Communication officer -Ukraine nationals only - Ukraine

Sievierodonetsk

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Sievierodonetsk
Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
Occupational Groups:
- Communication and Public Information
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Communications / PR
Closing Date: Closed

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

NRC is looking for Communication officer in our office in Severodonetsk.
The purpose of the Communication officer position is day to day implementation of communication functions in the Area office.

Job description

Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
Implement delegated communication function portfolio according to plan of action
Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
Ensure proper filing of documents
Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
Contribute to identification of specific protection risks and needs analyses
Contribute to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs.
Any other duties that will be assigned by AM/communication coordinator.
Establish and maintain contact with the local and regional level media
Assist communication coordinator in implementing communication and advocacy plan through mainstream and social media, public events, global website, drafting public information materials about NRC projects in Ukraine
Collect and draft material from the field for writing media and web stories profiling the humanitarian situation on the area operated
Maintain Country Programme's presence on Smugmug archive photo and video platform
Support communication coordinator and programmes in organisation of public events, round tables, meetings, conferences at the local level
Conduct media monitoring for daily and weekly digests focusing on how NRC is profiled in the national and local levels; humanitarian and political contexts
Prepare monthly media reports
Respond to media requests at the area level through providing them with information about programmes' activities, giving interview/comments, when necessary
Provide liaison with local authorities (facilitating meetings arrangements, maintaining correspondence with them, translating reports, etc.)
Develop bilateral working relationships with communication staff in UN, INGOs at the local level
Provide consecutive interpretation from Ukrainian and/or Russian into English Language and vice versa during meetings with authorities
Be responsible for filing electronic and hard copies in line with NRC filing system
Submit regular activity reports to NRC management
Perform any other tasks as requested by NRC management.

Qualifications

Min 3 years of experience from working as a communication, public information and media specialist in a humanitarian/recovery context would be an advantage
Higher education in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
Advanced knowledge of English
Proficient knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian languages
Pro-active approach and willingness to learn

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

Handling insecure environment
Planning and delivering results
Empowering and building trust
Communicating with impact and respect
Analyzing
Working with people

We offer

Contract period: 12 months.
Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy
Duty station: Severodonetsk

Miscellaneous info

Travel: Approx 25 days travel

This vacancy is now closed.