WASH Communication & Liaison Officer to be based in Jakarta

POSITION VACANCY

WASH COMMUNICATION & LIAISON OFFICER (1 position)

Code : RJA/018/ADM/Communication & Liaison Officer/XI/11

Location : Jakarta

Start date : asap

Duration of contract : until 31 August 2012

This WASH activities partnership include private sector companies, national & local authorities, local NGO partner & community. Those are the parties where CLO should involve.

Objective 1: Manage all project-related communication materials

- Collect, update and analysis data regarding the progress of WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) projects and their humanitarian and social context through regular field visits

- Develop, update and review advertorials, press releases, Q/A and other materials in close collaboration with the other partners and in accordance with the communication activities table vs. AcF communication policy vs. constraints and requirement from the field

- Propose other communication initiatives to the partners and ACF HQ

- Gather, translate and archive pictures, video and other communication material directly or indirectly (articles, TV reports) released by the WASH projects

Objective 2: Organize / attend communication events

- Organize PR/Communication events such as media briefing, press conference, presentations in collaboration with the PR agency

- Design, prepare and review PPT presentations

- Attend those events as ACF representative

Objective 3: Facilitate communication related initiatives and ensure a smooth partnership between AcF, its main financial partners and its communication/PR contractors

- Plan field visits based on ToR from the partners and ACF’s ethical and operational requirements

- Organize and attend field visits of journalists, communication agencies and other stakeholders in close collaboration with WASH dept and the Communities

- Attend and minutes meetings with partners

- Formulate recommendations on communication related-matters from ACF perspectives

- Follow up the communication activities time-table and update it in accordance with the partners priorities and feasibility in the field

- Interface between ACF technical dept and other external entities

- Write the communication/visibility chapters of donors’ quarterly and final report

Objective 4: Participates in the project related communication activities for ACF WASH in Indonesia

- Formatting, Indonesian/English translation of WASH technical and non-technical documents (guidelines, manual, reports) on request of line manager, program manager, or ACF WASH Advisor in HQ

- Capitalize the WASH contact and networking achievements: partners’ emails, phone number, name cards

- Keep close contact with other WASH partners: related Indonesian Ministries, local and International NGO, suppliers, UN agencies

- Attend and represent the ACF WASH coordination during meetings with these partners

- Read thoroughly current and future ACF WASH proposal, and be able to “sell” these project to donors through meeting and power points presentation

- On demand of line manager or program manager, review (and correct spelling/format mistake) donor’s intermediary and final report.

Objective 5: Be the focal point for the WASH team and activities in Indonesia in term of communication and capitalization

- Organization of communication training to the WASH staff, in order to:

· improve the horizontal (team-team) and vertical (team-manager) internal communication

· improve external communication ACF-local NGO, ACF-institutional partner

· improve the skills of ACF/local NGO staff in term of how to manage a community meeting and how to transfer skills to local NGO or community workers

- Participate in the organization of GFS training : printing of visibility items, be the focal point for the printing of the booklets (between ACF logistic, printing company, WASH Advisor in the HQ and ACF program manager), logistic preparation of training (be the link between ACF WASH and logistic department)

- Gather and spread to ACF WASH team news and reports about water and sanitation in Indonesia

- Be the link between the WASH technical advisor in the HQ and the mission regarding some issues, such as designing/fund raising of new WASH projects, GFS training booklets, transmission of documents to HQ (booklets, ACF new hygiene posters and calendar and flipchart) on soft or hard copy according to request

- Other duties on request

Minimum qualifications/experience:

· Graduated in communication with an experience in humanitarian projects or WASH professional with skills in communication

· Strong interpersonal skills; capacity to manage a multi-actors work relationship

· Outstanding oral and written skills in Bahasa and English

· Well organized and dynamic person of smart appearance

· Sound understanding of the functioning and rationales of humanitarian projects (logic of intervention community based approach)

· Familiar with the PR/communication/advertising world

· WASH technical knowledge

· Mobility and versatility

Please submit your CV and Application Letter in English with at least two references to : acfrecruitment@yahoo.fr before Monday, November 28th, 2011 attn. to Human Resources Manager. Please put the code & title of position on your application. Due to the need the applications will be processed soon before closing date.

Only short list candidates will be contacted, tested and interviewed.

All ACF members are committed to respect the 6 leading principles of the organization: independence, non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, professionalism and transparency. ACF is an equal opportunity employer.