Communications Specialist,
Central Africa Regional Third-Party Monitoring Project,
Democratic Republic of Congo
Company Profile:
MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, D.C. 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, peace and stability, 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 United Nations Development Program to national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project Summary:
This three-year USAID Central Africa Regional Third-Party Monitoring (CART) project will establish independent, impartial, timely, responsive, contextualized, and forward-looking third-party monitoring (TPM) and operational support services. CART will provide a comprehensive range of verification and outcome monitoring, and learning services that will increase FFP's and its implementing partners' (IP) understanding of the outputs, outcomes, progress, challenges, successes, results, and lessons learned for both emergency and non-emergency activities within CAR, DRC and ROC. This project seeks to improve FFP's capability to utilize humanitarian assistance resources to ameliorate the drivers of poverty and malnutrition characterized by complex emergencies within the region.
**Please note: Only citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo are eligible for this position
Position Summary:
The Communications Specialist will participate in the full scope of strategic communication support tasks – including the development and production of information products and publications and reporting. The Communications Specialist will also provide technically accurate translations and editing of requested documents and verbal interpretation in French and English, as needed. The Communications Specialist will also be tasked with tasked with editing a variety of products, ensuring that they are free of errors and otherwise meet established quality expectations and branding requirements.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to the professional presentation and execution of communications products, services and contribute to systems to track metrics/indicators
Interpret complex, technical language and make it understandable for different audiences
Participate in and contribute to presentations at quarterly coordinating, strategy and performance review meetings
Translate written program documents and other materials into English and French
Ensure that translations of requested documents are consistent in terminology, syntax, and style
Conduct consecutive and simultaneous oral translation during meetings and data collection, ensuring that interpretation is technically accurate
Work with management to develop and maintain systems and workflows among the team that contribute to the effective management, organization and recall of communications products
To support the timely review and revision of project publications, products, event materials and official correspondence
Conduct other tasks as assigned
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in English, international development, communications or a similar field required
Minimum of three years of relevant experience
Demonstrated management and administrative skills
Have the capacity to work both independently as well as in a team setting
Willing to undertake field travel and work under demanding conditions
Ability to establish priorities and undertake assigned tasks with minimum supervision
Ability to effectively address multiple tasks
Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
Ability to quickly and accurately translate and interpret from French to English, and vice versa
Fluency in both English and French (written and verbal) is required
Reasonable Accommodations: MSI is dedicated to hiring an inclusive workforce. If you would like to request reasonable accommodations during the application process, please email MSI.Dept.HRRecruiting@tetratechinc.onmicrosoft.com with “Reasonable Accommodations” in the title. Our recruitment team looks forward to engaging in an interactive process to provide reasonable accommodations for candidates.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
Please submit application by no later than November 16, 2020.
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