Communication Specialist
Job Description
Title: Communication Specialist
Company Name: Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters degree in Journalism / Mass Communication / Media is preferable.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ BLAST is a leading national legal aid and human rights organization providing legal advice, mediation, and litigation services, and undertaking advocacy to ensure the rights of women, men and children living in poverty or facing discrimination/social exclusion. BLAST works through its Head Office in Dhaka and 25 District-level Offices with 2600+ panel lawyers and 100+partner organizations.
∎ Position Description: BLAST is looking for a Communication Specialist for its Head Office, Dhaka. The Communication Specialist must be a highly motivated individual with a proven track record of work on communication and advocacy and donor reporting, and will coordinate and lead the all content of communication and advocacy activities. The Communication Specialist will help facilitate BLAST`s efforts to implement law and policy reform to eliminate gender discriminatory provisions and practices that hinder access to justice for all projects of BLAST victims in Bangladesh.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Assist in developing and maintaining effective communication strategies;
∎ Develop and disseminate public relations materials to raise awareness and increase the visibility of project interventions at local and national levels and ensure that BLAST is effectively and positively positioned with a range of media;
∎ Maintain BLAST's website and develop content;
∎ Manage BLAST's social media, including Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts;
∎ Design print material, including brochures, publications, and event invitations;
∎ Manage internal communications (memos, newsletters etc.);
∎ Identify dissemination and promotion channels and promote interventions and highlights of BLAST's projects on both online and offline platforms;
∎ Work with vendors, including website developers, graphic designers and print companies to produce advertisements, articles or other communication material;
∎ Support BLAST's basic media relations, including writing press releases and statements, maintaining media lists, and evaluating media relations (online and print);
∎ Liaise with media and handle requests for interviews, statements, etc.
∎ Edit communication materials written by BLAST's staff and ensure all communications adhere to the organisation's style guide;
∎ Collaborate with other BLAST staff to execute special events, including developing event communications, promoting the event and taking photographs during the event;
Salary:
∎ Negotiable
∎ Salary and Benefits and allowances: commensurate with experience and BLAST`s salary scale and policyCosts in relation to field work will be borne by the organisation according to its rules
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
Application Deadline: 26 Sep 2020
Company Information:
∎ 16 Sep 2020
∎ Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
∎ Address : YMCA Development Center, 1/1 Pioneer Road, Kakrail, Dhaka-1000.
∎ Web : www.blast.org.bd
∎ Business : BLAST is one of the leading legal services organizations in Bangladesh, and the only one that provides access to legal aid across the spectrum, from the frontlines of the formal justice system to the apex court. It prioritises support to women, men and children living in poverty or facing disadvantage or discrimination. It also provides legal aid, advice and representation across a range of areas, including civil, criminal, family, labour and land law, as well as on constitutional rights and remedies, providing access to judicial remedies alongside alternative dispute resolution wherever appropriate. Alongside individual legal aid, BLAST undertakes strategic litigation, or public interest litigation, as a key part of its advocacy for law and policy reforms to ensure effective legal protection of rights.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 26th Sep 2020
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