COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER AT STREET CHILD

About Company:

Street Child is a UK charity working to protect vulnerable children and improve access to education in some of the poorest communities in the world.  We work in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nepal and since November 2016, Street Child has been involved in the Humanitarian response in North East Nigeria.

Street Child works in the fields of education, child protection and livelihoods, working to deliver sustainable solutions and create maximum impact. Our work combines counselling, family mediation, business support, school building, teacher training and child protection. 

Job Description:

• Street Child is looking for an energetic and creative Communications Officer to serve as a link between Street Child of Nigeria’s programming and the head office Marketing, Media and Communications Team.
• The successful candidate will support the identification, drafting, and editing of compelling success stories and case studies across the programming portfolio, which highlight the positive and sustainable impacts delivered by our programming to the people we serve.
• He/she will also, with input from program and operational teams, develop visually striking fundraising and donor engagement materials to strengthen the organization's in-country financial resilience.
• The candidate will be expected to coordinate these activities alongside Street Child Nigeria’s network of national partner organizations.
• This will include capacity strengthening and mentoring support for partners’ communication focal points. Additional responsibilities will include providing qualitative and visual input on internal reporting.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Media Studies, or a related field or comparable addition to experience. Master’s degree is an advantage.
• Innovative and solutions oriented with sound analytical, conceptual, and strategic thinking skills.
• Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and demonstrable understanding of conflict/post conflict development contexts and community engagement.
• Minimum of 2 years proven experience in communications, media, or external engagement. Previous experience of working with national or international aid and development NGOs.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Excellent graphic design and detail skills with an ability to bring disconnected visual elements into a single, unified design.
• Commitment to Street Child’s mission, vision and values, and the ability to convey with enthusiasm Street Child’s role in accompanying and serving forcibly displaced people and in advocating for their right to protection and a life in dignity.
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as a core value.
• Willingness to work in flexible, sub-optimal, stressful and unstable environment. Willingness to travel through the country to different states.
• Alignment with Street Child’s 4P’s – Purpose, People, Performance, Partnership – in approach to everyday work duties.
• Excellent interpersonal and listening skills with honesty and confidentiality; ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with situations, people, and information.
• Strong self-starter and independent work ethic, with the capacity and motivation to deliver results while working independently.
• An energetic team player who can effectively collaborate, and who can stand alone when necessary.

Salary

Application Closing Date: Not specified

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