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Communications Specialist Consultant AFO Project IFDC Kenya Office
4 months ago
About IFDC
IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soil on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.
IFDC through its AfricaFertilizer project, is currently seeking passionate individuals to join its team, as the organization continues to expand its impact and work towards creating positive changes in agriculture and sustainable soil management across the world.
Main objective of this role
AfricaFertilizer is seeking to recruit a Communication Specialist Consultant, who will be in charge of ensuring smooth and effective implementation of the Communication Strategies of the initiative.
The main objective is to strategically position AfricaFertilizer as the leading authority in fertilizer data and information across Africa. This entails effectively communicating our activities and outcomes to partners, thereby providing them with valuable insights to inform their business and policy decisions.
Responsibilities
The specific tasks are to:
· Updating and implementation of internal and external communications plans and strategies.
· Provide strategic and advisory communications support to the program leaders.
· Creating, planning, and maintaining an internal communications calendar, while executing comprehensive campaigns, engagement activities, and events.
· Collaborate with analysts in various countries to draft, edit, and distribute monthly and quarterly reports in English and French via online platforms.
· Ensure consistency in internal and external communication across all channels.
· Transform ideas into multimedia formats such as videos and animations.
· Create content, materials, and communication resources derived from workshops, partner meetings, etc., for dissemination on social media and other platforms.
· Provide training and support to enhance communication skills within the team.
· Oversee updates on AfricaFertilizer's social media channels, including LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.
· Assist in maintaining and updating content on the AfricaFertilizer website.
· Undertake any additional tasks assigned by supervisor(s) to support the AfricaFertilizer team.
Expected Outputs
The expected outputs at the end of the period include:
· Development of Communications plans and strategies for the project for internal donor reporting and external business development.
· Program leaders are supported with communication strategies and ideas.
· Internal communications are enhanced within the AfricaFertilizer Team and IFDC.
· Reports and newsletters are disseminated on time with appropriate branding.
· All communication materials sent out are consistent in content and branding.
· Contents are generated from ideas, workshops, materials and disseminated to stakeholders.
· The AfricaFertilizer team improves its efficiency in communication with partners and on social media platforms.
· Social media platforms are updated frequently.
· Content on Africa Fertilizer website is always up to date
Reporting and Work Relationships
The Communications specialist Consultant will report to the AFO Program Lead or his designee. The role will collaborate closely with other projects within IFDC as case maybe.
Salary Clause
The proposed monthly consultancy fee for this position is USD 1,500 payable in local currency at the exchange rate of the date of the contract
Location
This is a National/International recruitment with a duty station in the IFDC office based in Nairobi/Kenya.
Diversity Clause
IFDC is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, and offers equal employment opportunities based on ability, performance, and potential. Equal opportunity is integral to the recruitment and selection practices at IFDC. IFDC recognizes the value in recruiting employees with different backgrounds, knowledge, experiences, perspectives, and beliefs. IFDC recognizes and values the contribution of people with a diverse background in capabilities, experience, and perspectives. Diversity encompasses gender, age, experience, education, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and cultural backgrounds as well as other dimensions such as lifestyle and family responsibilities.
About Program/Project
AfricaFertilizer is an initiative led by the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) which began activities in 200. The Initiative implements activities across the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region with current support and funding from the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (BRFS). Key technical partners include Development Gateway (through the BMGF VIFAA Project), Wallace & Associates, the Africa Union Commission (AUC), and also receives technical and financial support from other projects implemented by IFDC in the field of fertilizer market development and soil fertility improvement, such as the Feed the Future EnGRAIS project in West Africa and the Soils Consortium project funded by the USAID Bureau of Resilience and Food Security.
AfricaFertilizer’s Vision is to be the leading provider of fertilizer data and information for Africa to support market transparency, improved decision making, for a more prosperous agriculture sector. AfricaFertilizer’s Mission is to be the provider of reliable, high-quality, unbiased data and information on fertilizer and soil fertility issues in Africa for promotion of sustainable agriculture in the Continent. To accomplish this, AfricaFertilizer is progressively working to develop, manage, facilitate, and share technical and market information on fertilizers in Africa to support the implementation of continental, regional, and national agricultural policies and regulations that benefit both the public and private sector, including smallholder farmers and agro-dealers.
