The Health Emergencies Department (PHE) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is hiring a short-term Digital Communication Consultant.
Summary
The objective of the Health Emergencies Department is to increase health sector resilience to emergencies and disasters. PHE assists Member States to strengthen the health sector's capacities in prevention, risk reduction, preparedness, surveillance, response, and early recovery for emergencies and disasters related to any hazards (natural, man-made, biological, chemical, radiological and others) and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain disasters, including outbreaks, and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.
The digital communication consultant position is with the Resources Mobilization and Communications (RMC) Team of the Health Emergencies Department. The consultant will work directly with the PHE Communication Specialist to assist in the preparation, update and publication of web and social media content that has been cleared for publication on the web. The consultant will coordinate closely with the Department’s network of technical advisors at the regional, subregional and country level as well as the Organization’s Communications Department (CMU) to ensure relevant content on the PHE webpages and social media accounts is kept current and reflects PAHO’s quality and branding requirements.
Key Functions
The consultant’s key functions will include:
- Facilitate the re-design the website structure for PHE internet site, within approved PAHO website and institutional communication guidelines.
- Convert and migrate relevant content of the Health Emergencies department from legacy systems (WordPress, Joomla) into the current system (Drupal) or PAHO’s intranet platform (as appropriate), ensuring key legacy information and links have been properly redirected.
- Finalize publication transfer so that all the documents in the PHE website are correctly indexed in PAHO IRIS catalogue.
- Support the maintenance and content development of the PHE website, in alignment with institutional website guidelines.
- Support the management and regular update of content of PHE social media accounts.
Details on the consultancy can be found here:
Are you interested?:
• To apply, please submit both a cover letter and your most recent CV to escamiltan@paho.org
• Deadline for submissions: April 21st, 2021.