Senior Program Officer - Media at Breakthrough ACTION

Summary

The Senior Program Officer - Media assists the Senior Programme Officer II - Media in leading the Media Unit to develop and implement innovative media-based Social and Behavior Change Communications strategies for BA-Nigeria. S/he will work with media partners to develop content for SBCC content for all health areas being implemented by the project.

Specific Duties include:

• Oversee the development of media content (radio and TV) within the Media Unit according to needs of BA-N programmatic units, including working with production agencies, or coordination outsourced production work to consultants, and performing recording and production independently as required.
• Lead the strategic communication process while strengthening the capacity of BA-Nigeria staff, including drafting creative briefs to guide creative development and execution of creative designs.
• Lead communications pretesting activities, including drafting of Pretest Tools, budgeting, working with state-level teams to implement pretesting, and compilation and analysis of results.
• Build the capacity of content producers in BA-N project states to become script to screen producers;
• Work closely with the M&E team to ensure media content is based on evidence and audience insight, using data to prioritize ideational factors and segment audiences to optimize messaging.
• Maintain and manage relationship with all internal and external media/project stakeholders;
• Keeping good records of all BA-N’s media contents and their broadcast status.
• Work closely with the Program Officer II- Documentation and Knowledge Management to ensure project successes are well captured and documented;
• Other duties as assigned by the SPO II – Media and the SBC & Innovations Advisor.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum of HND/Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, Media Studies or similar Arts or Social Sciences fields.
• Previous experience of producing radio or TV content for development
• Good understanding of audience research and application of research findings;
• Minimum of 7-10 years’ experience working with donor-funded projects in related tasks
• Well-organized, with ability to track multiple activities and deadlines
• Ability to work successfully in a cross-cultural, team-based environment
• Radio and TV production skills, report writing skills.
• Working Knowledge of MS Office Packages and media softwires and applications e.g. Adobe Audition and Premier Pro.