Media Specialist

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• Foster and maintain media relations with key Afghan media outlets and journalists to help raise FAO’s profile and visibility.
• Develop coproductions with Afghan media, including radio, television and social media channels.
• Facilitate media interviews with the FAO Representative and other FAO personnel.
• Pitch press releases, stories and op-eds to relevant Afghan media.
• Conduct media monitoring and prepare media coverage reports on specific issues, when requested. 
• Update the media contact list regularly. 

• Develop effective working relationships and agreements with national stakeholders, including civil society organizations and public institutions (such as academia) active in FAO’s sectors of activities.
• Consult with FAO team leaders in Kabul and the provinces on a regular basis for updated information and guidance on strategic communication objectives.
• Work closely with partners such as printers to ensure good communication products. Perform any other related duties or functions as assigned by the supervisor

• Translate materials into Dari and Pashto and edit translations made by other FAO staff upon request
• Conduct terminology research to ensure accurate and appropriate translations and coherence.
• Collect information from the field on agriculture, food security, environment, irrigation, the rural economy etc. to generate case studies, lesson learned reports and social media content.  
• Collect, review, write and translate social media posts, particularly for the FAO-AF Facebook page. 
• Prepare a monthly social media content calendar with innovative and issue-focused content.
• Participate in the development of communications plans for campaigns or key events like The World Food Day, World Food Safety Day, the Year of the Camelids etc.
• Ensure that all communication products (brochure, newsletter, banners, publications) comply with global FAO standards
• Liaison with the OCC will be maintained, either directly or through an agreed focal point/coordinator, to ensure compliance with OCC standards, appropriate review and clearance processes.

• Advanced University (Master) degree or University (Bachelor) degree in a relevant subject such as agriculture, communication studies, journalism, environmental sciences, nutrition and food security, social sciences, or a closely related field.
• For an Advanced University degree, a minimum of five (5) years of relevant subject such as agriculture, communication studies, journalism, environmental sciences, nutrition and food security, social sciences, or a closely related field.
• For University degree, a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant subject such as agriculture, communication studies, journalism, environmental sciences, nutrition and food security, social sciences, or a closely related field.
• Working knowledge (level C) of English and the local languages (Pashto and/or Dari);  
• National of Afghanistan. 

• Ability to identify and resolve problems expeditiously and pragmatically;
• Should possess tact, good initiative and sound judgment, and have the ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Ability to use a logical and structured approach to collate, archive and synthesis information;
• Effort to rapidly assimilate FAO’s mandate.

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