Communications Specialist
DAI Global
- Dhaka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Strengthen One Health Disease Detection Systems for effective prevention, detection and response.
- Reduce Threats of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across OH sectors.
- Identify key audiences for project communications; design and carry out rapid assessment of communication channels most utilized by key audiences to inform communications strategy, including audience segmentation and communication approaches for reaching target audiences.
- Collaborate with the project technical team to ensure integration of communications and knowledge management activities that complement and report on program activities.
- Develop and execute the project’s overall communications strategy, catering for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead the communication, knowledge management, and visibility of the project's activities, achievements, and lessons learned, ensuring that project outcomes are effectively shared with relevant stakeholders and contribute to the project's overall success and impact.
- Deliver high-quality writing and communications support, with only limited supervision. Develop communications materials including weekly talking points and presentations, website content, fact sheets, presentations, reports, photo-reporting and other collateral materials that effectively showcase the project's impact, lessons learned, and good practices.
- Lead SSOH’s reporting to USAID, including Biweekly Updates, Quarterly Progress Reports, Annual Reports and the Final Report.
- Working closely with SSOH technical staff and subcontractors to identify and craft stories that showcase impact, lessons learned, and good practices.
- Work with technical and security team to ensure communications are nuanced for the local context, ensuring the promotion of local ownership and managing the identification of USAID in a way that does not overshadow the role of local government or negatively impact the perception of the activity.
- Determine appropriate branding and marking approaches for each activity in each region, identifying opportunities where it is appropriate to identify and promote USAID support, and those where the identification of USAID would be detrimental to the success of the activity and an exception to USAID branding should be requested.
- Identify and spearhead the coordination of key events and other opportunities to connect with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Represent SSOH with USAID/Bangladesh's Communications team to ensure Activity is aligned with USAID communication priorities and the Branding Implementation and Marking Plan is current and up to date with any required changes.
- Oversee the production of a wide range of communications materials and tools to advance SSOH objectives.
- Lead trainings on branding requirements, reporting and other communications related topics with SSOH staff, grantees, and other internal or external stakeholders, as needed.
- Other duties assigned by the MEL Advisor, Technical Team Leads, and/or Chief of Party that are consistent with the overall focus of the assignment.
- Travel to the field and regional offices as required.
- Bachelor’s degree in communications or a relevant field; Advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 9 years of experience in communications, including writing success stories, social media, report writing, and producing visual presentations.
- Experience conducting interviews and writing success stories that showcase project milestones.
- Experience creating and leading social media content and solid understanding of social media analytics (Twitter/X, Facebook).
- Demonstrated knowledge of USAID Branding, Implementation and Marking requirements and reporting protocols preferred.
- Experience in development and implementation of communication plans and Branding Implementation and Marking Plans, preferred.
- Prior work experience in Bangladesh, required.
- Professional proficiency in English is required, and proficiency in local languages is preferred.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail, able to manage one’s work, take initiative, set schedules and meet deadlines without close supervision.
- Team player, who can coordinate across several teams within SSOH.
- Ability to communicate project activities and impact to a range of external and internal stakeholders.
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