Job Vacancy: CARTA Program Communications Officer
The African Population and Health
Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit organization that
carries out high quality and policy-relevant research on population and health
issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
APHRC’s flagship program, The
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) is an Africa-based,
Africa-led initiative which seeks to rebuild and strengthen the capacity of
African universities to produce well-trained and skilled researchers and
scholars in Africa by Africans.
The program addresses an important challenge facing the African academy i.e. the scarcity of a robust research and training infrastructure capable of offering the type of vibrant and sustained doctoral training necessary to attract, train and retain the continent’s brightest minds.
CARTA seeks to recruit a Program
Communications Officer to drive the program’s communication initiatives.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Manage the internal and external
communications of the CARTA consortium, keeping the partners up to date
with the events and progress of the program and facilitating easy sharing
of information among the different stakeholders;
- Manage the communications from the Secretariat
to the fellows and partner institutions about available calls, information
required, opportunities available, and others that may be needed;
- Keep an updated database of achievements,
promotions, recognitions and other indicators of success by fellows and
institutions within the program;
- Compile and edit updates for weekly, monthly
and annual reports on the activities of the Secretariat and the
achievements of the program;
- Plan and coordinate CARTA events for community
and public engagements (CPE) including CARTA-related conferences;
- Design and coordinate production of CARTA
branded materials;
- Rapporteur in main CARTA events, including
conferences and workshops;
- Engage with the media to disseminate
information on the success stories of CARTA;
- Produce content for the CARTA website;
- Produce monthly E-News and the semi-annual
CARTA newsletter;
- Drive multimedia innovations to showcase CARTA
fellows;
- Engage in communication and CPE strategy
development to promote the role of CARTA in improving research leadership
across Africa;
- Monitor the implementation of the CARTA
communication and CPE strategies;
- Contribute to resource mobilization efforts
for capital campaign;
- Conduct trainings in communications and
knowledge translation for doctoral fellows;
- Support marketing and visibility of
short-course programs; and
- Support the Research Capacity Strengthening
Division’s communications.
Qualifications,
experience and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications,
Journalism, Marketing or related field. Master’s degree desirable;
- At least 4 years’ post-qualification work
experience in communications, marketing, writing and content creation
preferably at an international organization;
- Experience in an academic and/or research
institution;
- Excellent editing and writing skills;
- Visual media skills including use of still and
video camera;
- Experience in using and monitoring social
media channels;
- Experience of creating and editing digital
media and publishing across a variety of media platforms;
- Experience with web-based publishing platforms
including WordPress;
- Knowledge of using email distribution systems
such as Constant Contact and Mailchimp;
- Networking, interpersonal, analytical and
organizational skills coupled with resourcefulness initiative, maturity of
judgment as well as willingness to work as part of a team;
- Experience working with academics or
researchers;
- Interest in research capacity strengthening,
and in exploring the role that communication has to play in making these
initiatives successful and facilitate long-term funding.
Interested candidates are encouraged
to apply through our recruitment portal https://aphrc.org/vacancies/ by
January 26, 2022.
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted; shortlisted candidates will be required to have a Police Clearance
Certificate.
Cover letters should be addressed to:
The Human Resources Officer
African Population and Health Research Center, Inc
APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru
P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
APHRC is an equal opportunity
employer and is committed to the protection of vulnerable persons.
