International Fertilizer Development Center Recruitment for Communication Officer

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for International Fertilizer Development Center Recruitment for Communication Officer.

The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is a science-based public international organization working to alleviate global hunger by introducing improved agricultural practices and fertilizer technologies to farmers and by linking farmers to markets.

Job Description

• Company: International Fertilizer Development Center
• Location: Ghana
• State: Accra
• Job type: Full-Time

Position Summary

2SCALE aims to both inform and involve all its program partners (smallholder producers, food processing companies and others), donors, embassies and interested professionals in agribusiness. The Communication Officer will be responsible for developing stories and content from program activities in close collaboration with 2SCALE colleagues.

Tasks

• Develop and disseminate a regular stream of communication materials, documenting program progress and achievements in 2SCALE program countries. These may include, but are not limited to:
  • Stories from the field (success stories, case studies, etc.)
  • Social media updates
  • Project briefs
  • Fact sheets
  • Photographs
  • Videos
• Identify, in consultation with the rest of the 2SCALE Communication Team, the most appropriate channels (print, web, social media, others) to target each stakeholder group.
• Provide regular updates and stories for the quarterly 2SCALE Enewsletter.
• Maintain and continuously expand the program’s contact database.
• Contribute, in close collaboration with the Communication Manager and Program Director, the compilation and editing of material for the 2SCALE annual report.
• Develop linkages with relevant knowledge/information-sharing platforms within and beyond the 2SCALE countries, to raise the program’s profile globally.
• Build a collection of high-quality photographs on 2SCALE work in the relevant countries, taking photographs herself/himself and identifying, contracting and supervising consultants (where necessary).
• Develop good working relationships with key media in all target countries.
• Develop and exploit synergies with communications staff from the 2SCALE consortium partners (IFDC, SNV & BoPInc).
• Coordinate the visualization, scripting and production of short videos on 2SCALE within program countries.
• Any other assignment that the supervisor deems necessary for the success of the program.

Position and duty station

The Communication Officer is a national position with a duty station in one of our four 2SCALE anglophone countries, depending on the residence of the candidate: Kenya (Nairobi), Ethiopia (Addis Ababa), Ghana (Accra) or Nigeria (Abuja). Note there will also be frequent travel to a selection of our program countries.

Supervision

The Communication Officer will work under the supervision of the Program Director of 2SCALE. She/ he will work in close consultation with 2SCALE’s Communication Manager, as part of a Communication Team that will also include an additional Communication Officer (who is based in Bamako, Mali).

How to Apply

Interested and suitably qualified candidates should CLICK HERE to apply.