The Project Officer will be deployed to Financial Secretary's Private Office to undertake the following duties -

• (a)To research into political and policy issues and monitor relevant trends on social media;
• (b)To develop multi-media content for social media platforms with an aim to promote policy objectives and initiatives;
• (c)To assist in deriving and expanding outreaching efforts to the community, press and social media influencers;
• (d)To assist in preparing speeches, publications, publicity materials, articles and replies to public enquiries; and
• (e)To perform other duties as required by senior officers.

Candidates should:-

• (a)have a bachelor degree in graphics, multimedia design, mass communication, public relations, journalism, or relevant subjects from a local university, or equivalent; and a minimum of 5 years’ full-time post-qualification social media / journalistic / public relations experience; or have a diploma in graphics, multimedia design, mass communication, public relations, journalism, or relevant subjects from a registered post-secondary college issued after the date of its registration, or equivalent; and a minimum of 10 years’ full-time post-qualification social media / journalistic / public relations experience;
• (b)a good command of both Chinese and English and have met the language proficiency requirements of Level 2 in the two language papers (Use of Chinese and Use of English) in the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE), or equivalent (see Notes 1 to 3);
• (c)have excellent knowledge in creating, shooting and editing videos and images, infographics and writing captions and posts on social media platform and skills in using design software (e.g. Photoshop, Adobe Premiere);
• (d)have good understanding of the operation of the government and community affairs;
• (e)have strong communication, organisational and presentation skills; and
• (f)be mature and self-motivated.