Communications Consultant –GAVI REACH at International Rescue Committee

Position Summary:

• The IRC seeks the services of a Communications Consultant for Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian Settings” (REACH), a three-year $50 million project funded by Gavi and focused on increasing vaccination coverage among children under 5 in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.  The Communications Consultant will focus on helping the project establish a communications and advocacy strategy; establish project branding; provide editorial support for key outputs and support on development of key outputs and support preparation for upcoming project-wide workshop (Sept 2023). This individual will report to the Monitoring, Evidence, Research and Learning (MERL) Lead and work closely with Technical Teams and IRC Comms.
• The individual will ensure that the project’s messaging is consistent and engaging and lead on communications needs for Gavi REACH including preparing and updating various communications outputs, leading communications needs for Gavi REACH events, liaise with IRC Communications team on project communications and provide support for reporting and other documents generated by Gavi REACH.

Responsibilities:

Task 1: Develop project communications plan (including dissemination strategy & budget (country level and project-wide)

Output/deliverable for Task 1:

• Final REACH Communications plan (including dissemination strategy) & budget

Task 2: Partner with Health Unit’s Policy, Advocacy and Communications to develop project advocacy plan

 Output/deliverable for Task 2:

•  Final REACH advocacy plan

Task 3: Provide communication support for Learning Agenda
Output/deliverable for Task 3:

• Develop select outputs linked to Learning Agenda
• Training webinar/materials on documenting learning at country level

Task 4: Establish social media presence and develop social media kits
Output/deliverable 4:

• Gavi REACH social media accounts set up
• Gavi REACH Social media kit established

Task 5: Establish branding for Gavi REACH project
Output/deliverable 5:

• Final REACH branded PowerPoint templates
• Final REACH branded report templates
• Final REACH branded learning/technical brief templates
• Final branding and marking plan for Gavi REACH

Task 6: Format and do editorial review of all reports and key outputs deliverables from project
Output/deliverable 6:

• Final, copy-edited Quarterly reports
• Final learning outputs
• Final technical outputs
• Policy Brief designed and circulated

Task 7: Support for Gavi REACH events (including Sept 2023 Consortium workshop)
Output/deliverable 7:

• Social media kit and a central messaging document ahead of key events in September
• Final edited presentations
• Final edited workshop materials (agenda, guidance documents, workshop report)

Inputs from IRC:

• Agreed upon consultancy fee payment by deliverables.
• Access to documents on work done on the REACH project
• Access to key IRC resource persons globally and at country level.

Key working relations

• Position Reports to: Monitoring, Evidence, Research and Learning (MERL) Lead; works with Gavi REACH Technical Team; IRC Comms teams

Qualifications

•  Education: A degree in Communications, Public Health, Journalism, International Relations, Public Relations or a related field.
• Minimum Master’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience in working in media, journalism, advocacy, and communications and marketing
• Experience in global health or global development required.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in policy, advocacy and/or communications for global health
• Knowledge of desktop publishing software
• Outstanding writing, editing, and social media skills. 
• Ability to work independently and generate creative solutions and approaches to documenting project learnings.
• Experience developing technical, learning briefs and other key communications outputs for health projects.
• Preferred experience supporting public health projects, programs, or initiatives.
• Very good technical affinity for media contexts including knowledge of a wide range of multimedia, web, and digital tools.