Overview
The Associate Communications Officer provides communication support, advice, and products, with a primary emphasis on digital communications, and supports the OSCE public website.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining content and structure of the OSCE public website on a day-to-day basis using the website’s content management system.
- Liaising closely with the Web Developer to ensure the website is up-to-date.
- Guiding the work of internal website contributors, including troubleshooting, training, and coaching.
- Ensuring content guidelines and policies are respected.
- Creating and delivering communication products according to priorities.
- Ensuring communications support for events and conferences.
- Working closely with OSCE Institutions and Field Operations communications teams.
- Developing texts, visuals and stories and distributing them across a broad range of communication channels.
- Performing other duties as required, including participating in a duty roster.
Required Experience
- A minimum of two years (four with a first-level degree) of progressively responsible professional experience in communications (including social media, multimedia and website management), preferably in an international organization, non-governmental organization (NGO) or as a journalist, including several years of experience with writing, editing and production of communications material.
- Demonstrated experience using political judgement and analytical skills and established competence to convincingly present the activities and achievements of the Organization to external audiences.
- Experience with Drupal or similar content management systems (CMS) is highly desirable.
Qualifications
A second-level university degree in journalism, communications, multimedia, political science, international affairs, or another related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience will be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree.
