Program and Communication Officer

Orbis is a non-profit organization based in New York. Orbis that works to prevent and treat blindness through hands-on training, public health education, and improved access to quality eye care, advocacy, and partnerships with local health care organizations. Since 1982, Orbis has been a pioneer in global eye health, and has worked in ninety-two countries. Orbis story began with our Flying Eye Hospital, a fully equipped mobile teaching hospital. We have long-term programs in countries including Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, South Africa, Vietnam, and Zambia – with additional programs in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The role Program & Communication Officer is to support the SFOM in oversight Orbis’s branding, communication, events, promotion, profiling and presence- including for specific programs and events; ensure a strong ongoing profile and presence for Orbis locally, nationally and internationally. This position also is expected to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and contributes to Orbis’s short, medium and long-term growth and development by promoting Orbis’s works, profiles externally and internally.

Co-supervised by Senior Program Manager, this position is support for program team in administrative works, logistics, project planning and implementation… to ensure for the smooth and effective management of Orbis’s programs in Vietnam.

Further details of job functions could be found here.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

Education:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field (e.g. Communication, Journalism, International Development; Politics, International Relations; Fundraising, or any related field). Master’s degree in a relevant field is desirable.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience of communications with a focus on major stakeholders, government relations, sustainability, brand PR and internal communications.
• Experience in coordinating communications across multiple groups and the ability to grasp the breadth of divisions in a regulated marketing environment.
• Experience in proactive positive news/story seeding.
• Experience in social responsibility news creation and story seeding/coverage placement.
• Experience in ecological crisis story management and response.
• Experience in project planning and implementation in INGO/development sector
• Extensive contacts with and an expert understanding of, the Vietnam media community and how it operates/interacts with global media providers, with particular experience in creating and pitching stories successfully to those media contacts.
• Development of direct relationships with media contacts for the purpose of increasing positive earned coverage.
• Strong and consistent personal ethics and a high sense of integrity.
• Influential communication with the ability to impact and motivate external and internal stakeholders.
• Expected to work longer hours from time-to-time as business demands may require
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Language and communication:

• Excellent language skills in English and Vietnamese including the ability to compose, edit, analyse and report using complex information.

Interested candidates should submit: A letter of interest; CV; and Supporting documents (as appropriate).

To: Orbis International - Vietnam Office
Address: R.201-202 B3, Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound - 298 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Email: [email protected]; [email protected] and cc [email protected]
Email subject: Application for the position of Program and Communication Officer
The deadline for submitting the application will be June 5, 2022
Only short-listed candidate will be contacted

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To learn more about Orbis International, go to http://www.orbis.org
Orbis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
As a global organization, we welcome qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds and cultures who reflect the five Orbis values of Trust, Caring, Commitment, Accountability, and Excellence.