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EpiC Central Asia Project Description:
Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is an eight-year global project funded by the U.S. Presidentโs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). EpiC is dedicated to achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control and the project provides strategic technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery (DSD) to break through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment programming.
In 2020, FHI 360 through EpiC launched a new multi-year project in Central Asia being implemented in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Building on the successes to date in the three countries, EpiC is focusing on expanding HIV case finding in the community, and treatment initiation, adherence, and retention support for people living with HIV (PLHIV), with a focus on select key population groups. While EpiC takes a regional approach in the overarching management of the Central Asia project, each country has its own respective targets, priority focus areas and expected deliverables.
The EpiC project is also well positioned to strengthen global, regional, and local public health systems to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases, building on broad experience and existing capabilities that align with GHS priorities, National Action Plans for Health Security (NAPHS), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) goals. With presence in more than 60 countries and extensive breadth and depth of technical experience in the 11 priority GHS technical areas, FHI 360 and our consortium partners are ready to rapidly implement GHS programming.
Job description:
The EpiC Kyrgyzstan Communications Officer (CO) will be directly reporting to EpiC Kyrgyzstan Project Director and working in close collaboration with the EpiC Central Asia Regional Communications Manager. The CO will:
lead the development of and provide technical assistance to project partners in designing and developing communication materials, campaigns and tools that will aim to increase the uptake of HIV services;
lead activities to increase awareness of local and international partners, project beneficiaries and general population about EpiC HIV and GHS activities;
ensure proper knowledge management and sharing of project outputs and results to both external and internal audiences.
Position Responsibilities
Lead design and implementation of the country communication activities, their digital adaptation, social media outreach, planning, monitoring and evaluation, including the digital adaptation of learning modules and training activities on HIV service delivery and prevention and GHS and related capacity building initiatives.
Implement Marking and Branding Plan in compliance with USAID and FHI360 regulations and provide assistance to staff on its proper implementation and ensure all technical and operations documents to comply with marking and branding requirement, edit and submit final activity documents.
Develop, pre-test, and produce offline and digital communication tools based on evidence-based theories and methodologies, in line with the communications strategy.
Produce and/or manage regular content plans, calendars and updates for USAID to ensure timely refreshing of project-related social media content and activities.
Monitor social engagement and track conversion across project-supported platforms to test and iteratively improve online communications and client recruitment strategies.
Guide the design and execution of client-friendly websites, information dashboards, knowledge portals and e-newsletters. Monitor it as an administrator.
Provide technical support to the project partners on social media outreach and other marketing needs.
Support the preparation of speeches, talking points, slide presentations, images, briefers, press releases, and pitches for a wide range of events.
Work with the SI staff to monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of project activities. Introduce innovative models for measuring/attributing social media demand generation and audience engagement toward project goals.
Document project results and impacts in various forms, including media stories, lessons learned, case studies, client satisfaction, and other areas that contribute to quarterly and annual reporting.
Arrange, sustain and support effective communication with mass-media, social media and influencers to present project results to both broad and targeted audiences.
Performs other relevant duties as assigned by the Regional and Country management team.
Qualifications
BS/BA (Mass Communication, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Philology, Development Communications, Journalism, or related field).
At least 5 years of hands-on experience on communication, public relations and communication, and work in/with social media campaign planning and digital platforms and advertising and implementing activities to promote gender equality and social inclusion, preferably in the health sector.
Ability to design visual content for digital social media campaigns, websites and mobile apps.
Ability to write campaign, website content, scripts, creative materials, and project documents.
Proven experience in managing data collection and providing technical expertise in gender equality, social inclusion and woman empowerment.
Must be able to thrive in a diverse, fast-paced collaborative studio environment and have superb time management skills.
Ability to work on problems that are diverse in scope and require judgment in resolving or making recommendations for solutions.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a team member.
Articulate, professional, and able to communicate in a clear, positive manner.
English and Russian language fluency required; Kyrgyz fluency preferred.
Prior work experience in USAID funded programs with disease prevention and control portfolio and/or INGOs and donors represented in Kyrgyzstan preferred.
Travel Requirements:
50%, mostly within the Kyrgyz Republic
The position is open to Kyrgyz residents and will be based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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