Communications Officer, P3 at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the Global Fund for Coral Reef (GFCR) global communications strategy, ensuring alignment with UN system priorities and GFCR's investment and programmatic objectives.
• Lead GFCR's global advocacy positioning across ocean, climate, biodiversity, and sustainable finance policy processes.
• Support alignment with relevant United Nations resolutions, international frameworks, and global commitments, ensuring GFCR and One Ocean Finance Initiate (OOF) are positioned as delivery mechanisms for implementation.
• Work with the team on the development and implementation of a strategic engagement framework for GFCR and OOF, including stakeholder mapping, prioritization, and engagement planning across governments, donors, DFIs, private sector actors, and multilateral institutions.
• Coordinate political engagement and mobilization strategies to elevate the One Ocean Finance Initiative within relevant multilateral, ministerial, and intergovernmental processes.
• Strengthen relationships with public and private sector partners through coordinated engagement approaches that emphasize impact, scalability, and alignment with global priorities.
• Research, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Assists in communications aspects of policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies
• Undertakes survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Prepares various written outputs, including briefing notes, opening remarks, draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
• Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations.
• Undertakes outreach activities; supports in organizing meetings, workshops and conferences; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Participates in or leads field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries.
• Contributes to activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, and prepares related documents/reports.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Performs other duties as required.

Education

• An advanced university degree (Master's or Doctorate degree, or equivalent) in communication, public advocacy, environmental communications, social science, or a related field is required.
• A first-level degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) in the specified fields of studies with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programmes in data analytics, business analytics or data science is desirable.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in communication, advocacy, knowledge management, data analysis and documentation, in the area of sustainable development, environmental management, climate change, ecosystems, and oceans at the international level is required
• Experience in the design and implementation of global communications and advocacy strategies for development programmes is required.
• Experience in coordinating political engagement and strengthening partnerships with the public and private sectors and other partners to enhance resource mobilisation and programme implementation is required.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience working with international development organizations, multilateral institutions, or the United Nations system is desirable. Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or a related area is desirable.

Deadline : Nov 11, 2026