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Conservation International Indonesia is a non-profit organization with head office in Crystal City, Arlington USA and whose mission is to conserve the Earth’s living heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
Senior Marine Communication Specialist
Conservation International (CI) is deeply dedicated to conserving Indonesia’s remarkable marine ecosystems, which lie in the center of the world’s coral triangle—the very epicenter of marine biodiversity on the planet. During the last three years, the CI Indonesia Marine Program has been growing rapidly and includes several large-scale marine conservation initiatives, including the Bird’s Head Seascape initiative, the Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape initiative, the Nusa Penida MPA initiative in Bali and CI’s Indonesian sea turtle conservation initiative. CI aims to develop conservation in a manner that protects biodiversity, sustains fisheries, and maintains tourism potential, thereby generating considerable sustained benefits for local communities.
CI firmly believes that communication is a pivotal in all of our conservation efforts. Strong conservation outreach and education programs create the enabling environment for all conservation successes. With that understanding, the CI Indonesia Senior Marine Communication Specialist will play a critical and wide-ranging role in the development of all outreach, education, and media programs for the exciting and ambitious Indonesia marine portfolio. This position is based in Bali and may include occasional travel to CI Indonesia’s field sites and head office.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement the communication and outreach program strategies and activities related to marine conservation within CI-Indonesia, and supervise the implementation of marine conservation education program
- Create and build the capacity of a regional network of marine communicators and educators among CI Indonesia’s staff and partners.
- Liaise with other program staff and partners to develop appropriate communication and conservation education strategies for the marine program using participatory methodologies.
- Design and organize awareness campaigns to reach key stakeholders with conservation messages on species, MPA, corridor, or Seascape initiatives.
- Develop, produce and distribute appropriate communication tools and outreach materials for marine program based on strategies developed;
- Establish and maintain a network of contacts with existing media organizations.
- Develop relationships with local media outlets (radio, print, and TV) and form key partnerships to support the dissemination of conservation messages.
Preference would be for a candidate with the following qualifications and experience:
- A degree in communications with a minimum of 5-year experience working in communication, journalism, and/or promotional activities;
- Sound oral communication and negotiation skills, and superlative writing and editing skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
- An ability to work in a team and create communications strategies that are effective at reaching the program’s target audiences.
- Experience in the use of photographic, audio/visual equipment, graphic design programs and presentations are helpful.
- Demonstrated experience with the communication media, especially with news placement and awareness campaigns.
- Computer skills and experience in relevant software (i.e. Publisher, PowerPoint, PageMaker, Photoshop and/or similar media programs).
- Familiar with or have some background experience working with conservation NGOs
- Literate on and/or familiar with marine and coastal/species conservation issues.
Include a cover letter and a CV of no more than 3 pages. Separately list at least two referees with recent experience supervising your work should be sent to: hrd@conservation.or.id
Closing date for the application is 5th December 2008
(Only short-listed candidates will be notified)
Closing date for the application is 5th December 2008
(Only short-listed candidates will be notified)
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