Overview
The Media Assistant is responsible for supporting the Office of the Head of Mission's visibility efforts and managing social media and website content to ensure communication and visibility of project results and activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the Office’s activities in the Office of the Head of Mission, and in particular, support its visibility efforts inter alia on social media, the OSCE website, as well as internal visibility and public information networks, in English, Kazakh, and Russian languages;
- Leading and managing social media and OSCE website content, which includes planning, creating, posting, and sharing content (original text, images, video, Stories, Reels), under the guidance of the Deputy Head of Mission and in co-ordination with the OSCE Secretariat;
- Distributing information to provide constant visibility of project’s activities on broadcast, online, printed, and social media;
- Co-ordinating with public relations departments of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Culture and Information, Social Protection and Labour, the National Security Committee’s Border Service and other relevant national authorities on joint visibility activities;
- Maintaining contact with international and national media outlets, journalists, and other public information-related bodies, including the development and conduction of interviews with senior OSCE officials;
- Maintaining continuous engagement with the OSCE Secretariat’s COMMs unit to ensure corporate visibility standards, the discussion and implementation of visibility guidelines, initiatives, and collaborative activities with other parts of the Organization;
- Designing visibility materials of the POiA such as factsheets, roll-ups, promo materials, leaflets, videos etc. and provide their regular updates;
- Assisting project team in organization of public events to ensure visibility materials, presence of media and wide publicity, which may include duty travel.
Required Experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of work experience in media, PR, communications or a related field;
- Excellent knowledge of Kazakhstan and regional broadcast, printed and social media such as Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, and other;
- Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities;
- Ability and willingness to work as a member of team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, different gender, and diverse political views, while maintaining impartiality and objectivity;
- Computer literate with practical experience using Microsoft applications.
Qualifications
- Completed secondary education
- Studies in journalism, communications, PR, and related fields are desirable.
