Details of Communication-Specialist

BACKGROUND

The Somalia Food Systems Resilience Program (FSRP) is part of a regional initiative by the World Bank to provide a comprehensive framework to intervene at both the national and regional levels. This Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) aims to tackle the underlying structural challenges of food insecurity and reduce beneficiaries' vulnerability to unpredictable climate, crisis, and conflict events. It seeks to achieve this by rejuvenating Somalia's agri-livestock research institutions, seed systems, and extension services and developing community institutions that can anchor adaptation of climate-smart agri-livestock practices, strengthening the availability of water and improved rangelands management for resilient agriculture and livestock production; support animal health services, enhancing the integration of the production systems to domestic and regional markets, with appropriate investments in food safety and value addition, and establishing an enabling policy and institutional framework at a sub-national, national and regional level capable of supporting food systems resilience for Somalia.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) for S-FSRP will be 'to increase preparedness against food insecurity and improve the resilience of food systems in targeted project areas of Somalia Progress toward the PDO will be measured using five PDO indicators and intermediate indicators. All relevant indicators will be disaggregated by gender (men and women) and age (youth and adult). The five indicators are;

(a)  reduction of food insecure people in project-targeted areas (percentage);

(b)     farmers adopting supported climate-smart innovations and practices (number and percentage of which are female and climate resilient);

(c)  land area under sustainable landscape management practices (hectares);

(d)   increase in the volume of agricultural production sold on domestic and regional markets (percentage); and

(e)   policy products related to agriculture, natural resources management, and food systems resilience adopted with the Project's support (number).

Puntland State of Somalia is implementing the project through the Ministries of Agriculture and Irrigation in consultation with the Ministry of Livestock, and Animal Husbandry and Ministry of Environment, Range and Climate Change. The project is framed around the following components and sub-components: - Component 1. Rebuilding Resilient Agricultural Production Capacity, 1.1 Crop and Livestock Research, Extension, and Seed Systems, 1.2 Community Engagement and Technology Transfer, and 1.3 Digital agriculture solutions and data systems Digital Agriculture [1] Solutions and data systems Component 2. Supporting the sustainable development of natural resources for resilient agricultural landscapes, 2.1 Water availability for agriculture and livestock, and 2.2 Rangeland management: Component 3. Getting to markets, 3.1 Farmer Producer Organizations [2] and Agri-food enterprises, 3.2 Market Infrastructure and Enterprise Development, 3.3 Access to Finance; Component 4. Promoting a greater focus on food systems resilience in policymaking, 4.1 Ministerial Capacity Building and Agri-food Policy Assessments for the Crop Sector, 4.2 Ministerial Capacity Building and Agrifood Policy Assessments for the Livestock Sector; Component 5 Project Coordination and Management, 5.1 Project Implementation and Coordination and 5.2 Monitoring and Evaluation.

The Government of Puntland is establishing a core multi-sectoral State level Project Coordination Unit (SPCU) supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. The role of the NPCU is to support the management, coordination, implementation and monitoring, and evaluation of project activities. The NPCU will be staffed with the following positions: - National Project Coordinator, Finance Management Specialist, Procurement Specialist, Project Internal Auditor, Safeguards Specialists, M&E Specialist, and other technical Agricultural and Livestock specialists.

2. Objectives of the Assignment

The objectives of the assignment are for the National Communications Specialist

a.       Design a communication and information management strategy, and oversee its implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

b.      Lead the project in developing an internal and external communication strategy to increase general knowledge and interest in the project activities and inform stakeholders and wider audiences about the project's work.

c.       Develop a system for documentation and manage the internal flow of information

d.      Perform all necessary Communications activities under Somalia Food Systems Resilience Project (S-FSRP)” for the period of the assignment while coordinating the Communications functions with government counterparts located at Federal and State levels, and

e.       To provide technical assistance and build the capacity of Communications staff within the Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation at Puntland levels and other implementing entities.

He/she will manage the Communications activities of the project in strict compliance with (i) the requirements of the Agreement between the World Bank and the Government; (ii) the Project Operations Manual (POM) for this project.

The Communication Specialist will undertake the role and responsibilities as set out above and in this TOR's Duties and Responsibilities section found at  somalijobs.net, puntlandpost.net, somalicontractors.so and https://moai.pl.so can be provided upon application submission (in person or by email to the address below).

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3.  The proposed duration for the assignment is twelve (12) calendar months from the start date.

Skills and qualifications

3.  Selection Criteria

Qualifications and experience

a.    Qualifications

The National Communication Specialist should have the following minimum Qualifications:

•      Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience or Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience in a relevant discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience in Journalism, communication, international relations, Computer Science, Public Administration, or other related fields.

•      Additional certifications in monitoring and evaluation, media production, or training facilitation are preferred.

b.   Experience

The National Communication Specialist should have demonstrable experience in activities as follows:

•      A minimum of 5 year professional expertise in communications function.

•      Project management experience.

•      Experience in electronically archiving information and documentation

•      Experience in video production and photography is desirable.

•      Experience working in a fragile environment will be an advantage

•      Proven experience in information, communications, and campaigning tasks.

•      Experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks or tools for communication performance analysis.

•      Experience in designing and delivering structured training modules and workshops for local and international stakeholders.

•      The ability to use modern audio-visual techniques and communications tools

•      Good Teamwork, communication, and presentation skills.

•      The ability to draft reader-friendly documents by simplifying research reports for different target audiences, including the general public.

•      Excellent English & Somali language, both written and oral, with great attention to detail.

•      Excellent organizational and administrative skills, including managing priorities, working under pressure, and meeting tight deadlines with minimal supervision.

•      The ability to work proactively and autonomously.

•      Ability to adapt priorities to respond to changing demands innovatively.

•      Proactive and use of initiative to achieve desired results.

•      Ability to facilitate learning and knowledge management among staff working on the Project and other stakeholders.

•      Well-developed skills in managing websites, ensuring high-quality content, and using them to promote external and internal communications.

•      Proven ability to manage high-quality publications' design, printing, and distribution.

•      Ability to travel to different regions of Somalia.

•      Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, Access).

5.    A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultant method set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations.

How to apply

Interested Consultants may obtain further information (in person or by e-mail) at the address below during odice hours from 8.00 a.m.– 4.00 p.m. Saturday to Thursday except for public holidays.

8. Deadline for submission: Expressions of interest should be delivered in writing to the address below (in person or by e-mail) marked with the subject title of the position by

29th April 2025 – 16:00pm

Attention:

FSRP Project

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigations

MoAI Puntland State of Somalia.

Garowe PL State of Somalia

Email: acting.procurement@moai.pl.so and copy acting.coordinator@moai.pl.so