Deadline: 30 July, 2020
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Communication Officer.
The primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the system of the United Nations.
Responsibilities
- Finalise and lead the implementation of the comprehensive communication and advocacy plan for WCO, fully integrating a digital strategy
- Include defining target audience with differentiated strategies
- Content creation (web and print)
- Proactively create editorial content (stories, photos, infographics, film, etc.) in cooperation with WCO technical officers
- Create/design templates for ‘standard’ communication products
- Coordinate the over-all implementation of the communication plan, including social media engagement strategy to ensure coherence of content across platforms
- Website update and content management
- Manage WCO website on a weekly basis and work to continuously improve structure of the website,
- ensuring that key deadlines for the dissemination of time-sensitive content are met
- Manage WCO website on a weekly basis and work to continuously improve structure of the website, ensuring that key deadlines for the dissemination of time-sensitive content are met
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Marketing, Social Sciences, Communication or a related field
- Postgraduate degree in Journalism, Public Health, Social Sciences, Mass Communication or a related field
- Two years, minimum, of experience in communication, social marketing and/or health promotion and demonstrated success in a communication role
- Experience in developing and implementing a communication strategy/campaign
- Experience in reporting on qualitative and quantitative analytics
- Knowledge of global health and national health development issues
- Knowledge of video editing software such as Adobe Premiere/Final Cut Pro
- Demonstrable experience in documenting health related programmes/projects
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Expert knowledge of English
- Intermediate knowledge of Sinhala
To apply and for more information, click here.
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