Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International envisages a world in which all children and young people realise their full potential, a vision now shared by the 193 Heads of State and Government who adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. Our core values bind us together and hold us to high standards for how we expect ourselves and those we work with to behave. They are our guiding principles to the way we work and help us to understand how to put our organisational purpose-Advancing Children’s Rights and Equality for Girls into practice.

Our organisation is transforming itself to meet the enormous challenge everywhere that we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals in our team, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls. With this backdrop, Plan International Bangladesh (PIB) has set the vision for 2030 as, ‘We will partner to empower girls and young women, to be heard, to live without fear of violence and to achieve their rights’. This change will enable us to deliver successfully on our global ambitions and significantly impact children’s rights and gender equality in Bangladesh.

The Role:

The communications specialist will support project and influencing teams to profile organisation’s activities in line with the country and influencing strategy. The post holder will strengthen the promotion of the project interventions as well as ensure high quality communication deliverables to raise awareness and information while using innovative and most suitable communication tools. ln day {o-day activities, the incumbent will closely collaborate with the respective project managers and comms manager.

This post holder will provide technical support to the ongoing projects and core communication team for planning and production of compelling and issues-oriented communications, advocacy and branding materials. s/he needs to prepares media contents i.e. press release, media briefing, backgrounders, speaking notes, briefing

documents, rejoinders etc. to support affirmative media placements of project works. The Communications Specialist will also extend technical support in facilitating the national and international media visits and fundraising content generation visits. S/he will support to build capacity of project staff to ensure quality contents (stories, photos, videos,

statements) from working location/s in an appropriate manner.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated individual with a Master’s degree inJournalism, Mass Communication, or similar areas, from a reputed University with minimum five years in the similar job in large organization preferably in reputed NGO/INGO. Proven experience in generating content for high quality communication, branding and campaign materials like case study, photo story, scripts for video, promotional

materials, infographics, fact sheets, micro blog, web stories etc. Proven_ experience in preparing media content like press release, media briefing,

concept note, success stories, rejoinder etc. both in English and Bengali, Knowledge on using modern communications channels and tools (e.g. media, digital media, blogs, web etc.) to maximum the impact of the organizational work

Expertise in designing software’s and producing digital content for social media is preferable.

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Location: Based at Dhaka under Plan International Bangladesh Country Office

Duration: till August 2025

Application Closing Date: 04 August 2023

Plan International Bangladesh is committed to ending gender inequality, and achieving a gender balanced workforce. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted. References will be taken along with background check and Anti-terrorism screening in conformity with Plans Global Policy on Safeguarding Children and Young People. We offer competitive salary, female friendly workplace, outstanding co-workers (who are respectful, professional, unbiased and easy to work with); equal opportunity that mean equal access to promotion, leadership role or incentive programme.

Plan follows an equal opportunity policy and actively encourages diversity welcoming applications from all especially women and people living with disability

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