The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the world's leading organization working for the rights of children, is seeking to recruit following staff for their Country Office in New Delhi. Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English required. Knowledge of Hindi highly desirable.

Communication for Development Officer
The incumbent will be providing strategic, technical, operational and managerial support to UNICEF Programme Communication section in developing and implementing social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) strategies aimed at fostering an environment at the family and community levels for child survival, health-related emergencies and child protection. The geographic focus would be at the national level, in programmatic focus states and districts, as well as interventions that build capacity and strengthen the government systems in communication planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation.

Qualification: Minimum Bachelor's degree from a recognized University in the Social/ Behavioural sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Health, Education) or other fields related to work work of UNICEF.

Experience: At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in designing, planning and management of strategic communication programmes with focus on strategic communication planning for behavior development/ social mobilization/ advocacy/ participatory communication/ development and production of creative materials/ research, training of facilitation of communication/ Impact evaluation of communication intentions.

Location: New Delhi

Candidates meeting minimum requirements may e-mail their applications consisting of a cover letter and an up-to-date CV by 9th April 2013. in order to ensure that your application is sorted correctly, please mention the Job Title and Location of the post in the subject line of your email/ application.

For more details of the post and full job description, visit the UNICEF India website at: www.unicef.in and click on "Careers at UNICEF" at the bottom of the page. Only applications of short listed candidates will be acknowledged. These vacancies are open to India Nationals only.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities,m to apply to become a par of our organization.

UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, traveling, processing, training or any other fees).

UNICEF is a non-smoking working environment.