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| Senior Communications Officer (Re Announced) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Kabul, |
| Categories | Communication, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-01-11 | Close Date | 2022-01-05 |
| Vacancy No | 2021-192 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 31-Dec-2022 (Extendable) |
| Education | Bachelors | Experience | 1-2 Years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | 70,000 AFN |
About Company
About Children in Crisis (CiC): Street Child sees a world where all children are safe, in school and learning. We specialise in supporting children and communities in low-resource environments and emergencies: recognising that the complex, compounded challenges that affect them require innovative, integrated interventions. Our interventions are informed by robust, rigorous evidence and results-oriented, optimised to create maximum impact for children at minimum cost. Since 2008, we have assisted over 250 000 children across 14 fragile, conflict and crisis affected counties across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Street Child has a strong, sustained commitment to localisation and works in partnership with 80+ local level actors and organisations, underscored by close consultation and collaboration with local communities.
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities:
Generic Responsibilities:
Ensure adherence with CiC – Street Child policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
Ensure proper filing of documents
Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
Specific Responsibilities
Develop project/program communication products in liaison with project teams (especially Case studies and Human Interest Stories) ensuring adherence to CIC policies.
Ensure the availability of quality photos and videos related to project activities to serve as internal and external communication products
Initiate, develop press releases and media products as needed and requested.
Develop and maintain list of media contacts and establish professional media relationships for CIC.
Produce communication and information products including annual/quarterly reports and initial drafts of articles for strategies, reports, press releases, newsletters etc in collaboration with program staff.
Conduct regular media monitoring for relevant updates, share analysis periodically with line manager, general management team and staff, either through writing or by presentations.
Job Requirement
Professional Competencies:
Bachelor Degree in related media and communications or similar (preferable not mandatory).
Excellent command over English (written and verbal) with the ability to write in a professional and creative manner.
Fluency in Pashto and Dari, both written and verbal (mandatory).
Strong and documented writing skills writing for humanitarian or development organizations .
Strong experience in photography, videography and other visual arts etc.
Experience in producing varied communication products.
Experience with organizing communication and media content.
Experience in using a variety of social media platforms.
Experience in building relationships.
Strong communication, coordination and representational skills.
Strong and documented experience in working with social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Previous documented experience in working as a Media or Communications in a humanitarian/recovery context.
Behavioral competencies:
Planning and delivering results
Empowering and building trust
Communicating with impact and respect
Handling insecure environment
Submission Guideline
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacany number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.
Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:
https://forms.gle/WDQcsZG69x5JAKvx6
Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.
NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE CHILDREN IN CRISIS RECRUITMENT FORM IS NOT SUBMITTED