Communications Specialist

CARE Nepal is an international humanitarian organization working in the country for the past 36 years. It currently works in 44 districts through various programs on issues relating to improving the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable populations through programs that work on the following themes: food security and climate change; emergency preparedness and DRR; migration and urbanization; sexualreproductive and maternal health; gender based violence; women and girls’ leadership. Marginalized Women and Adolescent Girls are our two primary impact groups. Core priorities include investment in the empowerment and leadership of women and girls, reaching hard to reach population, good governance and accountability, working in partnership and alliance with like-minded actors, and evidence-based advocacy.
CARE Nepal hereby invites applications from interested candidates for the following full time position for an Integrated Education, Health and Nutrition project ‘Awasar’ targeted at hard to reach children especially in the upper belt of mountain districts (Bajura and Mugu) to improve their nutritional and educational status. This is a 3 year project designed to address the basic education and nutritional requirement among the school going age children and their families living in harsh climatic conditions of upper part of the project districts. The project also intends to equip the local organisations with the skills to manage their own groups/organisations, resource identification and mobilisation for sustainable education models, model behaviour for hygiene & sanitation, and food habits and consumption practices in the communities.

Communications Specialist

Organisation Name :Care Nepal
Organisation Type :NGO / INGO / Development Projects
Published on :The Himalayan Times
Published Date :November 19, 2014
Category :NGO / INGO / Social work
Job Type :Full Time
Job Level :senior
Salary :-
Educational :Master
No. of Vacancies :1
Job Location :Kathmandu
Apply Before :December 2, 2014 [12 days left]

Educational Description

  • Master’s degree in media, mass communications, advocacy, documentation.

Job Specification

  • And dissemination skills with good understanding and knowledge on the upper hill population, and their survival strategies and practices particularly in relation to their education and livelihood and or any other relevant field with a minimum of 3 years experience.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:
  • The Communications Specialist is responsible for the overall communications and advocacy initiatives of the project and will be responsible to provide input for the information campaign in Denmark during 2015 and provide ongoing updates for CARE Denmark and act as the communication link between CARE Denmark and the project areas. S/he will support project communication efforts in Nepal to be used as part of the project advocacy and scaling up strategy. The incumbent will report to Project Coordinator designated for the project at CARE country office.

Apply Instructions

Interested candidates are encouraged to obtain the Application form and a detailed Job description from our website at www.carenepal.org and submit the same along with an application letter to the email address below. The last date for submitting the application is 17:00hrs, 2 December 2014.
The Human Resource Department, CARE Nepal
Email: apply@np.care.org
Please indicate the position title while applying for on the subject of your application Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Telephone enquiries will not be entertained.
“CARE Nepal is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of diverse background, women and differently abled, to apply”