Communication Officer

The Viet Nam Red Cross

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) is a humanitarian and social organization founded on 23 November 1946 by President Ho Chi Minh who was also its first honorary President. The Society is an active member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Vietnam Fatherland Front. VNRC operates nationwide with seven focused area: emergency relief and humanitarian aid; health care; first aid; donation of blood, tissues, organs and bodies; tracing of relatives missing in wars, natural disasters and other disasters; dissemination on humanitarian values; participation in disaster preparedness and response.

The French Red Cross

The French Red Cross (FRC) seeks to prevent and alleviate human suffering and to improve the situation of vulnerable people. The French Red Cross carries out activities in France and worldwide, in close coordination with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and their sisters organizations. The French Red Cross core areas of intervention are: social care, health, disaster preparedness and relief with a transversal emphasis on capacity building.

Since mid-1990s, the French Red Cross has been supporting the Vietnam Red Cross to implement humanitarian and development activities with a special focus on disaster relief, response and preparedness.

The French Red Cross Delegation Office in Vietnam is now looking for a 1 Communication Officer who will assist the Programme Coordinator on the Communication side of the Programme “Gender-sensitive Community Based Disaster Risk Management in ethnic minorities’ areas of North-West Vietnam”.

A Detailed Job Description can be found in attached file.

Interested candidates can send     1 Curriculum-vitae in English, 1 Application Letter in English, Copies of education degrees and relevant certificates, Copies or links to published (or un-published) articles or stories, web design works, or desktop publishing examples that applicants produced, if any.

By hard copy to:

French Red Cross Delegation in Vietnam
83A Tran Quoc Toan street, 7th floor,
Hoan Kiem district, Ha Noi

OR

By Email to: 
[email protected]

With the following reference in the subject: FRC_VN217_Communication_Officer_Your name

DEADLINE for application submission: 05/11/2014 – 17H00

Please note that after the review/screening of applications, only short-listed applicants will be contacted by phone or email, and invited for an interview.