Background
Since
March 2011 the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been working
in conjunction with the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster
Reduction (AIFDR) on a program now known as Scenario Development for
Contingency Planning (SD4CP). SD4CP seeks to help disaster managers
create contingency plans in case of disaster through open-source tools
InaSAFE, QGIS, and OpenStreetMap. HOT is responsible for providing
training and outreach in these tools and technical support to the
contingency planning process. To assist in outreach and communications
HOT seeks to hire a Communication Specialist for this program.
Profile
The
Communications Specialist will be responsible for coordinating outreach
for the SD4CP program. This includes creation of marketing materials,
social media outreach, blogging and conference outreach.
- Create and coordinate on OpenStreetMap.or.id with the community and HOT team
- Manage social media outreach through Twitter, Facebook and other platforms
- Organize conference outreach through booths and presentations from the SD4CP team
- Lead development of use cases and white papers regarding InaSAFE and OSM in Indonesia
- Create print and marketing materials
- Coordinate with other HOT related outreach outside of Indonesia
- Work with HOT team to create How-to videos
Practicalities
This
position is based in Jakarta, Indonesia with the primary place of work
being at HOT and Wikimedia Indonesia’s joint workspace. There will also
be some travel within Indonesia. The position is currently funded until
the end of the year with a likely extension until the end of June 2015.
Eligibility Criteria
- At least 2 years professional experience with communications and marketing in Indonesia
- Previous experience in mass media outreach such as writing press releases
- Skilled in technical writing
- Experience in disaster response, open data or open source strongly desired
- Experience in creating flyers and brochures (preferably with open source tools)
- Experience in video blog shooting and editings
- Professionally work with social media outreach
- Fluent in Indonesian/Ability to Work in English
To Apply
Send
cover letter, CV, portfolio and expected salary to apply@hotosm.org
before September 22nd, 2014. Portfolio should contain examples of blog
posts, flyers, press releases and other materials from outreach
campaigns.
