ASSOCIATE COMMUNICATION OFFICER (Social Media Coordinator)
at UNESCO, Paris, France
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- Salary
- Not given in the advert
- Closing date
- 12 December 2026
- Start
- Not given in the advert
- Type of post
- Administration and business
A support post, not a teaching post. - Contract
- P-1/P-2
- First seen
- 4 November 2026, on UNESCO
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The advert
OVERVIEW Position Number: CPE 083 Grade: P-1/P-2 Parent Sector: Division for Communications and Public Engagement (CPE) Duty Station: Paris Job Family: Public Information Contract Type: Fixed Term Duration of contract: 2 years, renewable Recruitment open to: Internal and external candidates Application deadline (Midnight Paris Time): 04/12/2026 UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, ProfessionalismORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT The Division for Communications and Public Engagement (CPE) is responsible for shaping and managing UNESCO's internal and external communications, ensuring that the Organization’s activities, content, and messages are effectively conveyed to diverse audiences. It strengthens UNESCO's visibility, reputation and institutional narrative by managing digital platforms, press relations, publications, events and stakeholder engagement, while ensuring coherent messaging across Programme Sectors and Field Offices. OVERVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE POST Under the overall authority of the Director for Communications and Public Engagement, and the direct supervision of the Chief of Digital Content, the incumbent serves as social media coordinator and supports the implementation of UNESCO's Social Media Strategy and Guidelines. Within established and operational frameworks, s/he contributes to a coherent, engaging and audience-centred social media presence across UNESCO platforms. The incumbent coordinates the planning, production and delivery of social media content ensuring its consistency with UNESCO's communication strategy, mandate and organizational priorities. Working in close collaboration with the Chief of Digital Content, the Communications Strategy Planning Team, the Director of the Division, and relevant CPE colleagues, s/he supports the coordination of social media campaigns and content initiatives with CPE specialists, communication focal points across Programme Sectors, and subject specialists. The incumbent ensures that UNESCO's global narrative vision and key messages are appropriately reflected in social media content and adapted to different platforms, audiences and languages. S/He is also the main focal point for social media monitoring, listening and performance analysis, giving insights on key performance indicators and statistics, ensuring the strengthening of UNESCO's presence and impact across social media content platforms.KEY ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES In particular, the incumbent will: Implementation of the Social Media Strategy and Guidelines Work with Sectors' communication focal points and CPE's communications specialists to ensure message consistency and graphic coherence, to create engaging social content. Coordinate with the Communications Strategic Planning Team to update the Communications Planning Grid with social media input, ensuring alignment of activities with UNESCO's communication priorities. Long Description 2. Coordination of social media campaigns Develop and assess social media components for communications campaigns and contribute to the design of strategies to maximize outreach to global audiences and increase awareness on the UNESCO role, messages, activities and special events, through organic, earned and paid media on social media platforms. Support the adaptation of campaign content to different social media platforms, audiences and languages. Long Description 3. Development of social media content Contribute to the strategic planning, creating and editing of engaging multimedia content to further develop UNESCO presence on a range of major social media platforms. Maintain a consistent brand tone and identity on different social media platforms, in all languages. Review, fact-check, and edit all content to ensure accuracy, clarity and high quality before posting. Ensure multilingual production and sharing of social media content. Long Description 4. Monitoring and evaluation of communication material on social media platforms S