to media inquiries, press conferences, background briefings and interviews with the Secretary-Common, the Deputy Secretary-Basic and different senior officers. The Workplace offers recommendation on media relations to the Secretary-Basic, the Deputy Secretary-Common and senior Secretariat officers. The Workplace additionally retains the Secretary-Basic recurrently knowledgeable of main breaking information tales all over the world.

This short-term job is accessible starting 14 November 2016 via 31 December 2016 with a risk of extension.


Obligations


Beneath the supervision of the Spokesperson and/or the Deputy Spokesperson, the incumbent is answerable for the next duties:



  • Focus for all common phone and stroll-in enquiries from the media;

  • Help the Spokesperson with social media features, particularly by tweeting SG remarks, monitoring Twitter and producing common updates relating to Twitter followers;

  • Answerable for the distribution of incoming correspondence;

  • Make bulletins to the press over the UN PA system;

  • Attend the day by day morning assembly in preparation for the midday briefing and drafts a word to GS colleagues on assembly content material;

  • Submit Secretary-Common and Deputy Secretary-Common statements and every day schedules on the Spokesperson’s homepage;

  • Transcribe Secretary-Basic’s press encounters;

  • Act because the principal again-up individual for the day by day newsfeeds to the Secretary-Common and principal backup individual for press conferences.

Competencies

Professionalism – Information of inner insurance policies, processes and procedures associated to communication, manufacturing and dissemination of public info. Means to analysis info from quite a lot of sources. Must be conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines and attaining outcomes. Must exhibit tactfulness and discretion when making info out there to the press. Wants to have the ability to work underneath strain and use initiative.Takes duty for incorporating gender views and making certain the equal participation of men and women in all areas of labor.


Teamwork – Works collaboratively with colleagues to realize organizational objectives; solicits enter by genuinely valuing others’ concepts and experience; is prepared to study from others; locations group agenda earlier than
private agenda; helps and acts in accordance with last group selections, even when such selections might not totally mirror personal place.


Shopper Orientation – Considers all these to whom providers are offered to be “shoppers” and seeks to see issues from shoppers’ viewpoint; identifies shoppers’ wants and matches them to applicable options; meets timeline for supply of services or products to shopper.


Schooling


Highschool diploma or equal.


Work Expertise


A minimal of three years of expertise within the public info space on the United Nations or one other worldwide group is required.


Languages


English and French are the 2 working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this submit, fluency in written and spoken English is required. Fluency in any of the opposite UN official languages is very fascinating.


Evaluation


Analysis of certified candidates might embrace an evaluation train which can be adopted by a competency-based mostly interview.


United Nations Issues


In response to article 101, paragraph three, of the Constitution of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity, together with however not restricted to, respect for worldwide human rights and humanitarian regulation. Candidates could also be topic to screening towards these requirements, together with however not restricted to, whether or not they have dedicated or are alleged to have dedicated felony offences or violations of worldwide human rights regulation and worldwide humanitarian regulation.


Due regard can be paid to the significance of recruiting the employees on as vast a geographical foundation as potential. The United Nations locations no restrictions on the eligibility of women and men to take part in any capability and underneath circumstances of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking setting.


Candidates are urged to comply with rigorously all directions obtainable within the on-line recruitment platform, inspira. For extra detailed steerage, candidates might discuss with the At-a-Look on “The Software Course of” and the Educational Guide for the Candidates, which may be accessed by clicking on “Manuals” hyper-hyperlink on the higher proper aspect of the inspira account-holder homepage.


The screening and analysis of candidates might be carried out on the idea of the knowledge submitted within the software in response to the analysis standards of the job opening and the relevant inner legislations of the United Nations together with the Constitution of the United Nations, resolutions of the Basic Meeting, the Employees Laws and Guidelines, administrative issuances and tips. Candidates should present full and correct info pertaining to their private profile and qualifications, together with however not restricted to, their schooling, work expertise, and language expertise, in response to the directions offered on inspira. Candidates can be disqualified from consideration if they don’t show of their software that they meet the analysis standards of the job opening and the relevant inner legislations of the United Nations. Candidates are solely liable for offering full and correct info on the time of software: no modification, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to purposes which were submitted. Candidates underneath critical consideration for choice might be topic to a reference-checking course of to confirm the knowledge offered within the software.


Job openings marketed on the Careers Portal can be eliminated at midnight (New York time) on the deadline date.


No Payment


THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.




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