Background & Objective:
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Appui à la Valorisation du Potentiel Agricole du Nord, à la Sécurité Economique et Environnementale program (AVANSE) is a five-year, $87.8 million project designed to catalyze inclusive, sustainable economic growth in a potentially highly productive agricultural area. The program is based in Haiti’s Northern Corridor / Cap Haitien and works to increase agricultural incomes.
The AVANSE Project team is seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual with full life cycle communications experience to join its communications team. The Communications Assistant II will foster two-way communication between AVANSE’s beneficiaries and the project. On one level, this will involve helping AVANSE’s multiple components to be seen by beneficiaries as a single, integrated activity. On another level, this will involve ensuring that the issues and concerns of AVANSE’s beneficiaries are well communicated to the project, and their implications for AVANSE are well understood within the project.
The Communications Assistant II will help communicate AVANSE through community meetings, radio discussions, limited video productions and public events. Communications Assistant II will have significant experience with issues about agriculture, rural development, local governance, advocacy, the Rural Code, and gender. The incumbent will have experience with media and a “presence” in order to be able to draw and direct attention.

Specifically, the duties will include, among others:
• Produce radio emissions:
• Handle the distribution of radio spots/shows in a wider zone (municipality, other regions etc).
• Do interviews of beneficiaries and AVANSE technical staff for both radio and written stories.
• Coordinate with film crews on the production of videos, aiding in the script writing, voice-over, interviewing and editing/montage of final cut.
• Organize events to help promote AVANSE’s work:
• Liaise with media and coordinate media visits to project work sites and national media presence during events.
• Act as a community mobilizer, during community informational sessions or meetings.


The Communications Assistant II will have the following qualifications:
• University degree in Communications/Journalism or a social science.
• 2 years of experience working with an NGO or an International Organization (preferred) and 6 years of progressive work experience in radio and/or event planning.
• Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience with community mobilization and leading community meetings.
• Excellent knowledge of Creole and French, with basic knowledge of English a must.
• Have a charismatic personality with a presence in public/broadcast speaking.
• Have good contacts with Haitian media and public event companies.

The Communications Assistant II will have the following qualifications:
• University degree in Communications/Journalism or a social science.
• 2 years of experience working with an NGO or an International Organization (preferred) and 6 years of progressive work experience in radio and/or event planning.
• Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience with community mobilization and leading community meetings.
• Excellent knowledge of Creole and French, with basic knowledge of English a must.
• Have a charismatic personality with a presence in public/broadcast speaking.
• Have good contacts with Haitian media and public event companies.

To apply for any of these positions, please submit your application including motivation letter, resume and copy of diplomas no later than September 8, 2014 to: haitiavanse_humanresources@dai.com mentioning the position “Communications Assistant II” in the subject line.

Or by mail:

Haiti Feed the Future North – AVANSE
2, Rue Gérard, Babiole, Bréda
Haut-du-Cap | Cap-Haïtien, Haïti (W.I.)