COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

The Group

The Alliance of Bioversity Worldwide and CIAT delivers research-based options that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably rework meals programs to enhance folks’s lives. Alliance options deal with the worldwide crises of malnutrition, local weather change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

The Alliance works with native, nationwide and multinational companions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the private and non-private sectors. The Alliance is a part of CGIAR, a world analysis partnership for a food-secure future, devoted to decreasing poverty, enhancing meals and diet safety, and bettering pure assets and ecosystem providers.

Concerning the place

The Communications Specialist will develop and handle strategic communications plans for designated Alliance analysis areas or applications. The chosen individual will produce written content material that showcases analysis impression to focus on audiences; and share information, insights, and priorities with colleagues answerable for strategic communications, in order that useful resource mobilization and exterior communications are mutually reinforcing.

Key duties & obligations

• Determine communications targets, plans, and milestones for every designated analysis space.
• Guarantee possible deployment of plans with allotted funds and assets.
• Act as interface between Alliance analysis areas and Communications Group (Digital and Inside, Publications and Design, Media, Outreach, and Regional Communicators), working carefully with the World Communications Officer.
• Keep contact with analysis administrators and analysis employees to establish alternatives to boost visibility of their work primarily based on upcoming analysis outcomes or merchandise.
• Write and edit communications content material together with tales, blogs, press and social media content material.
• Construct a communications portfolio per analysis space (slides, multimedia, case research, supplies for occasions).
• Contribute materials for main communications initiatives such because the Annual Report.
• Preserve the web site up to date with details about analysis areas.
• Go to area mission websites with excessive communications potential for foremost audience.

Required {qualifications} and expertise.

• Bachelor’s diploma in communications, or associated fields.
• Grasp’s, Diploma in Communications, or related analysis area.
• Expertise in progressive communications, main and deploying strategic plans and different communications deliverables (a minimum of 5 years).
• Thematic information of matters together with agriculture, meals programs, local weather change, agrobiodiversity, diet, poverty and livelihoods, digital and gender inclusion, crop analysis and sustainable improvement.
• Wonderful verbal and written communication expertise in English. Fluency in English (oral and written) is important. Working competency in Spanish, French, or different UN languages is a plus (oral and written).
• Prior expertise working in a world group, and in a number of time zones.
• Demonstrated skill to work successfully as a part of a crew with folks in a multi-cultural and multidisciplinary setting, together with with exterior stakeholders, and wonderful interpersonal expertise.
• Capability to offer a excessive degree of service beneath stress.
• Expertise and skill to translate complicated science into extensively compelling and focused communications tales.
• Ready and prepared to journey to international area websites.
• Inventive, autonomous, and solutions-oriented method.
• Data administration expertise is a plus.

This place is a nationally recruited place primarily based in Nairobi, Kenya. The preliminary contract can be for one 12 months topic to a probation interval of three (3) months and is renewable relying on efficiency and availability of assets.

This place is graded at BG08degree, with a fundamental wage of 307,706 Kenya Shillings on a scale of BG01 to BG14 (BG14 being the best degree based on the Alliance job classification framework coverage). We provide a aggressive wage and wonderful advantages together with however not restricted to insurance coverage, retirement plan, employees coaching and improvement, paid time without work and versatile working preparations.

The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT is dedicated to truthful, secure, and inclusive workplaces. We imagine that range powers our innovation, contributes to our excellence, and is vital for our mission. Recruiting and mentoring employees to create an inclusive group that displays our international character is a precedence. We encourage candidates from all cultures, races, colours, religions, sexes, nationwide or regional origins, ages, incapacity statuses, sexual orientations, marital standing, and gender identities. Feminine candidates are strongly inspired to use.