Job Title: Communications Field Officer
Organisation: Enabel
Duty Station: Fort Portal, Uganda
About US:
Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements the Belgian governmental cooperation. The agency also implements actions for other national and international donors. With its Belgian and international partners, Enabel provides solutions to address urgent global challenges: Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Social and Economic Inequalities and Global Citizenship. With 1,800 staff, Enabel manages about 150 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.
Job Summary: Enabel in Uganda is seeking to recruit a Communications Field Officer to be based in the Social Protection and Decent Work Project for Enabel in Uganda Field Office in Fort Portal.
The Communications Officer is responsible for the development and implementation of the project communication and knowledge management strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- You coordinate communication and visibility activities
- You design and implement training activities for project staff, government, partners and other key stakeholders as required on knowledge management and communication.
- You establish a mechanism for information flow within the key audiences and with the project.
- You systematically compile lessons learned from project implementation into formats suitable for dissemination
- You collect, edit, publish and disseminate human interest stories of change
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree in communication, marketing or public relations or related fields.
- Five or more years of proven and relevant experience in either communication or advocacy.
- Experience in community mobilization preferably through social behavior change communication.
- Experience working for civil society, bilateral or a multilateral agency is an added advantage.
- Excellent written and spoken English; expressing ideas and opinions clearly in a structured manner that appeals to the reader/listener.
- Multi-media knowledge and skills using web-based communication (content management systems for website, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) & audio-visual media.
- Ability to effectively use print media design software such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
- Proven photography and video production skills.
- Soft skills such as ability to work in a team and autonomously.
- Agile, flexible and cooperative.
- You commit to the vision, mission and values of Enabel: www.enabel.be/content/enabel-vision-mission-values.
NB: Only applications submitted via the above link will be considered. Qualified and experienced women are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply:
All candidates should submit their applications online at the link below(indicating your preferred duty location) with an updated CV (maximum 3 pages)
Deadline: 10th March 2023 by 11:59pm