South Sudan: Communications Specialist, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP), South Sudan

Communications Specialist, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP), South Sudan

Company Profile:

MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. Our core expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), institutional development, public sector management, governance and anti-corruption. MSI has implemented projects in 90 countries around the world such as Jordan, Kenya, Indonesia, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Colombia, and Mexico. As one of the leading companies in our field, MSI has partnered with organizations across all sectors of international development to support clients ranging from large bilateral and multilateral donors such as USAID, the World Bank and the UNDP to national and local governments, NGOs, think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project Summary:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) program office requires support to assist USAID/South Sudan to effectively monitor, evaluate, and relay information about funded interventions. The Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP) provides USAID/South Sudan with flexible and demand-driven technical, analytic, advisory, training, monitoring, evaluation, and related support services for performance measurement, planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, activity mapping, and performance information management and dissemination activities

Position Summary:

The communications specialist will be part of the MSI Analytics Unit, which is a clearinghouse for all technical documents produced by MESP. The communications specialist is responsible for packaging the research products into final document form in both hard and soft copies. The emphasis for this role is on rendering technical analysis into simple, clean, and easy-to-understand formats using the full range of text, graphic, and pictorial representations of information. The communications specialist will also disseminate this same information as appropriate using various conventional and social media as required by USAID/South Sudan.

The communications specialist will work closely with the Third Party Monitors (TPMs), evaluators, M&E staff, and technical drafters along the entire work flow, from tool development to data collection and analysis, in order to ensure that when final reports are prepared, the information is seamlessly integrated into its final form. MESP operates under tight time frames, which will require that the communications specialist finalizes and polishes a variety of documents, and renders them in power point presentations, web-based products, word documents and short concise posters and flyers as necessary in a timely manner. In addition to informatics and presentation, the communications specialist will also play a role in editing as part of a larger proofreading and quality control team. It should be noted that the mechanism that the communications specialist is part of focuses on collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) and therefore is a flexible, responsive mechanism that has to accommodate the evolving, and potentially unpredictable, needs of USAID/South Sudan.

Responsibilities:

• Produce standard quality documents.
• Establish uniform standards, formats, and style guidance for producing MESP publications, materials, and presentations.
• Maintain contact with USAID/South Sudan and partner communications and information management staff as needed.
• Design, write, and edit promotional and informational material for internal and external audiences.
• Support the coordination of information sharing within USAID Technical Teams and with field partners.
• Develop and maintain systems to organize, maximize, and facilitate access to documentation, including internal and external technical publications.
• Edit and write progress reports, work plans, studies, and other technical documents for submission to USAID/South Sudan, with a special emphasis on working papers, abstracts, and summaries.
• Perform data entry including adding numbers to a spreadsheet and/or word processing and typing.
• Keep data organized, safe and available. This will involve maintaining paper files, electronic files, and databases, and inputting, organizing, and retrieving information from these systems. In providing information to USAID or gathering data for management, the communications specialist may be required to print the necessary information or to compile reports or statistics to best display the data.
• File, scan, fax, compose correspondences, carry out data entry, prepare mail, order supplies, answer phone lines, create reports, maintain records, and conduct research as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, development, international affairs, public relations, or related area. Master’s degree preferred.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in international affairs, journalism, and/or international development.
• Demonstrated experience working with media and overseeing communications, public information, or marketing for social development or non-profit international assistance organizations.
• Outstanding English skills in writing and/or editing public information or promotional materials, annual reports, newsletters, project or grant proposals, and briefing papers.
• Experience in organizing and setting up public events, conferences, and campaigns highly desirable.
• Experience in developing web content and other new media such as blogs and podcasts, and preparing computer-based presentations and informational learning materials.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, familiarity with the Adobe Suite and Photoshop.
• Knowledgeable about Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and RSS feeds.
• Familiarity with U.S. Government-funded projects.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer. To apply: Please visit our website, www.msiworldwide.com

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