Communications Officer, Portugal and Spain

The Marine Stewardship Council (the MSC) works to safeguard the world’s seafood supply by promoting the best environmental choice in seafood to the consumer through the use of its ecolabel. The organisation is recognised internationally as a groundbreaking and credible solution to the serious environmental problem of overfishing.

Supporting and reporting to the Madrid-based Country Manager, and in close co-operation with the MSC's communications teams based in London and elsewhere, the Communications Officer has the exciting and challenging role of taking the MSC's message to new and existing audiences in Spain and Portugal.

Utilising their creative and organisational skills, the post holder contributes to a diverse range of activities to promote the MSC’s mission and ensure successful delivery of the communications strategy. Responsible for leading the MSC’s media work and events management in Spain and Portugal, the post holder is the first point of contact for members of the public and journalists.

The Communications Officer ensures that all MSC communications are targeted to meet audience needs, are produced to a high standard, and represent the MSC accurately and persuasively.

The post holder is also responsible for ensuring the Spanish and Portuguese MSC website is up to date, well managed and meets the needs of users.

As a member of the organisation’s global communications team, the Communications Officer also provides occasional support and advice to MSC departmental and regional teams as required.

Skills

The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar or transferable role; experience of successfully interacting with media professionals; excellent verbal communication skills, especially the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and simply; and experience of writing, editing and proofreading articles and publications.

For this role you need high standard of professional spoken and written Portuguese, Spanish and English.

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Application process

Please email the following material to recruitment@msc.org.

• A cover letter outlining how your skills, experience and knowledge directly address the roles, responsibilities, and requirements detailed in the respective job specification (see web link above).

• A copy of your current CV.
  
   

Please include in your cover letter your current salary and the media (website, advertisement, newsletter etc) in which you first became aware of this vacancy.  The subject of your email should read: Commercial Officer Portugal and Spain.

While email is the preferred application route, you may send or FAX a hard copy of your application to MSC’s London office, to:

Mona Chergui (FAM recruitment)
Marine Stewardship Council
Marine House
1 Snow Hill
EC1A 2DH
United Kingdom

Office: + 44 (0) 20 7246 8900
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7246 8901

Application timeline

Applications must be received by the closing date/time of 09.00 BST, 10 April 2012.

Please also note:

• Interviews for these positions are provisionally scheduled for 19 April 2012 in Madrid. Second interviews will be conducted if necessary.
• Short-listed candidates may be requested to provide MSC with a written response to a short exercise relevant to the nature of the job, to be discussed at the interview.

• Only successful candidates will be contacted.