Summary
Date Posted: 8th May 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
  APROACH COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
General Description
Resonance is an award-winning frontier market solutions firm based in Burlington, Vermont that helps a variety of donor, commercial and investor clients around the world achieve to catalyze lasting impact. We envision a prosperous and just world of thriving markets, healthy ecosystems, and vibrant communities where business, governments and citizens work together creating a better world for all.
Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets. We strive to merge strategic insight with practical on-the-ground knowledge into an integrated approach that emphasizes results.
We seek candidates who are ready to apply their analytical and problem-solving skills to some of our planet’s greatest challenges in an entrepreneurial, fun, and fast-paced environment. We are looking for passionate and committed people who can work collaboratively to deliver results for our clients and stakeholders around the world.
Resonance is currently seeking Communications Manager candidates to propose for an upcoming 5-year USAID-funded Zambia Alternatives to Charcoal project. The purpose of this activity is to promote energy alternatives to charcoal with the goal of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in certain provinces of Zambia. The position is contingent upon contract award.
The Communications Manager will report to the Deputy Chief of Party and support program efforts by producing high-quality content that engages Zambian communities, local businesses, and government stakeholders. Main duties will also include creating informative content, campaigns, press releases, articles, and media opportunities to share the programs ideas and services and to promote behavior change and builds awareness around alternative fuels..

  Essential Functions
• Develop a program-wide communications strategy and appropriate templates and checklists to support the framework, in line with USAID branding and marking guidelines;
• Plan and manage informative and interesting awareness campaigns, press releases, press kits, newsletters, and other marketing materials.
• Develop and implement effective communication strategies that: build awareness of project to potential partners and beneficiaries; enhance consumer and community of partner and grantee products and services among Zambian communities; support behavior change for alternative energy and alternative livelihoods to charcoal.
• Supervise all external-facing communications projects to guarantee all content is publication-ready in terms of quality and branding requirements and is submitted by the deadline;
• Support communication and marketing strategies for project partners and grantees’ new services, products, launches, events, and promotions.

Job Skills: Not Specified
Job Qualifications: Not Specified

  Required Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in communications, journalism, media studies, business, international affairs or a related field
• Five (5) years of relevant communications experience, preferably around behavior change, social enterprise support, or open innovation and for a US Government foreign affairs agency, international assistance organization, or non-governmental organization
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design, professional printing skills, including the ability to present concepts to mixed audiences
• Understanding of USAID branding and marking policies and procedures
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude and demonstrated experience working on cross-cultural teams

Preferred Education, Experience & Competencies
Applicable experience with USAID branding and marking
• Work Authorization/security clearance
• Zambian work authorization
• Work Environment
• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of SSG-Advisors, LLC (doing business as Resonance) is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. Resonance hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

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Job application procedure
  APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and three references to zambiajobs@resonanceglobal.com  Please include “Communications Manager” in the email subject line, and save documents (cover letter, resume, and references) in one PDF as ‘Last Name_First Name.pdf’. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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