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Communication Specialist
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Date posted
April 27, 2025
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Closing date
April 27, 2025
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Hiring location
Hargeisa
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Qualification
Degree
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Experience
5-6 Years
Description
Job description
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)
Government of Somaliland
• Somaliland Empowering Women through Education and Skills (Raja Kaaba) & Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD)
Project Grant No.: TF0B8677, TF0B8653
Assignment Title: Communication Specialist
Reference No. SO-MOES-485215-CS-INDV
Place of Assignment: Hargeisa, Somaliland
Submission Deadline: 17-May-2025
The Government of Somaliland through the Ministry of Education & Science has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of Somaliland Empowering Women through Education and Skills (Raja Kaaba) Project and Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD) Project. the RAJA KABA project aims to empower girls and women (age 15-35 years) through enhanced literacy and numeracy skills, skills for income generation, and skills for leadership. The project is supporting expanded provision of second chance education and skills training in priority sectors and increased uptake and completion of higher education degrees in targeted vocations. The project spans interventions across the non-formal education, vocational education of the MoES, and in collaboration with the Commission of higher education in Somaliland.
The Project consists of the following three key components: (1) Skills for Life and Labor Market (2) Higher Skills Development for Women’s Leadership – (3) Project Management.
While Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD) Project in Somaliland, aims to increase access to primary education in underserved areas, with a focus on girls, and to improve quality of instruction. The Project will consist of the expansion of access to quality schooling for the disadvantaged (Component 2) and project management (Component 4).
Responsibilities:
- The main aim of the assignment for the Communication Specialist is to developing a comprehensive project communication strategy and plan, providing regular and timely analysis and distribution of project information to all key stakeholder groups and project beneficiaries. This should include communication objectives, the key messages, stakeholders, audience, project activities, channels, timelines, budget and KPIs.
He/she will undertake all the other specific tasks detailed in the Terms of Reference (TOR) that can be found at the following https://moe.govsomaliland.org/ or can be provided upon submission of application (in person or by E-mail) provided below.
Skills and qualifications
Skills and qualifications
Selection will be based on the qualification and experience of the candidate and followed by an interview. At a minimum, the candidate is expected to have the following level of qualification and experience:
- A minimum bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, public relations, social sciences, international relations, or related fields.
- A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in strategic communication strategy development and execution.
- Experience in working with the government, INGOs experience in a World Bank funded project is an added advantage.
- Proven knowledge of visual communications principles and fluency with design software
- Understands project management concepts sufficiently to propose and develop drafts of online communication plans and strategies with minimal supervision.
- Can apply standards project management tools, methodologies, and processes.
- Experience of working in a similar environment like that of Somaliland.
- Able to deliver training programmes and workshops to the relevant partners and stakeholders.
- Experience in writing strategies and producing sound evidence-based reports.
- Experience using graphic design software, such as Adobe Creative suite would be preferable
- Outstanding communication skills; ability to communicate to various stakeholders.
- Excellent writing and proofing skills.
- Have ability to communicate succinctly and clearly, ensuring that communication achieves its intended objective.
- Possess analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work with multiple stakeholders; network, facilitate and foster good client relations to build successful and sustaining effective working relationships.
- Experience in advocacy and negotiation, especially with government counterparts.
- Fluent in English and Somali.
REPORTING
The Communication Specialist will report directly to the Somaliland PIU Project Coordinator and closely work with PIU staff. She/he will work under the overall guidance of the Director General, Somaliland Government MoES, Somaliland Government to smoothly run project operations.
The Ministry of Education and Science now invites eligible Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested Individual Consultants must submit the following: (i) Curriculum Vitae (CV) with 3 reference persons; (ii) copies of certificates of academic qualifications; and (iii) cover letter indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.
Duration of Assignment
Contract is for One year (1) year with possibility for extension based on requirement. The duty station is MoES, Hargeisa. Travel to the Project districts required.
