Communications Manager at RTI International

Essential Duties

• Communicate KCDMS performance by processing, packaging and disseminating a wide range of Information, success stories, learning pieces and reports among relevant stakeholders.
• Technical Documentation and Reporting: work in collaboration with component leads, MEL team and Home office support team (Based in America) to edit, brand, and finalize KCDMS technical reports including but not limited to Bi-weeklies, Value chain analysis studies, quarterly reports, Annual report and work plan among others.
• Knowledge management: Facilitate development of KCDMS Information, Education and Communications (IEC) materials and effective dissemination of the same through the most appropriate channels.
• Maintain the USAID branding and Marking plan: provide guidance to teams internally and externally on how best to go about USAID branding on a need by need basis. Ensuring that the branding requirements are upheld.
• Maintaining the KCDMS photo database/video library: Continuously highlight the KCDMS interventions through photography and video documentation by external teams (Home office photographers etc.)
• Success story and learning pieces documentation: support finalization the learning pieces and success stories, and support dissemination to stakeholders.
• Events Management: Support the component teams to plan and execute events both the KCDMS initiated/ industry driven events and guide on branding requirements.
• Support activity efforts towards Behavior Change Communications.
• Media and publicity support: be a liaison for KCDMS media engagements with the USAID and other stakeholders.
• Social media support: consistently update/create any relevant activity pages following approval and work towards content generation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, PR, Mass Media or Information Science and 12 years of experience, Master's degree and 10 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to handle different communication formats.
• Demonstrate high sensitivity and tolerance to cultural, religious, racial, national origin, age and gender issues.
• Demonstrate discretion in the handling of sensitive and/or confidential issues.
• Use technology tools effectively.
• Execute the communication process in knowledge management.
• Follow the editions and archiving procedures of RTI and USAID
• Support the elaboration and edition of reports.