Employment Opportunity » Communications and Outreach Manager

Communications and Outreach Manager  [relisted 10-15-08]

 

Ecoagriculture Partners (www.ecoagriculture.org) is a small but rapidly-growing international non-profit organization working to facilitate landscape management approaches that simultaneously enhance food security, support rural livelihoods and conserve the environment.

EP seeks a Communications and Outreach Manager to join our committed team by January/February 2009, based in Washington, DC. The Communications & Outreach Manager will:

• Support staff in program-specific outreach activities; 
• Edit EP reports, publication, and outreach materials;
• Manage content for the EP website, and manage and expand the EP listserv;
• Maintain information database and manage communications linkages with partners and donors;
• Organize outreach program events;
• Support donor relations and fund-raising efforts;
• Prepare and distribute press briefings and other media materials;
• Raise awareness of ecoagriculture potentials and EP activities among diverse agriculture, conservation, public and other sectors;
• Support staff in the use of knowledge management tools;
• Work with Senior Leadership Team to develop an outreach strategy for the organization;
• Supervise program assistant and interns.

Required:

• Excellent English writing and editing skills;
• Fluency in reading and speaking Spanish;
• At least five years of relevant experience in communications and outreach;
• Bachelor’s degree with excellent record;
• Relevant experience in outreach through media or public relations
• Highly organized, with attention to detail;
• Proactive, flexible and creative;
• Legal resident of the United States.

Desirable:

• Experience in cross-cultural communications;
• Experience and competence in working in diverse teams;
• Education and experience in international affairs relevant to ecoagriculture (e.g., agriculture, conservation, economics, policy, development), MA/Msc;
• Experience with software related to publishing, graphics, design, databases, electronic communications;
• Fluency in other international languages.

Salary and benefits:

• $45,000-60,000/year, depending upon experience;
• Health and retirement benefits, insurance, 20 days vacation, holidays.

 

Please send your C.V., indicating your background and experience related to communications and public relations, two writing samples (maximum of five pages each), and names and contact information for three references in an email with subject line ‘Communications and Outreach Manager’ by November 21, 2008 to Ariela Summit, asummit@ecoagriculture.org.

 

 

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