Communications Specialist - Air Quality

- Designing and implementation of the communications strategy for the project in consultation with the Strategic Communications Lead, Chief of Party and the USAID team.

- Be the point person organization end to provide all communication materials or inputs to the USAID Agency Office Representative on the programme.

- Ensure that tone and messaging of every project output is consistent with the overall project communications strategy.

- Collaborate and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders including programme partners to maintain a steady flow of information and ensure synergies in outreach and communications.

- Collaborate with other members of our outreach team and external vendors on executing outputs planned as part of the communications strategy and project.

- Ensure adherence to the branding and marking guidelines of the project.

- Ensure quality control of all communications products as per organizations standards for the entire project (including products created by partners).

- Ensure strict adherence to outreach processes.

- Lead the conceptualization and design of websites and dashboards in coordination with the digital team.

- Curate content for dedicated webpages for the project.

- Work closely with the media lead to provide relevant content to the media on a regular basis, identify journalists covering air quality issues and pitch interesting stories to relevant media.

- Lead on the publications process for all reports, policy briefs, issue briefs, papers under the project in close collaboration with the publications team.

- Lead on events process to execute dialogues, roundtable discussions, webinars under the project, in close collaboration with the events team.

- Develop consumable content for a variety of communications material including blogs, press releases, newsletters, social media, videos among others.

- Identify innovative written formats to publicize air quality research and updates from the project. This could include debates and explainers to make our analysis consumable for range of audiences.

Other Responsibilities

- Assist with building a database and relationships with a wider community of experts, scholars, institutions and potential donors.

- Respond to research requests from senior researchers, discuss research needs, and prepare responses that synthesise and analyse information.

- Support the outreach team on content-related and coordination activities as and when required.

- Support the Strategic Communications Lead and Communications Specialist on special projects.