Communication Associate - Public Relations & Outreach (Retainer)

1. Project Reporting, and Communication 

2. Monitoring and Progress Controls

3. Knowledge management and innovation

Project Reporting and Communication:

• Provide administrative support in developing monitoring, evaluation and reporting framework for projects;

• Assist and provide administrative oversight in the implementation of base line surveys;

• Assist the Project Managers, Project Coordinators and Project Engineers to implement the monitoring, evaluation and reporting framework in a standardized and coherent manner;

• Administrative Coordination and timely submission of donor reports as per agreement;

• Participate at project coordination meetings as and when required;

• Support the Project Managers in preparing press releases and articles on the Projects for both internal and external publications;

• Liaise with Reporting focal point of other offices on administrative and communication matters;

• Support the Project Managers in UNOPS involvement in the UNDAF/any other mechanism, by assisting in preparing or editing reports, meeting minutes, PowerPoint presentations and other documents as and when required;

• When required, support Project Managers in gathering and assembling information relevant to the development context in Tanzania;

• Support communication activities of all projects in Tanzania;

• Assist the Project Managers in managing the visibility requirements of the projects;

• Assist by developing administrative concepts and approaches and any other activities required for effective lesson learning and sharing within the organization;

Monitoring and Progress Controls:

• Assist in developing an effective monitoring, evaluations and reporting framework

• Timely reporting

• Draft  press articles for further review by the management of the office.

Knowledge management and Innovation:

• Ensure routine and effective capacity building activities are conducted in order to build the long-term and sustainable capacity staff.

• Participate in relevant Communities of Practice.

• High School education is required;
• Bachelors or equivalent in communications, journalism, media relations or any other relevant discipline is an asset.

• Certification in communications, monitoring and reporting is desirable.