Reference: 70614
Date Added: 9 April 2019
Closing Date: 28 April 2019
Job Title: Goodwill Ambassador​ Content Officer
Working For: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Length of Contract:
Job Details
Purpose of role
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors include individuals such as Cate Blanchett, Ben Stiller and Neil Gaiman as well as distinguished former refugees such as Khaled Hosseini, Yusra Mardini and Alek Wek. The principle task of this position is to manage GWA content and production, with particular focus on the following:
Procurement of Photographers and Videographers. Content Editing, Production, Management and Storage, Brand, GWA content archiving, GWA Web Pages, provide training on photo and video management, impacting reporting, liaising with GWA focal points, assisting with development of guidelines
Essential minimum qualifications and professional experience required
• University degree in the humanities.
• Minimum 6 months experience of producing terms of reference for posts and contracts for consultants
• Minimum 12 months experience of updating web content/ CMS - essential
• An understanding of working with Goodwill Ambassadors/celebrities and the particular opportunities and challenges around celebrity activity
• 6 months experience of content production, including photo and social video production, editing for social media (premier/creative cloud) and adhering to approvals and branding processes
• 6 months experience of measuring impact and production of impact reports within a communications/marketing context
• Experience of working with/managing photographers and videographers
• Knowledge of the UN system and the humanitarian community
• Experience with handling sensitive and confidential data
• Previous work experience in the humanitarian or development sectors is an asset
Required skills & Competencies
• Excellent English language communication, drafting and presentation skills; a second UN language (French or Spanish)
• Computer skills, familiarity with word-processing, excel, outlook, publisher, webex, mac/apple applications; content sharing platforms, knowledge of google analytics -
• Awareness and ability to work with digital and web editing packages/SMC -
• Familiarity and ability to work with content storage systems, attention to detail
• Ability to work accurately at speed to challenging deadlines, whilst managing multiple tasks
For full details of this role please visit: https://www.unhcr.org/5cab64aa4
Closing Date: 28 April 2019
Interview/Start Dates
Duration: As soon as possible through 31/12/2019 (with intention to renew in 2020)
Interviews will take place on 7 and 8 May 2019
Application Details
Interested applicants should submit their letter of motivation, UNHCR Personal History Form (PHF) and CV to ballard@unhcr.org indicating Associate GWA Content Officer in the subject of the email.
UNHCR Personal History Forms are available at: https://www.unhcr.org/recruit/p11new.doc
Please note that we are unfortunately unable to notify applicants who have not been selected for interview.
Website: https://www.unhcr.org/uk/