Grants and Media Officer

A USAID funded project based in Ramallah seeks to fill the following vacant position: Activities

 

 

 

Main tasks & responsibilities:
-Work with supervisor to identify potential partners to support increased public confidence in the justice sector.
-Coordinate and monitor media activities to ensure optimum efficiency and compliance with appropriate objectives, policies, procedures and specifications.
-Assist in evaluating outreach and grants to develop improved methods; devises evaluation methodology and implements; analyzes results and recommends and/or takes appropriate action.
-Assist supervisor in initiating and/or monitoring all stakeholders' outreach activities, communications literature, audio and visual.
-Help develop potential grants ideas with civil society partners to support technical implementation and grants objectives.
-Ensure the flow of information and good communication between grant recipient CSOs and PJEP; providing recipient CSOs with information and instructions regarding the grants, its policies and procedures.
-Help monitoring all grant activities, in close coordination with grants team through field visits to partner offices and work locations.
-Work with justice sector institutions on engaging with civil society organizations to increase public awareness.
-Other tasks as required by the supervisor.

RELATED REQUIREMENTS, EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
-Previous experience with public relations and with the media/journalism
-Background in communications, including developing strategic communication plans highly preferred
-Extensive experience about civil society organizations working in the West Bank.
-Knowledge of grants and grants mechanisms.
-Familiarity with the justice sector in the West Bank.
-Strong communications and interpersonal skills required
-Previous work on USAID or other donor-funded projects highly preferred
-Strong organizational skills required.
-Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a relevant field
-A minimum of 5 years of experience in a relevant field
-Strong English skills; Arabic skill preferred

Interested applicants please send a cover letter and curriculum vitae (resume) to

, with the position title in the subject line, by Thursday May 17,2012. Application packages will be considered on a rolling basis. Qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview