Media Communication Coordinator Job Vacancy In Uganda

Job Title: Media Communication Coordinator

Company Profile : Our client, a National Humanitarian Organisation working with people in poverty and distress is looking for a Media Communication Coordinator

Job Description : Key Responsibilities: • Coordinates/ Participates in mobilizing people in rural Karamoja to discuss issues that affect them in their daily lives. • Coordinates live radio talk shows and recordings of these issues, edit the recordings and air them on the local radios. • Organizes and coordinates dialogues between the communities and local government officials on development issues which they will also develop into radio Programmes. • Occasionally participates and coordinates with the communities in a number of advocacy activities including organizing drama shows, developing posters with messages, writing articles for the newspapers and investigating events in the communities which they will broadcast / publish.

Experience : 2 (Years)

Job Type : Contract

Industry Type : NGOs

Functional Area : Mass Communication

Location : North Karamoja (i.e. Kotido, Abim and Kaabong Districts) Uganda

Person Specifications: •
Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Mass communication or a related social sciences • Minimum of two years’ working experience – most preferable with community development and media communication (radio, television and print media); • Ability to fluently speak Nga’Karimojong and/ or Lebthur

How to Apply: How to Apply: Interested candidates should send application and detailed CV by email to: info@futureoptionsug.com by post/ courier in the address below so as to reach us not later than 24th February 2011.