📁Communications, Media and Journalism, Social Sciences and Community Service
🕒 Jun 27, 2024
🗺️Addis Ababa
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👉 Salary : Attractive
👉 Employment Type: Contract
👉 Job Level : Senior(5-8 years) 👉 Deadline : Jul 28, 2024
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Program Background
PETCO Ethiopia is implementing a 5-year consortium project jointly with Center of Accelerated Women Economic Empowerment (CAWEE) and Ethiopia Enterprise Development. The program is a MasterCard Foundation partnership program to Enable Young Women and Men to Find Dignified and Fulfilling Work opportunities in Manufacturing in Ethiopia by capacitating existing SMEs. The program aims to:
Build SME capacity to sustainably create new jobs and improve existing ones through offering tailored business capacity building and mentorship; enhancing access to markets and raw materials flow; and improving SMEs’ human resources capacity to create safe and inclusive working conditions for young women and men.
Improve Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) offerings to better prepare women and youth to enter the workforce (facilitate school-to-work transition).
Facilitate a robust financial ecosystem to help SMEs access tailored financial services that allow them to grow and increase employment opportunities for young women in particular, and to invest in infrastructure that can improve young women and men's working conditions.
Strengthen the enablers (ecosystem) to foster private sector engagement, stakeholder coordination synergy, and policy development for sustainable and scalable job growth.
Roles and responsibilities
We are seeking a highly-skilled Communications Specialist to join our team and contribute towards bringing impact on young people . The Communications Specialist will have the following key responsibilities:
- Develop a program communications strategy in consultation with the consortium partners and the Mastercard Foundation Public Affairs and Communications (PAC) team.
- Design and develop clear and engaging communication material including but not limited to guidelines, handbooks, newsletters, blogs and posters for the different target groups. ]
- Identify appropriate media channels (social, online, and mainstream) to disseminate information to different target groups.
- Plan and execute stakeholder engagements and events, working closely with program teams to develop creative assets.
- Support the program team in preparing progress reports including quarterly to be submitted to the Mastercard Foundation
- Stay up-to-date with the manufacturing industry and SMEs trends and best practices, integrating them into communication strategies where appropriate.
- Maintain the Mastercard Foundation’s and the consortium member organizations’ values and adhere to the project’s Communication guideline.
- Monitor and analyze the consortiums’/project media coverage and provide regular reports on communications performance.
- Research and write press releases, and content for the organizations’ website, info-graphics, blogs, and newsletters.
- Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles, and strategies, and keep up-to-date with relevant developments.
- Arrange and coordinate press conferences, and plan events.
- Prepare risk mitigation and crisis management plan
- Adhere to the company’s style guide, ensuring that we produce a high-quality and error-free copy.
- Work with key internal role-players to brainstorm content ideas, in line with the company’s strategy and in support of various brand initiatives.
- Support and evaluate results of communication campaigns with the team.
Build and maintain relationships with journalists and key external role-players
Category: Program management
Report to: Senior Program Director
Salary: Competitive salary and a range of additional benefits
Employment Term: Annual contract, renewable based on fund
Competencies
- Works well under pressure and meets tight deadlines.
- Content writing experience for all media platforms.
- Knowledge of youth development, Job creation and the manufacturing sector
- Strategic and creative mindset.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- A portfolio of work available for review
Education, Work experience and Language
- BA or MA degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field (essential).
- A minimum of 7 to 5 year's experience
- Experience in communications strategy development.
- Highly computer literate with capability in email, MS Office, and related business and communication tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills both in English and Amharic.
- Proven social media and networking expertise.
How To Apply
Please send your up-to-date CV (summarized in less than 3 pages) and one pager cover Letter in PDF file explaining your position, reference and your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile toidemeke@petcoethiopia.org before July 3, 2024 COB.
Instruction: Your PDF file name should indicate your name and position you are applying for and only short listed candidates will be contacted for next assessment steps.
Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
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