Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 02, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The USAID Expanding WASH Project seeks an experienced Communications and Outreach Support Consultant with a proven record of success providing high quality stories, articles, speeches, social media and other communications and outreach products USAID or other donor funded programming. The Consultant will work part time, and remotely as needed, together in coordination with the Chief of Party and other project staff as required to prepare, draft, edit and manage the communications and outreach portfolio. The candidate will report on a daily basis to the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Director and overall, to the Chief of Party.

Communications and Outreach Responsibilities
• Develop communications and outreach mechanisms and materials to raise the profile of USAID Expanding WASH activities and their results, including planning and conducting project and media events; creating communications products for a range of stakeholder needs; and managing content for the USAID Expanding WASH microsite.
• Write, edit and finalize press releases, speeches summaries, fact sheets, presentations, social media posts and other communications materials to highlight project successes and challenges.
• Help prepare web and success stories, and content for use in U.S. Government (USG) publications.
• Help provide guidance to the program team on document formats, including branding and marking in accordance with USAID policies.
• Work with team members to ensure project communications and branding guidelines and best practices are followed by Consortium members.
• Develop and update a project Communications Plan to communications and outreach and maintain a project events and communications calendar.
• Help coordinate with operations and technical teams to support events, preparing relevant materials and promotional materials to advance project initiatives.
• Support technical activities related to social behaviour change communications campaigns with communications and social media outreach.
• Draft success stories and inputs for USAID, draft and edit program reports, including quarterly, annual and other ad hoc reports as needed.
• Help manage media and photo archives and communications-related contract deliverables.

Qualifications
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in journalism, communications and outreach
• Bachelor’s degree in international development, communications, environment, or other relevant field
• USAID or other donor communications experience required, including experience preparing communications plans.
• Excellent communications skills (both written and verbal).
• Strong photographic skills preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail, able to meet deadlines and produce quality documents.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Publisher).
• Zambia experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary team.
• Fluent and superior English written and verbal communication skills, including expertise writing and editing reports and communications products for a USAID audience.
• Able to work effectively with the Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
All applications/proposals must be emailed to Zambia.recruitment@rti.org . Please quote “Communications and Outreach- Consultancy” on the subject line. All applications are due June 12, 2022, at 5:00 PM Lusaka time.

All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION