The purpose of the Global Health Supply Chain– Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC- PSM) Haiti Program is to ensure uninterrupted supplies of health commodities in support of United States Government (USG)-funded public health initiatives in Haiti. The project provides direct procurement and supply chain management support to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and Population and Reproductive Health. In supporting USG-funded global health activities, GHSC-PSM will develop and manage a wide array of services for health commodity procurement and related systems strengthening technical assistance encompassing different elements of a comprehensive supply chain management initiative in collaboration with USAID, MOH, and other partner organizations.
GHSC-PSM Haiti supports country strategies and priorities that fall under the following three project objectives:
• Health commodity procurement and logistics,
• Systems strengthening technical assistance, and
• Global and local collaboration to improve long-term availability of health commodities.
Fonctions
The Communications Officer will be responsible for completing a broad variety of communication tasks for GHSC-PSM in Haiti including close collaboration with the various technical leads, partners, and key stakeholders to identify data, stories, and articles for communications materials. Key activities will be helping to implement a communications strategy, as well as supporting the development of key reports, presentations and events, along with other strategic communications and learning activities for the project. The Communications Officer will report to the GHSC-PSM Haiti Communications Manager.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
• Support the implementation of the project’s communications and knowledge exchange strategy.
• Assist colleagues in adhering to internal and external communications standards, guidelines, processes and protocols.
• Work closely with the M&E and all other technical teams to obtain data and information for stories and articles for communications materials, including reports and success stories.
• Draft or edit written materials on the project, health system and the needs of the Haitian population.
• Stay informed of all significant issues in the Haiti health sector and GHSC-PSM strategies and methods, programs and activities, results and achievements, and on best practices, lessons learned and success stories so that project communication is rich, diverse and well grounded.
• Ensure compliance with all contract requirements (including branding and marking) that relate to reporting, such as the Quarterly and Annual Progress Reports.
• Be able to take good quality photos of project activities, as needed.
• Oversee the management of the project’s photo and video library as well as the project’s institutional memory to ensure that information and materials are easy to access.
• Work with technical unit heads to obtain new and/or updated written material for GHSC-PSM’s websites, newsletters and social media.
• Exhibit Chemonics values and build culture of “Living our Values” within the team.
• Consistently follow USAID regulations, Chemonics policies, and quality management best practices.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time in consultation with supervisor of record.
Qualifications Requises
• BA degree in communications, public health, or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a similar communications role with international development organizations.
• Experience working in international public health programs strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to organize, summarize, and rewrite technical information for non-expert audiences and familiarity with social media and websites.
• Experience with interviewing beneficiaries and taking photos for success stories.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and use good judgment.
• Proven ability to work effectively in teams in a multi-cultural context.
• Familiarity with current USAID branding guidelines.
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in spoken and written English and French is required.
Conditions particulières
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