Avis de recrutement d’un responsable des communications, Programme de santé intégré du Nigéria, Washington DC, États-Unis

About Palladium:

 Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

 

Palladium Americas:

Our Americas’ business team has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America as well as the Caribbean, fulfilling projects and assignments for clients from institutions, corporations, governments, and foundations based in the Americas. We have offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

 

This Opportunity:

USAID Nigeria IHP Project, a $225 Million USAID-funded contract implemented by Palladium, IHP is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas, family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea.

This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at the state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, the program’s potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.
The Communications Manager will support its Headquarters team in the project’s communications, media, advocacy, knowledge management and sharing activities across the project.

 

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in communications, providing strategic guidance and developing appealing presentations of implementation results, we are interested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Provide support in the management of the IHP social media presence ;
  2. Provide support to the development of IHP communications, advocacy materials and success stories ;
  3. Support to IHP events and initiatives ;
  4. Contribute to IHP knowledge management and sharing ;

Works closely with project leadership and relevant focal points to assist gathering information and creating engaging content for social media channels internally and externally and the website

  • Update social media and other channels internally and externally in a timely manner, and keep them brand-focused ;
  • Keeping up-to-date and analyzing social media and trends and ways of connecting with audiences ;
  • Assist with generation of inbound traffic on social media and measure results on a regular, and where needed, on a daily basis to drive audience engagement and content reach, measure leads, response rate and quality and feedback ;
  • Research, compile and produce reports on social media statistics on a regular basis and electronic surveys ;
  • Maintain files, databases, and systems relevant to the digital presence ;
  • Track and monitor social media and report relevant information to management team;
  • Design and create social media and other internal and external communication content (infographics, videos, GIFs, social media cards etc.) ;
  • Provide support to the development of communications and advocacy materials ;
  • Coordinate/draft briefing materials, press releases, key messages, media advisories, human interest stories, articles, brochures, leaflets etc ;
  • Adaptation/rewriting of information received ;
  • Provide strategic guidance to enhance internal (Palladium) and external visibility of the IHP project ;
  • Graphic design support to create visual concepts. Includes designs for print and electronic media including for social media, brochures, user interfaces, product labels, reports etc ;
  • Assistance to ensure printing and dissemination of publications and audio-visual materials etc ;
  • Maintain library/ database of reference materials and photos ;
  • Maintain up to date project information in the Corporate Project Registry and prepare project updates for all company bulletins and newsletters ;
  • Update contact lists for donor and partner relations ;
  • Photography support ;
  • Support to events and initiatives ;
  • Provide support on special events and initiatives per IHP project needs  ;
  • Contribute to knowledge management and sharing ;
  • Contribute to the identification of best practices and lessons learned ;
  • Support to organize trainings and workshops on communication practices ;
  • Support regular meetings of communications focal points.

Provide/ exchange information with the Mission, Palladium HQ, as well as local and global knowledge and communication networks

 

Qualifications:

  • Experience working as a technical writer, preferably in the field of international development ;
  • Journalistic background is preferred ;
  • Knowledge and understanding of USAID programs, branding, communications style, and learning frameworks preferred ;
  • Demonstrated leadership in communications, marketing, and/or public relations ;
  • Experience translating technical documentation into easy to digest content ;
  • Knowledgeable of international development and public health technical concepts ;
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills ;
  • Advanced skills using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) ;
  • Ability to manage work and make decisions on their own, as well as with a team ;
  • Effective organizational skills, including the ability to multi-task and work in a high-pressure environment ;
  • Willingness to take on additional tasks, as requested.

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected]

Safeguarding

We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

 

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