If you’re living in Zimbabwe and have good experience in communications and media, why not try for this . . .

Communications Support: Training and Research Support Centre
Deadline: 25 March 2011

This work is being implemented in the Training and Research Support Centre.

Aims: The aim of the consultancy is to provide support to communications work to the training and research activities of the organization, and specifically to:
i. Produce specific written training materials
ii. Participate in relevant meetings to support the development of communications materials including at community level
iii. Produce simplified or target-specific information and media materials from technical reports produced by the organization
iv. Redesign or reformat existing materials and reports produced by the organization to be suitable for policy, technical and community audiences
v. Provide mentoring, skills and peer review support to personnel in the organization to improve the quality of reports produced.

The work will be part time for about 5-10 working days per month over the period April-October 2011. It is envisaged that there will be additional work in April/May (about 20 days) and in July (about 20 days).

Qualifications of the consultant:
- Graduate or Masters level qualification in a field of relevance to communications and media sciences
- Proven experience for at least five years in communications work with technical, official and/ or community audiences
- Proven ability to design and produce communications materials (reports, briefs, leaflets, posters, DVDs) for a range of audiences, from policy and technical to community level . Proven writing skills
- Ability to use electronic and internet communication

Time period: A part time contract between April 1 2011 and October 30 2011, with options for renewal. The work will be based on outputs / deliverables and the consultant will organize their own time.

Conditions: Specific deliverables and their timing will be set in the consultancy contract and the consultant will organize their work schedule independently to meet these time frames. The consultant should have access to his/her own laptop and internet/ email communications, although facilities at TARSC may be made available on an ad hoc basis during the consultancy. The fee payable to the consultant is negotiable.

Applicants: Applicants should submit electronically to admin [at] [dot] org

- A letter outlining the skills and experience offered to this work and an indication of the expected daily fee rate.
- A full CV
- Two samples of media and communications materials on which the consultant was lead author.

The successful applicant will be notified in end March for interviews and the contract is projected to commence in beginning April 2011.

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