**Program Overview**
WRI's air quality program is a global initiative that seeks to identify, build awareness of, and eliminate the root causes of air pollution that damages climate, human, and ecosystem health. The program has three main areas of work: (i) engagement with city stakeholders to use participatory science to diagnose and develop targeted, cost-effective clean air solutions to protect human health and climate, (ii) working with the science community to convert innovative methods into tools and products that communities and policymakers can use to better manage their impact on the atmosphere, and (iii) working with national governments and business networks, as well as community, to design and implement broader regional-to-global air quality governance. It is a part of the WRI Ross Center on Sustainable Cities, with additional oversight from the Data Lab and engagement with Climate, Governance, Energy, and other programs at WRI. The team is global, with senior experts distributed across WRI's network of international offices
WRI Indonesia air quality program is growing along with the new USAID-funded program called "Clean Air Catalyst", which is implemented by a global consortium that WRI is leading with partners, as well as a US Government-dunded program called "Southeast Asia Air Quality Community of Practice", coordinated by WRI Mexico and implemented by country offices.
- Clean Air Catalyst_
The consortium includes six additional partners: Clean Air Toolbox for Cities (Columbia University), Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Internews Network, MAP-AQ, OpenAQ, and Vital Strategies. The program works in three pilot regions with WRI international offices and local partners to test and refine a three-part data to action methodology for improving air quality and delivering climate co-benefits. We work with local partners in three pilot regions - one of which is Jakarta, Indonesia - to test and refine a three-part data to action methodology for improving air quality and delivering climate co-benefits.
- Southeast Asia (SEA) Air Quality Community of Practice_
The objective of the program is to disseminate, share and promote best practices for the generation and use of data and tools for air quality management and climate change mitigation through a specialized community of practice through a series of technical seminars (Tech talks). This community is addressed to technical teams, government authorities from cities in Latin America and Africa, and specialists interested in the topics. As context, in 2020 and 2021, the CityAQ project was piloted to provide participating cities with station-level, bias-adjusted air quality forecasts to anticipate air quality events, communicate with stakeholders and more effectively manage local interventions. The new phase of this project funded by Clean Air Fund and UNEP science is called CanAIRy Alert aiming to include air quality data from l
ow-cost sensor networks to produce bias corrected station level forecast for 4 cities in Africa (Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali and Accra).
The outcomes of this initiative consist of: (1) strengthened knowledge, technical capacity, and a network for air quality experts, practitioners, and stakeholders in the context of air quality awareness, monitoring, modeling, and management in the three focused countries within Southeast Asia; (2) cross-border sharing of experience on air quality management and (3) guidance on the use of already available and successfully implemented tools for enhanced action on clean air solutions by stakeholders. This initiative includes Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines as the main beneficiaries at the country level, while the secondary beneficiaries include other Southeast Asia countries, for example, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
**Job Highlight**
The Communications and Social Media Officer play crucial role in Air Quality programs by implementing aspect of communications strategies, disciplined communications and engagement campaign, managing multiple communications channels (such as website, blog, publications, media relations, and events), and implementing creative outreach strategy to support the program's coalition building mission to push for air quality improvement in Jakarta by utilizing media, marketing, technical and persuasive writing, and community building, as well as political strategy skills, among others, to develop, execute and manage communications strategies that advance the goals of the project.
This position will report to Senior Communications Coordinator while working closely and collaboratively with the Program Manager and the rest of the project team, including the Air Quality Communications and Engagement team in global WRI offices.
Position based in Jakarta, Indonesia with Office-flex working arrangement and might do travel when necessary.
**What You Will Do**
**Strategy**
- Coordination with the Senior Communications Coordinator and Program Managers