The European Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) seeks to recruit a INFORMATION ASSISTANT to join its Regional Support Office
The European Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), is the European Commission department responsible for financing humanitarian assistance. ECHO finances a range of partners, which include NGOs, UN agencies and the Red Cross Movement, to provide assistance to people affected by both natural and manmade disasters.
The ECHO Office in Nairobi is a dynamic, multinational hub, providing technical support to ECHO'S operations in east, central and southern Africa.
This position is a senior national staff position.
1. Duties & Responsibilities
The Information Assistant (IA) will work in the Regional Support Office for east, central and southern Africa, and will assist ECHO'S Regional Information Officer in Nairobi as well as ECHO'S field offices throughout the region by providing support for ECHO'S communications and visibility activities.
The IA will be required to assist in the writing and editing of a wide range of internal and external communications products, provide technical support to the communications activities of ECHO'S partners and to assist in the design, preparation and distribution of ECHO visibility materials.
The IA may be required to travel extensively throughout the region.
2. Required Qualifications
- A university degree or the equivalent in media or communications.
- A minimum of five years work experience as a journalist or information officer.
- Work experience outside Kenya in an international setting is an advantage.
- Thorough understanding of humanitarian issues in east, central and southern Africa.
- Fluent written and spoken English. A working knowledge of French is an added advantage.
- Personal initiative and dynamism; ability to work both independently and in a team, with the ability to set priorities, and to work to tight deadlines;
- Commitment, determination, reliability and a high degree of personal integrity and discretion.
- Ability to generate innovative approaches to ECHO'S wide range of communications activities and to analyse and process information quickly and accurately.
- Ability to convey information clearly and concisely to others.
The Regional Administrative Coordinator,
European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO),
P.O. Box49991-00100,
Nairobi
By noon 14th November 2008 at the latest in a sealed envelope indicating the position applied for on the envelope. Candidates who have not been contacted by 30th November 2008 should consider that they have not been selected.
