Communication Officer at Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, support, and promote CFHI organization goals, including message development, social media content creation and media outreach.
• Develop and disseminate public relations materials that increase CFHI visibility among stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with journalists, bloggers, investors, and customer audience that will help advance CFHI’s work.
• Identify target audiences and create strategies to effectively engage them.
• Ensure digital marketing content aligns with CFHI brand’s identity and message and assist with marketing campaigns as needed.
• Provide editing quality assurance for all CFHI’s IEC materials to ensure written text is free of errors.
• Design infographics, newsletters, annual reports, proposals, brochures, and any other documentary.
• Publish CFHI’s work online; e-mail copy, infographics, video scripts, social media posts and other content.
• Hardware repairs
• Update CFHI’s website regularly.
• Produce a monthly newsletter covering CFHI’s work in the head office at Abuja, and in other states where it operates.

Others:

• Select and work with external vendors, including graphic designers and printers and liaise with relevant print and news media to cover relevant CFHI’s programs
• Actively participate in the implementation of project activities where your specialized strategic information and communication skills are relevant.
• Ensure all staff systems are always in good condition.
• Perform any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the Director or her Designee.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Social / Health Science, Information Communications Technology, Public Administration, Mass Communication, Health Communication, or any related discipline.
• Experience in graphic designs, photography, and videography.
• 2-3 years of experience in writing and editing content for digital and print.
• Demonstrated skills in documentary and online research.
• Experience working and reporting on results for donor funded public health projects.
• Advanced skill with technologies and software such as Microsoft Office.
• Advanced skills in graphic designs especially Corel draw and Adobe Photoshop.
• Expertise with clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong negotiating skills.