Amazon Regional Environment Program Communications

**OPPORTUNITY**

Environmental Incentives is seeking to hire a communications specialist to join the Amazon Regional Environment Program (AREP) working in Lima, Peru. Environmental Incentives is helping USAID's Amazon Regional Environment Program (AREP) communicate key findings, lessons, and impact about conservation and development challenges and progress across the Amazon region. Communications activities under this project will ensure USAID maximizes its information and knowledge assets, supports its partners and beneficiaries, enhances its efforts to improve effectiveness and impact, and becomes a recognized contributor to conservation efforts in the Amazon region.

**About Environmental Incentives**

At Environmental Incentives, our purpose is to create the conditions for human and natural communities to thrive. We do this by helping our partners improve the performance of conservation and development programs. Our clients trust us to design and support implementation of programs that (1) use evidence to develop effective strategies within complex systems, (2) center local stakeholder experiences and facilitate collective action, and (3) produce results that support learning about what works. Environmental Incentives is a certified B Corporation with offices located in Washington, DC, South Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Nairobi, and Lima (pending registration). Our remote staff and consultants are based in multiple states within the United States, and across five continents.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Contributes Technical Expertise**
- Supports scoping, production, and review of a high volume and variety of communications deliverables.
- Develops and facilitates adaptable communications strategies focused on clear and impactful messages with client teams, aligned with the AREP communications strategy key messages.
- Contributes to the design and management of effective communications events, creates high-quality materials such as blogs, newsletters, infographics and videos, social media content, and content for outreach campaigns aimed at diverse audiences.
- Appropriately and efficiently engages staff, other experts, and partners (including EI Service Lines) in creating client products.

**Manage Delivery of Service to Clients**
- Gains trust by meeting client communication style, consistently delivering quality service, anticipating needs, and solving problems.
- Manages workflow processes, stewarding successful achievement of the team's vision for success, including interacting with AREP implementing partners and subgrantees.
- Models EI culture, principles, and values in stewarding the client relationship.

**Contribute Expertise to Special Initiatives**
- Participates in the design and implementation of work plans, budget, and staffing, aligned to client vision and EI quality standards.
- Effectively contributes to the continuous improvement of work processes, inside AREP and across EI annual priorities topics.
- Cultivates the EI culture and values, collaborating across EI teams to create and sustain value to our clients and staff.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, organizational learning, international development, environmental science, natural resource conservation, business management or other related fields and 5+ years of experience; Master's degree and 3 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Native Spanish speaker, advanced English proficiency.
- Experience in generating content independently, as well as in supporting product development across multiple staff, including technical staff.
- Experience creating communications products that share technical findings with non-technical audiences.
- Experience in client relationships, teams, and portfolios of work, including contributing to effective work processes and budgets.
- Experience with event planning and facilitation of meetings, both in-person and virtual.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 7+ years of experience working in the communications field.
- Experience working with USAID and or in the international development field.
- Experience working with and leading external consultants and vendors (e.g. graphic designers, photographers, videographers).
- Professional proficiency in Portuguese-language highly desirable.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong understanding of current issues related to conservation and development in the Amazon region.
- Ability to be proactive in problem-solving with excellent listening skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and effectively communicate with multi-cultural and interdisciplinary teams.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of time based on client need.
- Ability to attend conference calls and virtual meetings with international staff outside of regular business hours approximately 3-6 times per month.

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