Communication and Outreach specialist at Local Administrative Intities Development Agency (LODA) Under Contract :Deadline: Jul 17, 2024

Job responsibilities

The Communications and Outreach Specialist will be responsible for the implementation of the communication strategy specific to social protection programes managed by LODA, and produce appealing marketing and promotion materials/tools upon guidelines of LODA’s communication strategy for public awareness and visibility purposes. He/she will undertake the following tasks: • Engage with technical staff to develop ways/tools to implement the communication strategy on social protection and poverty reduction/eradication through SBCC campaigns; • Research and draft media and advocacy materials, create/prepare documents for publication in journals, position papers, speeches and talking points; • Collect and package information including production, web stories to inspire graduation and mindset change amongst SP programme beneficiaries;

• Synthetize and edit texts and documents of a specialized or technical nature to ensure accuracy, clarity, cohesion in conformity with LODA communication guidelines and visibility, house style English, policy and practice; • Track, research and analyze information on assigned topics/issues, gather information from diverse sources and help synthetize briefs; • Lead editorial review of LODA’s public information documents (including the website, presentations, and newsletter) for public digest; • Design and produce appealing documents as fact sheets, pamphlets including the editing of reports; • Produce multimedia content in various formats including but not limited to: videos, online photo galleries, photo exhibits, webcasts, podcasts, infographics, slide shows and Power Point; • Work with technical staff to produce communication materials that are clear and understandable by stakeholders and ensure those materials are distributed to communities, target beneficiaries, and local government authorities to increase awareness of LODA programmes, their major achievements and lessons learned; • Produce compelling audiovisual products (editing video footages, craft up short/long films, and photography), and support audio and video needs of events, website(s) and publications; • Design, plan, formulate and manage LODA’s social media presence – in line with the corporate guidelines and donor/development partner preference

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    Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

    5 Years of relevant experience

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    Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Design

    5 Years of relevant experience

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    Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design

    5 Years of relevant experience

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    Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Language

    5 Years of relevant experience

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  Arts in Mass Media and Communication

  5 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

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    Ability to present information effectively.

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    Experienced with Microsoft Publisher, Power Point, Adobe Premier, Adobe in Design, Photoshop Final Cut Pro X and 7, SoundTrack Pro, and DVD Studio Pro

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    Effective communications skills and extensive experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals

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    Impeccable writing and editing skills, with working knowledge of Associated Press style

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  Strong knowledge and understanding of current trends in digital media/social media and online analytics

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