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Communications Manager, Nigeria Integrated Health Program

About Palladium:

 Palladium is a global company
working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and
livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power,
and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions
and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural
world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented,
motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender
identities.  

Palladium Americas:

Our
Americas’ business team has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in
Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America as well as
the Caribbean, fulfilling projects and assignments for clients from
institutions, corporations, governments, and foundations based in the Americas.
We have offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

This Opportunity:

USAID Nigeria IHP Project, a $225 Million USAID-funded
contract implemented by Palladium, IHP is an integrated health program
with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and
support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service
delivery and strengthening of health systems. It will focus its support for service
delivery in six intervention areas, family planning, malaria, routine
immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood
pneumonia/diarrhea.  

This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support
established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and
promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results. Specific
interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully
developed at the state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through
agreements with individual states, the program’s potential breadth is the
entire country with an emphasis on the north.
The Communications Manager will support its Headquarters team in
the project’s communications, media, advocacy, knowledge management and sharing
activities across the project.

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have
expertise in communications, providing strategic guidance and developing
appealing presentations of implementation results, we are interested in hearing
from you. 
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities
from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,
and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Primary
Duties and Responsibilities: 

1. Provide support in the management of the
   IHP social media presence
   
2. Provide support to the development of IHP
   communications, advocacy materials and success stories
   
3. Support to IHP events and initiatives
   
4. Contribute to IHP knowledge management and
   sharing
   

Works closely with
project leadership and relevant focal points to assist gathering information
and creating engaging content for social media channels internally and
externally and the website

• Update social media and other channels internally and externally in a timely manner, and keep them brand-focused
  
• Keeping up-to-date and analyzing social media and trends and ways of connecting with audiences
  
• Assist with generation of inbound traffic on social media and measure results on a regular, and where needed, on a daily basis to drive audience engagement and content reach, measure leads, response rate and quality and feedback
  
• Research, compile and produce reports on social media statistics on a regular basis and electronic surveys
  
• Maintain files, databases, and systems relevant to the digital presence
  

Track and monitor social media and report relevant information to
management team

• Design and create social media and other internal and external communication content (infographics, videos, GIFs, social media cards etc.)
  

Provide support to the
development of communications and advocacy materials

• Coordinate/draft briefing materials, press
  releases, key messages, media advisories, human interest stories,
  articles, brochures, leaflets etc
  
• Adaptation/rewriting of information
  received
  
• Provide strategic guidance to enhance
  internal (Palladium) and external visibility of the IHP project
  
• Graphic design support to create visual
  concepts. Includes designs for print and electronic media including for
  social media, brochures, user interfaces, product labels, reports etc
  
• Assistance to ensure printing and
  dissemination of publications and audio-visual materials etc
  
• Maintain library/ database of reference
  materials and photos
  
• Maintain up to date project information in
  the Corporate Project Registry and prepare project updates for all company
  bulletins and newsletters
  
• Update contact lists for donor and partner
  relations
  
• Photography support
  

Support to events and
initiatives

• Provide support on special events and
  initiatives per IHP project needs 
  

Contribute to knowledge
management and sharing

• Contribute to the identification of best
  practices and lessons learned
  
• Support to organize trainings and
  workshops on communication practices
  
• Support regular meetings of communications
  focal points
  

Provide/ exchange information with the Mission, Palladium HQ, as well as
local and global knowledge and communication networks

Qualifications:

• Experience working
  as a technical writer, preferably in the field of international
  development
  
• Journalistic
  background is preferred
  
• Knowledge
  and understanding of USAID programs, branding, communications style, and
  learning frameworks preferred
  
• Demonstrated
  leadership in communications, marketing, and/or public relations
  
• Experience
  translating technical documentation into easy to digest content 
  
• Knowledgeable of
  international development and public health technical concepts 
  
• Excellent written
  and verbal communication skills 
  
• Advanced
  skills using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and
  Excel)  
  
• Ability to manage
  work and make decisions on their own, as well as with a team 
  
• Effective organizational
  skills, including the ability to multi-task and work in a high-pressure
  environment 
  
• Willingness to take
  on additional tasks, as requested 

Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion – We welcome applications from all sections of society and
actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good
practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our
workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair
treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These
include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender
identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality,
veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

Safeguarding
– We
define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect
our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are
committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with
Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All
successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process
including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.