The overall objective of the project: Strengthening Institutional and Human Resources Capacities of the Ministry of Social Solidarity – Support to COVID-19 Response,  is to support the Ministry of Social Solidarity on Egypt’s Social protection response for COVID–19, as part of the EU’s COVID–19 response funding. The project is funded by the European Union Delegation in Egypt. The suggested outputs are responsive to the priority areas of interventions identified by MOSS.

This will be achieved through working on two interlinked tiers of the COVID–19 outbreak’s response to reduce the implications on the vulnerable groups. The first tier is concerned with prevention of infection of new people to flatten the curve of mounting cases and the second tier will work on addressing the socioeconomic consequences of COVID–19.

The project will work on four outputs including:

• Output 1: Enhanced awareness of Takaful and Karama beneficiaries on COVID–19 through supporting MoSS in adapting and expanding existing Waai programme advocacy and awareness tools
  
• Output 2: Enhanced institutional capacity of MoSS through digitalization of systems to better support beneficiaries respond to Covid–19
• Output 3: Improved socio–economic status of vulnerable groups amid Covid–19
• Output 4: Support 168 Elderly Care Institutions and 7 Homeless Shelters for the Elderly managed by MoSS and dedicate information and support to PWD to decrease the risk of infection by Covid–19 to vulnerable groups.

Duties and responsibilities:

Under the full supervision of the Project Manager and oversight of UNDP, the Communications Officer will be responsible for the project implementation and achievement of target results in accordance with the project document and the UNDP guidelines and procedures for nationally executed projects, including:

• He/she is responsible for the strategic planning and design of all communication activities associated with the project outputs.
• He/she will be responsible to integrate communication messages related to the project within the various communication portals of MOSS.
• He/she will be responsible for drafting the various ToRs for the communication activities and for revising and clearing the final products of all publications, audiovisual campaigns and social media campaigns associated with all project’s outputs.
• He/she will be responsible for designing the awareness messages for Waai awareness programme, identifying intervention areas and vulnerable communities in the various villages. In addition, he/she will be responsible for communicating project’s results to various stakeholders and partners.
• He/ she will be responsible for the implementation of the Communication and Visibility Plan.
• He/ she will organize and conduct the communication component of project activities/events including drafting the background notes, media relations, taking photos, preparing talking points, invitations and press–releases;
• Produce quality and appropriate information materials for outreach to different audiences (Monthly newsletter, social media update, identify and write project success stories and project factsheet);
• Edit and design all the documents to be shared externally or published by UNDP and MoSS;
• Adhere to branding guidelines of UNDP, EU and MoSS; and
• May be requested by Project Manager to perform other tasks.