Deadline: Not specified
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Chemonics is seeking to fill the role of Communications Specialist.
Chemonics is an international development firm with the aim to reimagine global supply chains to deliver essential medicines to the right place at the right time.
Responsibility
- Develop and implement a project-level communications strategy, including leading on stakeholder mapping, and other strategic communication activities
- Lead project communications and outreach activities targeted for key stakeholders
- Produce high-quality reports, press releases, social media posts, and other communication materials related to project success and activities
- Provide high-quality writing and/or editing services for technical materials throughout the project life cycle, including reports, deliverables, and outreach materials
- Work closely with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Director to translate M and E performance data into communication deliverables and narratives of project performance
- Develop effective and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders and continually promote outstanding client service and technical leadership
- Support development of presentations, briefers, etc. for senior staff
- Managing USAID branding strategy and marking of all communication materials and ensure they comply with the USAID requirements
- Provide support to sub-recipients in developing branding strategies and marking plans, specific to their sub-award activities and consistent with the larger ESA branding and marking plan
- Provide capacity-building to sub-recipients on items related to communications, such as development of success stories
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Deputy Chief of Party-Program Support
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Environmental Science, International Development or relevant field, required (Master’s preferred)
- At least four years of experience working in strategic communications planning and implementation on donor-funded programmess
- Minimum three years’ experience with a USAID-funded project is strongly preferred
- Strong writing skills, with a demonstrated ability to write story-driven content about complex technical subjects
- Experience creating, or overseeing the management of, multimedia products such as video, animation and podcasts
- Experience in developing and implementing digital communication strategies and campaigns across a range of channels (including social media)
- Ability to work under deadline pressure with diverse teams and manage production schedules
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
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