Lowongan Public Relation (pr) Specialist - Academy For Educational Development

ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC RELATION (PR) SPECIALIST

VACANCY - in AED/C-CHANGE Program

 

Based: Jakarta

Supervisor: Country Director

CV submission: June 2011

Duration of Assignment:It will start as of June 1 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-CHANG (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:

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

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.

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

Develop advertorial for treating childhood diarrhea using Zinc and ORS.

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

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:        

Having minimum 10 years working experience related to communications

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

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

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

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

A team player with excellent skill in organizing and time management

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

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

Skills:    

High degree of interpersonal and communication skills

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

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 :

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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.