Vacancy - Communications Officer - Indonesia Climate Change Center

The National Council on Climate Change (Dewan Nasional Perubahan Iklim, DNPI) with the cooperation and support from the U.S. Forest Service
(USFS), is seeking for a Communications Officer to support the Indonesia Climate Change Center (ICCC).

Background
U.S. President Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono announced the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership in
2010, which consists of several initiatives to strengthen the bilateral
cooperation to confront the challenges of the 21st century. These wide
arrays of programs were framed under 6 Working Groups, namely Democracy
and Civil Society; Education; Climate and Environment; Trade and
Investment; Security; and Energy.
Under the Climate and Environment Working Group, the National Council on Climate Change and the U.S. Forest Service have identified the need
to strengthen the capacity of ICCC. ICCC is a resource center to produce science-based policies. ICCC also serves to encourage robust
science-policy linkages in support of actions to deal with issues of
climate change in Indonesia.
ICCC comprises three key institutional elements: (1) Secretariat as a facilitator of the Center, (2) Steering Committee as a body to direct
as well as advise strategically of center operation, (3) Research
Clusters, consisting of Low Emission Development Strategies, Peatland
and Mapping, Climate Resilience and MRV for Climate Programs, as
supportive entities in building science-based policy and programs
development.
As the development of ICCC is still in its infancy, the National
Council on Climate Change recognises that a good communication strategy
is central, both in disseminating the importance of the ICCC to the
policy makers and scientific communities, and in creating demands for
ICCC to produce assessment of a science-based policy that can address
climate change challenges.
In support of this, the National Council of Climate Change, as the
host of ICCC, has proposed to hire a Communications Officer to assist
the center in implementing the communication strategy and the daily
programs.

Management Arrangements
The Communications Officer will report to the DNPI’s officials in charge of ICCC and receive guidance from them

Objectives
The objectives of hiring a communication officer include, but not limited to, the following activities:
* To implement the communication strategies and programs of the ICCC
* To produce communication materials of the ICCC
* To provide feedbacks and recommendations on the ongoing communication strategies and programs
* To produce reports on the ongoing communication activities
Expected Outputs
The communication officer is expected to provide outputs as follows:
* Communication materials (may include but not limited to press
releases, fact sheets, brochures, social media materials, and ICCC
updates)
* TORs for specific communication activities
* Activities Reports
* Evaluation reports
Qualifications:
* University degree, preferably in Communications, Public Relations or Journalism
* 3-5 years project management experience, must demonstrate experience in all levels of the project management cycle
* Ability to work independently and efficiently
* Ability to meet strict deadlines and work well under pressure
* Experience with daily webpage updating
* Experience in working with graphic designers to produce proffesional publications; portfolio required
* Experience writing press release, project backgrounders and newsletters; portfolio required
* Ability to shoot and edit photographs for PR purposes; portfolio required
* Strong writer, journalism or other relevant experience appreciated
* Language requirements: proffesional Indonesian Bahasa (spoken and written); Excellent English (spoken and written)
* Familiarity with Climate Change issues would be advantageous
Please send application letter addressing the above qualifications
and experience with your curriculum vitae (all in PDF format) at the
latest July 24, 2013 to ICCC Secretariat, Ms. Eryka: info@iccc-network.net