Vacancy for Communication and Advocacy Officer

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 10, 2022 —The African Union Development Agency invites applications from citizens of African Union Member States for the post of Communication and Advocacy Officer.

The Communication and Advocacy Officer will be generate and disseminate tailor-made messages to inform both public opinion and specific policy and programme development/implementation processes.

Applicants must have excellent communication, writing and editing skills as well as working knowledge of website management, blogs, social networks, and communications technologies such as YouTube.

Interested applicants should have a bachelor’s degree from recognised universities in either Communication, Journalism, International Relations, Public Administration, Media or a related field.

They must also have a minimum of one year professional experience in Journalism and/or Communications at the at national and international levels.

The deadline for applications is October 10, 2022.

APPLY HERE 

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