Opportunités de carrière : Regional Communications & Media Advisor (26976)

The Regional Communications and Media Advisor will be responsible for executing an integrated communications strategy in alignment with Plan International’s influencing ambition, to position Plan International in the region as the go-to organisation and partner for children’s rights, and to connect and interact with key audiences (both internal and external) to gain support for the mission of Plan International in the Region.

Dimensions of the Role

– Serving in an advisory role to senior management, on communications and brand issues and contributing to the development and delivery of creative and strategic media and communications work to support organisational objectives at country, regional and global levels;

– Managing the delivery of messages with and expert knowledge of traditional and new media to both internal and external audiences, and assessing the reputational risks and advising on opportunities;

– Demonstrating a good understanding of development and humanitarian issues and the use of Communications for Advocacy and Resource mobilisation;

– Focusing on innovation and finding creative new ways to communicate messages to new audiences while ensuring the analysis, the interpretation, the production and the communication of complex information to multiple audiences;

– Managing internal relationships at country, regional and global levels;

– Building capacities on media and communications work for Sub-regions;

– Working with others and building networks around communications at the same working as an effective team member;

– Taking initiative, working independently and proactively and working to high pressure and tight deadlines while.

Accountabilities

Media Management

– Develop and implement a regional media strategy aligned to the global strategy, to support the Influencing work at regional level and deliver high impact media coverage in regional and global markets;

Support media work on major regional humanitarian emergencies in coordination with DRM and ERM managers;

– Build and maintain strong linkages with media at regional and international levels,  develop partnerships with media outlets and bloggers;

– Manage risk and brand reputation to ensure that media work benefits rather than harms Plan International’s strategic objectives and does not endanger staff, programmes, partners and the communities we work with;

– Analyse and advise regional management team on changing trends and opportunities in the regional and global media landscape;

– Monitor and evaluate the impact of media projects at both country and regional levels, and provide regular strategic reporting and give recommendations.

Strategic Communications

– Manage Plan International’s internal communications for the region to populate the new Global strategy, support the transformation process by exploring new ways to get messages across using social media and online platforms;

– Generate content around high-priority Plan International issues and campaigns, edit and produce content that increases Plan International visibility and positioning as a partner of choice for girls rights in the region;

– Ensure production and availability of high quality communications products for a wide range of audiences including donors, partners including the private sector, policy makers and the general public, at global, regional and country levels;

– Manage external consultants as required for the development of agreed outputs;

– Develop a calendar of events taking into account the global and Plan International Calendars as well as the Regional Calendars (including key AU events, major conferences and events.

Content Development

– Gather internal knowledge and transform it into exciting and useful messages, and disseminate it to the right audiences through identification of the most effective distribution channels;

– Produce high quality materials including information packs, opinion pieces, power point presentations, press releases, speeches and talking points, opinion  pieces, news reactions, photos, blogs, annual reports, newsletters, video and multimedia content;

– Support the Region in ensuring adherence to communication policies, protocols, standards and brand compliance.

Capacity Building

– Provide technical support and mentoring to a network of communications staff in the region;

– Provide support to  spokespeople on a  range of  humanitarian, development  and campaigning issues while training more spokespeople in the region;

– Build capacities of country and regional teams on capacity gaps related to media and communications;

– Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and – Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Key relationships

High Level Contact:

Internal:

Regional Programme team

Country Communications staff

Regional Advocacy Specialist

IH communications team

External:

Media contacts

Medium Level contact

Internal:

Other Regional Offices communication staff

Country Directors

External:

Communication staff from other INGOs as necessary

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

Essential

Qualifications and Knowledge

– A first degree or Masters in Communications;

– A minimum of 05 years of  experience of the key responsibilities, including working with media, developing and delivering communications strategies, managing internal communications, knowledge of digital media, and creating networks;

– Experience of working with international NGOs and understanding of a rights-based approach;

– Familiarity with the social, political and economic context of the WARO region, and its humanitarian and development issues;

– Demonstrated and considerable experience of working with international media, communications or public relations roles;

– Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate; complicated and technical issues in a concise and clear way, to a wide range of target audiences;

– Sound political judgement and Knowledge of risk management.

Skills

– Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, including ability to find, absorb, analyse and prioritise information from many different sources,

– Proven experience of communication strategy development;

– Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, with competing priorities and minimal supervision;

– Ability to travel sometimes at short notice and to humanitarian crisis areas

– Flexibility and adaptability;

– Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work in multi-national, multi-cultural teams;

– Fluency in English.

Desirable

– A record of accomplishment of achieving results and strategic impact on communications and media and in building capacity for teams to deliver.

– Must show demonstrable impact in using communications as a tool for social change

Physical Environment: The place of work is in the office premises, some movements out of the office and the different countries will occur when necessary.

Office: West Africa Regional Office

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Employment status: Full time

Contract status: Local

Deadline for submission: 04 March 2018

Level of contact with children

Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children and youth