Communications and Reporting Officer

Position:Communications and Reporting Officer
Location: Ramallah, with travel throughout Palestine

Partners for Sustainable Development (PSD) is a Palestinian NGO working towards applying sustainable development approaches in community and economic development. PSD’s programs are implemented through a network of Community Learning and Development Centers (CLDCs) located in Jenin, Salfeet, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron and South Hebron. As part of its social development’s education programs and in partnership with a number of international foundations, investment groups, and multi national IT companies, the Palestinian private sector and the Palestinian government, PSD has recently launched the NETKETABi Project. NETKETABi aims to provide some 280,000 learning solutions NETBOOKs through three main components. 1) The Palestinian children and youth ages 6-18 will have access to NETBOOKs. 2) Content development and training that will allow these children and youth acquire new skills that prepare them for a highly competitive world and for knowledge based societies. 3) The integration of formal and informal education through well designed in classroom related activities, community learning and service learning approaches.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Communications and Reporting Officer supervises and manages the PSD’s Communications Department. S/he is responsible for the development of the PSD’s communications and outreach strategies that will help inform PSD’s partners, beneficiaries and the Palestinian public of PSD’s programs and future strategic plans and interventions. The Communications and Reporting Officer will also be responsible for all the reporting donors’ requirements, and developing and ensuring adherence of donors’ marking and branding strategies. The Communications and Reporting Officer will be managing the communications department team.

TASKS
-Supervision of all Communications staff by providing management oversight, mentoring, and coaching.
-Development and implementation of an appropriate communications strategy/system to document all project activities.
-General oversight of PSD’s activities to capture, categorize and disseminate information.
-Oversee logistics for major public relations events.
-Develop reports on project activity such as quarterly/weekly/monthly reports.
-Develop and edit website material.
-Develop organization’s outreach materials.
-Editing of all reporting and communications documents (In Arabic and English), to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency
  
QUALIFICATIONS
-3-5 years experience in communications PR, reporting in a multinational environment.
-Very strong track record in English language writing for PR and communications purposes.
-Strong skills in outreach, public relations and reporting.
-BA or Master’s degree in a related field
-Arabic is a plus.

Interested and qualifying Candidates should send their CV and cover letter by email to

no later than March 26, 2011.  Please indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Females are encouraged to apply.