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About the job

General objectives:

Under the responsibility of the Field coordinator, the communication officer base is in charge of working closely with the programs, MEAL and IM teams to create external communication material. His/her work will also been overseen by the coordination team in Aman as well as per the HQ communication team in Paris to guarantee the compliance to SI communication rules and policies.

External communication

Based on SI strategical position in NES, the communication officer will create content based on:

• Photo and video from field activities
• Primary data existing in different surveys done at base level
• Reporting tools done by the program team with the support of the IM department
• Secondary data review in close collaboration with the Field Coordinator and the program manager

For medias:

In collaboration with the HQ communication department, the communication officer will create content both written and visual, serving international general public with the scope of raising awareness, informing on the context of intervention and calling for action and donation.

The communication officer is expected to be proactive in terms of proposing ideas, content and communication support, all external communication having to be validated by the CD.

For humanitarian community (cluster, donors):

The purpose of this communication will be to influence the humanitarian response in NES by highlighting to the humanitarian community strategical issues with a data-based approach and promoting SI innovative approach on under-reported topics.

For SI’s donors:

The communication officer will manage the projects’ visibility lines to make sure SI respects its contractual engagements.

While the development of the strategical approach will be led by the field coordinator, the communication officer is expected to proactively identify the data and information to be included in communication documents. He/She will therefore need to develop a good understanding of programs.

It is expected from the communication officer to propose innovative solutions and to be able to tailor the message to the targeted audience including medias and general public, donors, working groups, other (I)NGOs,

Other

Databases management:

The communication officer will create maintain 3 databases that are essential in terms of internal and external communication:

• To maintain a photo/video database: He/she will have to identify relay amongst the program teams to have all necessary photo and video material to illustrate SI activities. He/she will also be in charge of providing photo and video training to the staff. The archiving solution will be developed in close relationship with the HQ communication department.
• To maintain a secondary data database: the Communication officer is in charge of centralizing the existing secondary data in a database easily accessible to all program and MEAL teams in collaboration with the CD assistant. Including qualitative data (reports, factsheets etc.) and quantitative data (population figures, market monitoring etc.) from Working groups, partners, other NGOs, HNAP, HNO, OCHA... The CO will also be responsible for keeping the secondary data up to date to ensure the accuracy of the database content at all times.

While proposing creative ideas, he/she has to be data oriented, be critical on the content of each communication, and able to adapt to work with very technical persons. While this position is mostly focusing on external communication, minor tasks of internal one may be added during the mission.