VACANCY - in AED/C-CHANGE Program

VACANCY - in AED/C-CHANGE Program

Position: PUBLIC RELATION (PR) SPECIALIST

Based: Jakarta

Supervisor: Country Director

CV submission: January 10, 2010

Duration of Assignment: It will start as of January 28 to August 22,
2011

Consultant Rate: Commensurate with experience and past
history results

Project summary:

USAID Indonesia awarded AED (Academy for Educational Development) a field
support grant through the C-CHANGE (Communication for Change) program in
Indonesia. The C-CHANGE program in Indonesia aims to ensure that the new
diarrhea treatment for children under five using ORS/Oralit and ZINC is
sustainable and at scale in Indonesia.

In Indonesia, zinc treatment has been adopted by Kementrian Kesehatan
Republik Indonesia (MoH/Ministry of Health) for the treatment of childhood
diarrhea. By July 2010 ten pharmaceutical companies marketed various zinc
products in the market. ZINC product is promoted through health
professionals such as to doctor and midwives by the pharmaceutical
companies. One of the C-Change key goals is to increase zinc awareness and
use, through media mix advertisement/ advertorial using for instance zinc
Public Service Advertisement, and creating diarrhea awareness events.

Position summary:

This PR Specialist is a Consultant position. He/she is an experienced person
in media communication to influence the audience, especially health
professionals and caregivers. He/she will also be an experienced person in
dealing with event creation for increased awareness. The PR Specialist will
work primarily with MOH, and to a lesser degree with zinc partners, doctor
and midwives organizations and other necessary stakeholders. This position
will work closely with the Country Director to achieve the goals of
increasing zinc awareness as new diarrhea treatment and at the end will help
increase zinc use through media mix advertisement.

Scope of Work:

a) Organize a meeting to share the results of household survey with the
relevant department heads at the MoH.

b) Advocacy at Central, and eventually selected provincial level for
increasing promotion of Zinc as new treatment for childhood diarrhea, using
Zinc PSA materials for TV or Radio

c) Create a Diarrhea awareness during national Children Day in July
2011, collaborating with MOH and necessary stakeholders

d) Develop advertorial for treating childhood diarrhea using Zinc and
ORS

e) Assist in the procurement of media mix placement such as TV, radio,
magazine and or print

f) Monitor, write and submit report on timely basis, and a summary
report at the end of the assignment.

Education:

Degree in Communication, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, Health or
other related disciplines.

Qualifications & Experiences required:

a) Having minimum 10 years working experience related to communications

b) Mandatory to have been working with MOH in the past, experience in
the private sector business will be an advantage

c) Having knowledge in the media and journalists networking will be a
plus point

d) Proven experience developing successful PR activities, events, and
media activities

e) Familiarity and good relationship with the health professional
associations, i.e.: IDAI, IBI and others

f) A team player with excellent skill in organizing and time
management

g) Excellent ability to adapt to new conditions, assignments and
deadlines.

h) Demonstrated ability to initiate innovative ideas, approaches and
activities in affecting behavior of target audience

Skills:

a. High degree of interpersonal and communication skills

b. Proven fluency in spoken and written English and ability to
communicate and write in bahasa Indonesia are a must

c. Having solid knowledge of MS Office

Mandatory:

Has his/her own electronic devices such as laptop, hand phone for mobile
operation.

This job will require at least 3 references from previous supervisors/
companies/ clients.

If your profile match with our scope of work and if you are interested with
the position, please send your application letter with Curriculum Vitae with
recent picture and historical last salary (GROSS) in IDR, include the
benefit) in soft copy file - not bigger than 750 KB, by January 10, 2011
to aed.cchange.indonesia@gmail.com Please do mention the title of the
position applied: "PR SPECIALIST".

Only persons with above qualifications are suggested to apply. All
applications will be treated confidentially, only short-listed candidates
will be contacted.