Communication Assistant

Duties and responsibilities:

• Assists in developing and maintaining close communication with the stakeholders as well as with groups and organizations that support the achievement of EMPHNET’s advocacy and communication objectives and activities;
• Provides day-to-day assistance in handling public relations including organizing events, interviews, and development and dissemination of information to the media or stakeholders;

• Assists in the production of advocacy and communication materials as needed for successful publication of EMPHNET’s materials (newsletters, brochures, Reports, fact sheets, profiles, posters, and briefing papers);

• Oversees the qualitative aspects of publications production (quality control, translations, reviews of layout and graphic design);
• Assists in drafting and editing articles, press releases, feature stories and other advocacy and information materials for both web-based and traditional media;
• Upload materials to the website including materials related to public information activities, workshops, and local trainings;
• Updates FETPs programs and other stockholders with the latest publications, news and other materials; 
• Helps organize support for special events and activities of EMPHNET. Follows up post training activities mainly focusing on training evaluation, trainee evaluation post trainings.
• Develops and maintain a database of project international and local experts as well as database of projects, alumni, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

 Required knowledge, abilities and experience:

• University degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or equivalent professional work experience in the field of communication combined with a university degree in a related field.
• Three years of practical professional work experience in communication, and/or print and broadcast media.
• Ability to research, analyze, evaluate and synthesize information.
• General ability to draft clearly and concisely ideas and concepts in written and oral form; specific skills in writing press releases and articles/stories for print and electronic media.
• Experience with international agencies is preferable.
• Experience with health agencies is preferable.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexibility to work altered and non-traditional work schedules necessary to meet the deadlines of the cooperation. 
• Experience with technical assistance projects is preferable.
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).