Communication and Reporting Officer (Re-advertisement)

Centre for Education and Development (CED), Somalia is a non-governmental humanitarian and development organization working in Somalia. CED responds to emergency and development needs in Somalia and assists Somali communities towards self-reliance. CED works with poor local communities through sustainable community development programs to overcome ignorance, hunger, injustice and inequality.

CED is seeking a dynamic, innovative and self-motivated professional to fill the position of Communication and Reporting Officer

Location – 70% Somalia and 30% Nairobi, Kenya

Purpose of the job

Under the overall and supervision of CED Program Coordinator, the Communications and Reporting Officer will assist CED in the collection and dissemination of information and communication strategy of the program, advocacy activities, donor liaising and fund-raising. He/she will represent CED in the UN and international agencies meetings in Nairobi, Kenya. He/she will make presentations and submit CED activities and achievement to all concerned partners and donors.

Responsibilities

1. Represent CED in meetings of the UN Clusters, International Agencies, donors and other technical and coordination meetings on behalf of CED.
2. Assist CED in advocacy, lobbying, and campaigns, project funding and fund-raising.
3. Develop organisational communication strategy plan
4. Develop and implement the CED’s different projects communication and visibility plan in line with the overall communication strategy of the program
5. Prepare and design high quality concept papers, project proposals for humanitarian and development program interventions and seek and identify sources of funding for new programs.
6. Prepare regular daily updates, weekly field reports, narrative progress reports, monthly reports, monthly updates, quarterly, reports and yearly organizations reports.
7. Ensure proper flows of information between the field and Nairobi coordination office for the preparation of reports as per project agreement schedule.
8. With input from the program team, produce high quality and easy to read quarterly and annual progress reports for CED programme management and other stakeholders.
9. Prepare project fact sheets and distribute them during the events with a view of sharing CED project activities with other stakeholders.
10. Provide high quality editing and formatting for all projects related activities.
11. With approval from the PC upload the success of the projects on the organization website while updating the same as the projects progresses towards completion.
12. Intensify and maintain a steady flow of information on the project to the Senior Management team (PM, ED, Management Team) , donors and development partners.
13. Support CED to improve monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems.
14. Closely monitoring the security situation in the program area.
15. Manage the production of range of information such as publications, leaflets, brochures, DVDs, videos reports etc in order to help CED to carry out effective programs interventions.
16. Redevelop/redesign and continuously update CED website to ensure maximum effectiveness.
17. Produce and disseminate articles, briefings, newsletters, press releases, short human interest stories, photographs, and other publication materials about CED activities to a wide variety of media including local and external media, donors, CED website, social media and variety of websites.
18. Collect case studies, short human-interest stories, success stories, interviews, photographs, videos from the programs as appropriate.
19. Liaise with the local and international media on issues of CED humanitarian interventions.
20. Prepare program visits and support partners, media and the other visitors to visit and monitor CED programs.
21. Facilitate at field level day-to-day humanitarian coordination and interventions.
22. Work with partners/organizations/community representatives, local authorities and help CED to strengthen collaboration and information sharing between CED and other organizations.
23. Work closely with CED field office and contribute to the development of field information management.
24. Share information and learning from experience in Somalia with relevant partner organizations.
25. Facilitates the communication and coordination with in CED sections and follow of information.
26. Responsible for all matters related to public relations.
27. Translates the main events daily news papers in to English & Arabic (daily headlines)
28. Responsible for the preparation of the minutes of CED Program, weekly, monthly, quarterly and Extra-ordinary meetings.
29. Develop and maintain up-to-date context analysis and risk assessment analysis of the context and developments in relation to the security situation.
30. Maintain close contacts with all relevant stakeholders to develop a network and build relationships with key actors to ensure gathering of reliable security information.
31. Ensure that all staff and visitors receive appropriate briefing.
32. Ensure that an appropriate system is in place to provide security information to travellers in advance of their departure.
33. Provide timely and sound advice to ED and Program Directors and staff on communication, public relations and security matters.
34. Any other duty assigned by CED Executive Director from time to time.

Qualifications

1. Advanced University degree in communications, media studies, international development, humanitarian affairs, international relations, social science or other relevant area.
2. Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience with NGOs and Donors particularly in the area of fundraising, advocacy, communication and information management.
3. Strong experience in fund-raising and partnerships strategies.
4. Good information management and analyses of information.

Languages

Fluency in Somali and English both written and spoken is essential.

General Skills

1. Exceptional communication skills
2. Excellent negotiation and problem solving skills
3. Good planning and analytical capacities
4. Good Research skills
5. Ability and willingness to travel frequently in difficult circumstances to CED project sites in Somalia.
6. Ability to work effectively under extreme conditions and under pressure.
7. Flexibility and patience required

HOW TO APPLY:

If you meet the criteria herein please submit your application and detailed CV. Each applicant package will include the following:

1. Cover letter explaining why consider yourself qualified for this position with the applicants current contact information
2. CV including work experience and education
3. Copies of Certificates
4. Your contact number, present salary and contact details for three professional referees with their complete contact information (including current or most recent supervisor)

All applications should be sent to Abdullahi Ali Hassan, Abdullahi.ali@cedafrica.org and copied toced.somalia@gmail.com with the subject of the e-mail marked “Communications and Reporting Officer” By July 25th 2015.