Communications Associate
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
工作地点
Islamabad
雇佣形态
全职工
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About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a highly talented Communications Associate to be a key resource in driving external and internal communications and supporting learning across projects in the Pakistan country office. This role will be based in Islamabad, Pakistan and is offered on a 2 years' fixed term contract subject to the availability of funding.
Reporting to the Country Director, the Communications Associate will support the development, coordination, and execution of the communication strategies to be implemented.
The post holder will be tasked with fostering a better understanding of GAIN’s work in Pakistan as well ensuring that GAIN’s information, advice, and guidance effectively reaches key audiences to increase the uptake of nutritious and safe diets.
Key Responsibilities include:
• Developing media plans to coordinate outreach to the public and ensuring media and messaging are consistent with GAIN’s brand
• Managing media relations and delivering media briefing kits including press releases or live streaming press conferences and after event transcript files for high level selected milestones
• Strengthening and positioning the digital communications at country level through targeted digital engagement and positioning
• Ensuring that the GAIN Pakistan’s digital media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) are well maintained, updated, and aligned to GAIN’s corporate digital communications
• Building internal communications capacity by providing timely and effective information on key developments and initiatives to GAIN Pakistan staff and promoting stronger staff engagement
• Supporting with the delivery of communications training for in-country teams for high impact communications delivery
About You
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in communication, print and broadcast media as well as working on social media and digital media as a Coordinator or Officer, ideally with exposure to the international development sector. You will have strong experience in working with the development of private sector in terms of media promotion with a proven ability to produce a wide range of communication content including reports, fact sheet, news, article, features, case study etc.
The postholder will also have proven ability of developing and managing communications strategy and coordinating internal and external communications. Candidates’ with expertise and experience of working in communication with Government, UN, development partners, media, and research agencies will be a plus.
You will be a dynamic individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be willing to work in multicultural and cross-functional environments. In addition to this, you will possess fluent written and spoken English.
A Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations or journalism, international relations, development studies or related field is required. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills, and candidates’ with proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud Programmes (Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator) is an additional asset.
About our Offer
The starting salary on offer for this role is from PKR 1,732,836 – PKR 1,986,420 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.
GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance.
We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.
About GAIN
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.
GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.
Our Working Culture and Environment
We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
rently based and have the existing right to live and work in the Islamabad, Pakistan region to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 14th August 2023. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in
