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Job Title:  Communication, Branding, and Media Officer

Organisation: CARE
International

Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Initiative
Manager

About US:

CARE (Cooperative for
Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances
to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency
relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE
is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and
oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.

Job Summary:  The Communication, Branding, and Media Officer
will  provide overall media engagement,
branding and communication for She feeds the World (SFtW) project, including
supporting the CARE Uganda program team, in information and documentation of projects,
events, media relations and projects, etc with the overall aim of raising CARE
Uganda’s profile and visibility. S/he will work closely with Information
Management and Documentation Coordinator (IMDC), and SFtW project MEAL and
Agribusiness Coordinator.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Support the SFtW project
portfolio on documentation and visibility efforts 65%

• Ensures all new and current staff are
  knowledgeable and well oriented in all relevant SFtW project, and CARE
  Communications strategy (on brand, logos, etc), policies and tools (e.g.
  approval and vetting protocols, consent forms, etc);
• Manages the archiving of all
  communication materials (photos, stories, articles, videos, documentaries)
  with associated approvals and consent forms;
• Regularly goes out to the project
  activities to collect and write stories and supports project staff to
  write stories;
• Responsible for the quarterly project
  and CO newsletter from beginning to end of the process, collecting
  articles, stories, photos from colleagues and partners and continuously
  innovating to keep the newsletter relevant and informative;
• Supports documentation efforts of
  projects such as Project Information Sheets, summaries of results in forms
  of Info Graphics;
• Support the project team for timely and
  quality preparation of Country Office Annual report, preparing / drafting
  content based on project results, based on PIRRS, ensuring the design is
  attractive and ready friendly, etc;
• Maintains the Country Office WebSite,
  ensuring it is regularly updated with latest materials, information on SFtW
  projects and events, checking posts / information and questions received
  through the website;
• Proposes promotional and visibility
  materials to be designed and procured by the CO (e.g. Annual calendars,
  etc);
• Guides project staff on their
  promotional and visibility materials ensuring the CARE guidelines and
  policies are followed (along with donor visibility requirements)
• Coordinates the use of social media by
  the CO, on a regular basis and for specific events (twitter, facebook, etc
  as relevant);
• Participates in the planning,
  organization, roll out and reporting on key events such as 16 days against
  GBV, IWD, Refugee Day, etc and takes lead on all aspects of visibility,
  communication and potentially media engagement for these events;
• Together with the Information Management
  and Documentation Coordinator (IMDC), supports the program team with media
  visits including submitting approvals for licenses and permissions from
  relevant authorities for journalists / photographers, sending them prior
  information as required, reviewing their materials, etc

Support Key Program
Information Management 20%

• Support the IMDC, maintain the CO
  portfolio overview (summary of all grants with key results of the grants)
  and circulate on a quarterly basis;
• Support the IMDC, maintain the CO
  geographic portfolio mapping that captures the geographic presence of each
  project;
• Support the IMDC, ensure key program
  documents from all active grants are safely archived on available
  platforms (Village, Cloud, etc), including approved proposals, approved
  budgets, final submitted progress, narrative and financial reports, MEAL
  documents (approved Log Frame, approved MEAL plans, base lines, end lines,
  final evaluations, etc); All as per standardized filing nomenclature for
  projects and programs; ensuring easy “irretrievability” when needed;
• Support the IMDC, ensure the Knowledge
  Management of project closure is implemented by collecting, reviewing,
  refining and archiving Past Performance Templates of closing projects;
• Support the IMDC, maintains database of
  all CO Program related MOUs with relevant institutions, e.g with Alliances
  & networks, with line Ministries, with District Local Governments, and
  sends alert to relevant colleagues for timely renewals;
• Support the MEAL staff and works closely
  with them on annual Project Information Reporting (PIRRS);
• Support the IMDC, in updating Country
  Office Capacity Statement at least every six months based on projects’
  reports, PIRSS data, etc

Support with secretarial and
administrative support to Senior Program Team

• (Program Director and Program Managers)
  10%
• Provide secretarial support to the
  Programme Director and Program Managers e.g. by supporting
• the preparation of key program events
  (Design Workshops, Learning events, Advocacy events, Program Quality and
  Learning meetings etc), sending invitations, following up on participants,
  ensuring all materials needed for workshops are there, taking notes and
  preparing reports of events, keeping track of actions and decisions made
  at these events, etc
• Supports the senior Program to enter
  Purchase Requests in CARE’s online procurement system for above mentioned
  key program events and liaises with Procurement team on the same;
• Others: Any other duties as required (5%)
• Perform any other duties assigned by the
  Project Manager, CD, and PD.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the job must
  hold a Bachelors’ degree (or equivalent) in Communication and Information
  Management studies, web design, journalism or social media, public
  relations from a reputable institute.
• Three years working experience in a
  similar position, preferably with an international organization or any
  other reputable organization.
• Very good knowledge and skills of
  Information Communication Technology and social media engagement (Twitter,
  Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc);
• Very good writing skills and proven
  experience writing newsletters, briefs, human interest stories, etc;
• Very good computer skills in
  word-processing, publishing, spreadsheets;
• Experience in and basic knowledge of
  photography and videography is a plus;
• Website management knowledge would be an
  added advantage;
• Committed to CARE’s mission and vision
  and values, and particularly to Gender        Equity
  and Diversity;
• Excellent interpersonal and public
  relation skills.
• Dynamic, creative, inquisitive and
  innovative individual with a passion for women and girls’ rights and a
  desire to capture how CARE’s work impacts them!

How to Apply:

Candidates who are interested
in the above jobs should submit an updated CV and Application letter giving a
day time telephone contact and names, telephone contacts and email addresses of
3 (three) work related referees only through our recruitment email:
ugarecruitment@care.org clearly indicating the job title in the email subject.

NB: Please note that when you
are successful for the above position, CARE will need verified copies of your
academic documents.

Deadline: 18^th October 2019

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