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Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Head of Communications with identifying and writing key information, stories, photographs, and visuals, updates to share with donors/partners through website, monthly news bulletins, newsletter, annual report, Facebook, and other means.
• Sub-edit and edit stories and updates received from Program staff in line with the organization’s communication guidelines
• Support effective implementation of visibility plans by maintaining knowledge of all Community World Service Asia’s current projects, assigned tasks within visibility plans, and ensuring timely completion of assignments.
• Travel to the field, when necessary, to collect information (stories, interviews, photos, and videos) from project activities or provide support in training activities, at local and international levels
• Apply initiative and creativity to offer new or improved ideas for communications output, practices, and systems.
• Assist Project Manager with identifying and writing key information, stories, photographs, sub-editing and visuals, updates to share with partners
• Ensuring Communications Guidelines are followed
• Editing of photos and designing of basic communication material.
• Maintain effective recordkeeping to ensure accurate and timely filing of soft and hard copies of Communications Office material and correspondence, documentaries, and photographs.
• Ensure all communications outputs are of the highest quality in terms of content and final presentation. This includes any written, audio, or visual aspects of the material.
• Arranging communication related orientations for project staff i.e. photography and documentation of case stories in Kabul and other offices in Afghanistan.
• Ensuring Communications Guidelines are followed
• Liaising with consultants working on Communication outputs
• Ensure all communications outputs reflect Community World Service Asia, its work, and its stakeholders in a transparent, reliable, and understandable manner.
• All processes, interactions, and methods of obtaining information must also adhere to Community World Service Asia's commitment toward accountability and particularly for preserving the dignity of the communities we assist.

The responsibilities listed above cover most of the tasks that would be performed by the individual in this position; however, the employee can also be assigned other relevant official tasks by Supervisor and/or Management as and when required. 

Technical Competencies:

• Excellent organizational, information management, and analytical skills
• Very good English writing and speaking skills
• Social media savvy and confident, willing and able to learn in a dynamic web-based environment
• Skills in photography and videography
• Ability to work well independently and in a team              
• Knowledge of local languages preferred
• Must be tolerant and sensitive to needs of religious and ethnic minorities, women and the poor.

IT: Word, PowerPoint, Adobe, DSLRs, Web-based soft wares and able to well present and analyse information.

Languages: Excellent command of English and local languages.