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Contract type

• Fixed Term Appointment

Locations

Latin America and Caribbean Region

• Belize
• Guyana

Functional Area

External Relations

• Communication

Position level

• NO-2

Batch Recruitment (2 positions): Advocacy & Communications Officer, NOB, FT, #138572 Guyana, #138551 Belize, Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean

Apply now Job no: 596041

Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment

Duty Station: Georgetown

Level: NO-2

Location: Belize, Guyana

Categories: Communication

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

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For every child, the right to an advocate

UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office (MCO) serves twelve English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of UNICEF's Future Focus Initiative, the Caribbean MCO brings together policy influence, technical expertise and strategic partnerships to advance results for children across the region through one integrated programme, one management structure and a shared pool of resources. The Multi-Country Programme 2027-2031 focuses on three shared outcomes: equitable access to primary health care, learning and skills; protection of children from all forms of violence; and child poverty reduction and resilience strengthening.

Children across the Caribbean face interconnected challenges including learning losses, mental health concerns, violence, child poverty and increasing exposure to climate-related disasters. Despite many countries being classified as upper-middle or high income, significant inequalities persist, particularly for vulnerable children, adolescents, indigenous communities and those living in remote areas. Small island developing states also face fiscal constraints and heightened vulnerability to economic and climate shocks, requiring stronger regional cooperation and system-based solutions.

The Caribbean MCO’s management strategy is governed by four principles that together translate the new business model into concrete ways of working:

• Impact-driven: technical expertise is organized in shared multi-country working groups rather than replicated in each country, with enabling functions aligned around UNICEF’s strongest comparative advantages.
• Effective and agile: parallel country ecosystems are replaced by harmonized systems and flexible cross-country staffing, keeping management lean and decisions close to implementation.
• Grounded: regional scale is balanced with national depth through country-specific workplans, Heads of Office in each duty station, and matrix management that anchors authority and accountability at country level.
• People-centered: structural and managerial choices are guided by staff wellbeing, transparency and inclusion, with clear role definitions, meaningful consultation, and continuous investment in learning and development.

The operational expression of this model is the working group model. Rather than replicating similar roles across four separate country offices, technical and operational expertise is organized into 16 thematic and functional working groups, each distributed across different duty stations and each serving the full 12-country MCO — not just its host location. Roles are designed around three organizing principles: shared regional service, meaning every specialist contributes to the wider MCO; complementary expertise, meaning team capabilities reinforce each other rather than repeating the same profile in multiple places; and agile presence, meaning the workforce can be rapidly deployed across countries through travel, surge support or remote modalities in line with evolving needs and priorities. This working group model is the foundation of a fundamentally new way of working for UNICEF in the Caribbean: depth replaces duplication, and shared capacity replaces fragmented country-by-country coverage

Under the Area Representative with a dotted line to the Deputy Representative, Programme, three strategic shift working groups –Communication & Advocacy, Partnerships, and Evidence Generation & Evaluation/Knowledge Management – provide the enabling capacities required to deliver a more influential, partnership driven and evidence rich multi country programme. Together, they position the MCO to shape public debates, build and leverage high value partnerships, and systematically use data, evidence and learning to drive results for children across the 12 countries.

The Communication & Advocacy strategic shift leads strategic communications, advocacy and youth engagement to build political will, shift social norms and position UNICEF as a trusted voice for children in the Caribbean. It ensures that communication products, campaigns and engagement strategies are aligned with the three programme priorities and tailored to diverse national audiences, while leveraging regional narratives and digital channels to amplify children’s voices.

The team is led by an Advocacy & Communications Specialist, P3, in Jamaica, supported by an Advocacy & Communications Specialist (Barbados), NOC, two Advocacy and Communications Officers, NOB, in Belize and Guyana, a Senior Communication Associate (Jamaica), G7, in Jamaica and two Communications & Partnerships Specialists, NOC with dual reporting lines to the Partnerships Specialist (Team Lead), located in Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname.

Within the Communication & Advocacy team, each position brings distinct technical expertise in a specific area for the whole MCO, such as advocacy, digital communication, media and campaigns, or youth engagement. The roles are designed to complement each other rather than work in silos. Each position contributes to developing integrated advocacy and communication strategies, campaigns and engagement approaches, draws on regional narratives and platforms, and helps ensure that UNICEF's priorities are positioned and amplified consistently across the Caribbean MCO.

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Advocacy and Communication Specialist (Team Lead), P-3, and in close coordination with Communication and Advocacy colleagues across the MCO, the NO-2 Advocacy and Conversation Officer supports the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of advocacy and communication strategies to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.

Within the distributed MCO team, the incumbent supports an assigned subfunction and contributes to communication products, campaigns and engagement approaches that are tailored to national contexts while advancing coherent regional priorities. The role works collaboratively across teams and duty stations and does not carry team-lead or supervisory accountability unless separately assigned.

The key functions and accountabilities are:

• Advocacy and communication strategy development and planning
• Advocacy and communication strategy implementation
• Digital communications
• Media relations
• Advocacy and communication M&E
• Project and budget support
• Advocacy and communication capacity building
• Stakeholder engagement

This position belongs to the Communication & Advocacy working group. If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: NOB Advocacy & Communications Officer Guyana and Belize.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education: A university degree (Bachelor’s) in one of the following fields: International Relations, Political Science, International Development, Public Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Communication, or related fields.

Work Experience:

• At least two (2) years’ experience in advocacy, communication, or campaigning, at a national, regional, or global level.
• Experience in supporting the devel