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Media Specialist

Food and Agriculture Organization

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FAO Afghanistan is investing throughout all 34 provinces, in resilience reinforcing actions that target defending agriculture livelihoods and native ecosystems, boosting native manufacturing of nutritious meals and cash-incomes, and safeguarding vital agriculture sectoral growth beneficial properties achieved over the previous couple of a long time by revitalizing rural markets and economic system. In 2024-2026, FAO will proceed to implement emergency and longer-term, resilience-building tasks and programmes within the context of the UN Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (UNSFA) and the Humanitarian Wants and Response Plan. 
The incumbent works below the general supervision of the FAO Consultant, and the direct supervision of the Head of Communications, Technique and Useful resource Mobilization Unit, in addition to in session with FAO employees and related stakeholders in Afghanistan.
The Media Specialist will assist the event of outreach and advocacy instruments and supplies in native languages, improve media and public relations, and undertake social media actions in step with FAO Afghanistan’s communications technique.
Obligations:
Media relations:
  • Foster and keep media relations with key Afghan media shops and journalists to assist elevate FAO’s profile and visibility.
  • Develop coproductions with Afghan media, together with radio, tv and social media channels.
  • Facilitate media interviews with the FAO Consultant and different FAO personnel.
  • Pitch press releases, tales and op-eds to related Afghan media.
  • Conduct media monitoring and put together media protection reviews on particular points, when requested. 
  • Replace the media contact record commonly. 
Public liaison: 
  • Develop efficient working relationships and agreements with nationwide stakeholders, together with civil society organizations and public establishments (corresponding to academia) energetic in FAO’s sectors of actions.
  • Seek the advice of with FAO workforce leaders in Kabul and the provinces frequently for up to date data and steering on strategic communication aims.
  • Work intently with companions corresponding to printers to make sure good communication merchandise. Carry out every other associated duties or features as assigned by the supervisor
Communications:
  • Translate supplies into Dari and Pashto and edit translations made by different FAO employees upon request
  • Conduct terminology analysis to make sure correct and applicable translations and coherence.
  • Accumulate data from the sphere on agriculture, meals safety, setting, irrigation, the agricultural economic system and so forth. to generate case research, lesson realized reviews and social media content material.  
  • Accumulate, overview, write and translate social media posts, notably for the FAO-AF Fb web page. 
  • Put together a month-to-month social media content material calendar with modern and issue-focused content material.
  • Take part within the growth of communications plans for campaigns or key occasions like The World Meals Day, World Meals Security Day, the Yr of the Camelids and so forth.
  • Be sure that all communication merchandise (brochure, publication, banners, publications) adjust to international FAO requirements
  • Liaison with the OCC shall be maintained, both immediately or by an agreed focus/coordinator, to make sure compliance with OCC requirements, applicable overview and clearance processes.
All communication supplies will observe FAO clearance processes and adjust to FAO requirements, together with:
Candidates Will Be Assessed Towards The Following:
Minimal Necessities:    
  • Superior College (Grasp) diploma or College (Bachelor) diploma in a related topic corresponding to agriculture, communication research, journalism, environmental sciences, vitamin and meals safety, social sciences, or a intently associated discipline.
  • For an Superior College diploma, a minimal of 5 (5) years of related topic corresponding to agriculture, communication research, journalism, environmental sciences, vitamin and meals safety, social sciences, or a intently associated discipline.
  • For College diploma, a minimal of seven (7) years of related topic corresponding to agriculture, communication research, journalism, environmental sciences, vitamin and meals safety, social sciences, or a intently associated discipline.
  • Working information (degree C) of English and the native languages (Pashto and/or Dari);  
  • Nationwide of Afghanistan. 
Technical/Purposeful Expertise:
  • Means to determine and resolve issues expeditiously and pragmatically;
  • Ought to possess tact, good initiative and sound judgment, and have the power to determine and keep good working relations with folks of various nationwide and cultural backgrounds;
  • Means to make use of a logical and structured method to collate, archive and synthesis data;
  • Effort to quickly assimilate FAO’s mandate.

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