Communications Officer Career Jobs at Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust

Organisation: The Agricultural Business
Initiative (aBi) Trust
Duty
Station: 
Kampala,
Uganda
About
aBi:
The Agricultural Business
Initiative (aBi) Trust is supporting agribusiness development in the private
sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s Competitiveness
and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). The Trust is a multi-donor entity
jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark and Uganda.
The mandate of aBi Trust is
to support the private sector actors to increase their contribution to the
agricultural sector by increasing land and labour productivity, and market
competitiveness thereby contributing to poverty reduction through economic
growth, wealth, and employment creation.
The aBi Trust strengthens
competitiveness of the Agricultural and Agro-processing sectors through three
(3) interrelated components: Value Chain Development (VCD) including
trade-related Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary and Quality Management Systems
(SPS/QMS), Financial Services Development (FSD) and a cross cutting Gender for
Growth (G4G) Fund.
Job
Summary:
The
Communications Officer will primarily be responsible for the development and
implementation of the Agricultural Business Initiative Trust’s communications
strategy and manage the Brand of the Trust in line with the strategic business
objectives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Develop
    and manage aBi Trust public relations programs to ensure that stakeholders
    and the general public are informed of the purpose, activities,
    limitations and achievements of the Trust;
  • Prepare
    regular (monthly and quarterly) and ad hoc performance reports for the
    Chief Executive Officer;
  • Gather,
    edit, and write content for and maintain the aBi Trust website and promote
    awareness of the site;
  • Prepare
    speeches for the Chief Executive Officer, the Board and other speakers for
    presentation at aBi and related occasions;
  • Be
    responsible for capturing, packaging, synthesizing and sharing aBi’s
    successes through methods such as success stories disseminated through the
    web site, Newsletter, conference presentations, case studies, and posts on
    the aBi blog;
  • Responsible
    for the development and dissemination of literature, including drafting
    regular and ad hoc Trust reports in consultation with the M&E officer.
    Chief Managers and the Chief Executive Officer;
  • Increase
    the profile of the aBi’s work by writing monthly success stories, fact
    sheets, drafting press releases, articles, etc., as noted in the annual
    work plan and informed by programme results;
  • Ensure
    and facilitate adherence to reporting requirements, including reviewing
    quarterly and annual reports for content and branding requirements and
    assisting with quarterly review slides and presentation as well as liaise
    with M&E Manager on final report preparation;
  • Offer
    on-going capacity-building support for programme staff on communications
    and knowledge exchange tools, templates, resources and approaches;
  • Develop
    programmes and activities aimed at strengthening aBi Image and corporate
    brand and be the custodian of the aBi Brand;
  • Manage
    aBi’s participation in external events (i.e trade shows and exhibitions)
  • Ensure
    access to information by authorized persons/agencies relating to the
    activities of the Trust, including performance against published
    benchmarks;
  • Perform
    other functions and duties that may be delegated to the position from time
    to time;
Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
  • The
    applicant should possess a University degree in Communication, Journalism,
    Public Relations;
  • An
    advanced university degree in a related discipline will be an advantage
  • Five
    (5) or more years of progressive responsible professional work experience
    in communication, print and broadcast media or interactive digital media
    with hands on experience with handling websites.
  • The
    applicant should have working knowledge of Formulating Strategies and
    Concepts;
  • Significant
    experience working with online content management system
  • Keen
    sense of graphic design; experience with Adobe Photoshop
  • Adept
    in using Microsoft Office applications, particularly PowerPoint; high
    proficiency with HTML
  • Excellent
    English writing and editing skills_
How
to Apply:
All suitably qualified and
interested candidates with a penchant for humanities should please send their
applications including detailed curriculum vitae giving three referees and
copies of academic and professional certificates / testimonials bye-mail only
to:  vacancy@abitrust.com.
Documents should not be more than 2GB.
Deadline: 13th December
2013

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