How to apply
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to section III, para 3.14,3.16 & 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: Procurement in Investment Projects Financing Goods, Works, Non -Consulting and Consulting Services, July 2016, revised November 2017, August 2018 and November 2020 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultant method set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations.
Interested applicants may obtain further information including a detailed Terms of Reference from the Ministry in person or by e-mail to the address given below during office hours from 8:30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Saturday to Thursday.
Deadline: Expressions of interest and CV must be delivered to the address below by hand, mail, courier or email on or before May 17, 2025, at 17:00 hours.
Attention; PIU Coordinator
Ministry of Education & Science
Wadada Madaxtooyada Road1 Next to the Ministry of Finance
Hargeisa-Somaliland
E-mail: PIU-procurementHCDRKprojects@outlook.com & cc PIU-coordinatorHCDRKprojects@outlook.com
Overview
Somaliland has an ancient history and civilization
For a long period in the past, Somaliland had well-established trade links with the rest of the world particularly ancient Egypt (the Pharaohs), the Romans, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian sub-continent
Commodities like hides and skins, frankincense and myrrh, ivory, gums, feathers were traded in exchange for consumer products such as sugar, tea, dates, clothes etc
It was uniquely the hub of spices trade (Frankincense and Myrrh)
The trade links to the Middle East and East Asia existed via the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean routes. The Republic of Somaliland is located in the Horn of Africa
It has the Gulf of Aden to the North and shares borders with Djibouti in the West, Ethiopia in the South and Somalia in the East
It has an area of 176,119 square Kilometers and a coastal line which stretches up to 800 Km along the Red Sea
In terms of area it would have ranked 37th in Africa, which means there are 18 countries with smaller areas than Somaliland in the continent
It is home to a population of four million
The capital, Hargeisa, is a metropolis with an estimated population of over one million
The national language is Somali but both English and Arabic are widely spoken. Somaliland, due to its strategic location near Bab el Mandeb, at the entrance to Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, has always been of interest for strategic and commercial reasons
In the mid16th century, the great Ottoman Empire annexed the port of Zeila and provided protection, at a cost collected through customs and other charges, for Arab, Persian and Indian merchants who serviced the trade requirements of the surrounding area and the Abyssinian hinterland
In 1870 the ambitious Khedive Ismael I of Egypt, whose country was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, obtained the Ottoman Sultan’s authorized rights over Zeila in exchange for paying an annual fee of sterling pounds 18,000
The Khedive in due time acquired the coast between Bulhar and Berbera without reference to the Sultan. In 1877 Britain signed a convention recognizing the Khedival annexation of all the East African coast north of Ras Hafun (the promontory of land jutting out into the Indian Ocean south of Cape Gardafui). The agreement stipulated that no portion of this area should be ceded to any foreign power and that British consular agents should be appointed at places on the coast
The Sultan of Turkey, hitherto not very interested in any land east of Zeila, generating, however, a piqued interest of the Ottoman Empire. As Egypt had opened the Suez Canal in 1869, Egyptian interest shifted more on the coastline rather than the interior
At coastal locations lighthouses, harbors, piers, blockhouses, and barracks were constructed, and running water supplies engineered
Some of these facilities have lasted until recently. In 1884 Egypt was facing the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan and for financial reasons (dictated by Britain) had to curtail its projects along the Somaliland coast
By agreement with Britain the Egyptian flag remained flying in Somaliland but Egyptian troops and officials were withdrawn and replaced by very few British troops, ships and officials from Aden. With the departure of the Egyptians and the possibility that other colonial powers had their eyes trained on the potentials of the Somaliland coasts and its hinterland, Britain had to act fast
The British colonial office expedited Major A
Hunt of Great, representing his government, to draw up protection treaties with several Somaliland clans
Britain wooed Somaliland clan leaders with a promise of protection, guaranteeing them full support in case of an attack from other neighboring territories, which were then occupied by other Europeans (See the Map of Africa by Treaty written by Sir E
Hertslet)
On their part, the clan elders of the day refused to grant the British the right to land unless they agreed to their terms.
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