Veterinary Strategy in Turkey

The veterinary policy, which undoubtedly is essential for maintaining animal health, public health and food safety and is indispensable to national interests, is also a core element of ongoing accession negotiations with the European Union.

The overall objective of the project is to increase the efficiency of veterinary policies through sectoral multi-annual planning, raise awareness among stakeholders and strengthen their commitment to achieve the defined targets, ensure the financing of required actions, improve the animal health and welfare situation in the country, contribute to alignment with the EU Acquis in the veterinary field and the fulfilment of the relevant closing benchmarks set for Chapter 12-Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Policies, as well as Turkey's international obligations in the animal health field.

The main office of the Contractor will be in Ankara where the Contractor will establish a project office. The project shall cover the whole Turkey; site visits will be required to several cities/provinces for gathering data according to the disease situation.

The Communication Specialist will

  • Development and management of a communication strategy for each veterinary area,
  • Manage the TAT responsible for the preparation of the information campaign, Conduct of public opinion surveys,
  • Manage the TAT responsible for the preparation, elaboration, publication and delivery of brochures, billboards, leaflets, manuals, CD, radio, newspaper and TV spots and web site of the project,
  • Responsible for the delivery of the information campaign materials such as brochures, CD, manuals,
  • Assist the TAT responsible for the organisation of the information seminar and trainings,
  • Collect and Prepare mission reports of the TAT responsible for the preparation of the information campaign,
  • Produce mission reports.
Qualifications: 

Qualifications and skills

  • University degree in Communication or Journalism or Public Relations. In the  absence of a university degree from the requested fields, the expert will have an  equivalent professional experience of minimum 12 years in the field relevant to assignment,
  • Good command of English,

General Professional experience:

  • Minimum of 8 years professional experience in the field of communication, journalism, public relations etc.

Specific professional experience

  • Experience as an communication expert in the capacity building projects,

  • Minimum 3 years  of experience  in  the  planning and  implementation of  information campaigns for increasing the awareness of the projects,

  • Experience in an EU funded project in the field relevant to the assignment.

Start / Duration: 

The intended commencement date is November 2013 and the period of implementation of the contract will be 24 months from this date.

If you are interested to cooperte with AFCI in this tender in Turkey, please send you most recent CV to

Barbara.Braun [at] afci.de

Thank you!