Description
Title: Arts, Culture & Health Engagement and Production Coordinator
Reports to: Director, Department of Arts and Culture in Global Health Public Engagement
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is an independent, accredited university that is training the next generation of global health professionals and thinkers to be leaders and change makers so that equitable, quality health services are accessible and delivered to all.
We believe that building bridges across sectors is a necessity to sustainably transform health education and delivery globally, but also to eliminate the gap between the most and least disadvantaged.
In the past two years, UGHE has incubated a series of research and projects looking at the role and contributions of culture and arts in good health, wellbeing and generating health outcomes. As part of those projects, UGHE created Hamwe Festival a platform that brings the health sector together with creative industries annually with the dual mission to create an enabling environment for strong collaboration between the health and creative sectors, as well as to generate new insights into global health challenges and corresponding solutions, using the unique and complementary vantage points of creative and global health professionals.
UGHE is looking for an Engagement and Production Coordinator to contribute to this effort, the ideal candidate would be an individual enthusiastic about global health equity and public engagement.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the design, preparation steps, implementation and evaluation of activities of public engagement activities and events by contributing to desk reviews, event planning, podcast recording, articles redaction, proposals…
- Support the implementation of the festival and other events program
- Identify opportunities and research partners to implement UGHE Arts in Health public engagement projects and facilitate communications with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute significantly to the production of podcasts, video and other materials
- Assist with the production of project deliverables (reports, presentations…)
- Develop communication and other materials for internal and external teams and assist in the coordination of interdepartmental activities.
- Assist in the management of partnerships
- Support UGHE teams and its partners in creating vibrant digital content (audio, video and written pieces)
- Contribute events and other activities content preparation steps, including the research and quality control, facts checking and editing activities.
- Supervise and coordinate arts in health engagement activities including the technical aspects.
- Contribute to UGHE reporting process and other activities key to the institution and department objectives
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- A bachelor degree and experience participating in global health public engagement project
- Demonstrated fitness in content production
- Experience contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary project team
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills in English with previous publications (book contribution, article, Op Eds or others)
- Strong organizational skills and attention to details
- Interest in interacting with both academic researchers and end-users
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to work with communication stakeholders to ensure events and engagement activities reach the largest number of people
- Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a large team
- Good understanding of Kinyarwanda will be considered as an asset
Deadline: 16th March 2022
