•Master’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Public Relations or a related field, and a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
•Demonstrates excellent English language skills and proficiency to quickly write and edit complex communications products for purposeful structure, clarity of ideas, and logical, persuasive presentation. Fluency in French or Spanish, the other two official languages of ICSID, is highly desirable.
•Demonstrates ability to nurture and maintain relationships and communications with internal and external stakeholders.
•Demonstrates ability to think strategically and rapidly analyze diverse information from varied sources.
•Demonstrates ability and the necessary organizational skills to take initiative, personal ownership, and accountability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, balance competing demands and achieve agreed-upon results.
•Knowledge international trade and investment regimes, including dispute resolution mechanisms.
•Demonstrates ability for teamwork in a multicultural environment.
•Experience working with senior executives.
•Experience using digital and social media to stimulate conversations with stakeholders, develop strategies to position across websites, blogs, and other channels.
•Ability to make short videos and produce graphics, experience in with Canva, Adobe platform tools, and other video and graphic editing platforms.
•Familiarity with common website content management systems, such as Drupal, and experience with the design and maintenance of websites in collaboration with IT professionals.
In addition to the above, the successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
•Content and Style Editing - Has significant experience in, leads others and demonstrates in-depth proficiency in rewriting or editing complex communications products for purposeful structure, clarity of ideas, and the logical persuasive presentation of content.
•Communication Strategy, Planning, and Execution - Has significant experience in and/or demonstrates in-depth proficiency at a level sufficient to assist, consult, or lead others in the planning, development, and execution of communication strategies for complex projects.
•Relationship Management and Political Awareness - Has significant experience and/or demonstrates ability to lead and manage relationships with critical internal and external constituencies to foster strategic partnerships and to strengthen ICSID's image or mitigate reputational risk.
•Knowledge of Investor-State Dispute Settlement – A firm understanding of international investment law and dispute settlement, including the role that ICSID serves in resolving international investment disputes.
•Communication in International Development - High-level ability to communicate with internal and external partners, based on understanding their communication needs across a range of global issues, such as climate change and human rights.
•Social Media, Information Channels, and Communication Tools Awareness - Able to assist, consult, or lead others in assuring existing or new, upcoming communication tools and media channels are fully leveraged to assure proper communication.
•Content Development - Has significant experience in and/or demonstrates broad, in-depth proficiency in this competency and is therefore able to clear for internal or external use material that is developed.
Required Core Competencies
•Deliver Results: Achieves results and identifies mission-driven solutions for the client; develops and implements solutions that show understanding of how clients and/or own work achieves results that are financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable; shares new insights based on in-depth understanding of the client and recommends solutions for current and future needs of clients; holds self and team accountable for risk management and outcomes.
•Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Initiates collaboration across boundaries and broadly across organization, and brings differing ideas into the forefront; collaborates across organizational boundaries, internally and externally with a sense of mutuality and respect; consistently engages others in open dialogue, brings out any conflicting viewpoints and incorporates viewpoints into solutions, giving credit where credit is due; leverages expertise of all team members to ensure successful outcomes; makes choices and sets priorities with ICSID perspective in mind.
•Lead & Innovate: Develops innovative solutions with others; encourages and works with others to discover, incubate, and implement novel solutions; identifies opportunities in changing circumstances and energizes others to continuously improve; helps others to understand problems, client needs and the underlying context.
•Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Creates, applies and shares knowledge from across and outside the Bank Group to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions; ensures systematic sharing of good practice and learning from lessons from across organization, clients, and partners; is known across the organization in his/her subject area and is sought out by colleagues to advise, peer review, or contribute to knowledge products of others; seeks mentoring opportunities with more experienced staff to deepen or strengthen their professional knowledge and mentors junior staff; builds networks across the Bank Group and as part of external professional groups/networks.
•Make Smart Decisions: Recommends and takes decisive action; applies critical thinking and seeks inputs and experience from others to recommend a course of action consistent with ICSID’s strategy; evaluates risk and anticipates the short- and long-term implications of decisions; commits to a decision and takes action once a decision has been reached.