Communications Officer - Nairobi (1 year fixed-term contract)

Location: London, UK or Nairobi, Kenya (Hybrid/Remote options available depending on location)

Contract: One year, fixed-term, with potential for renewal

INTRODUCTION TO GIRLS NOT BRIDES

Girls Not Brides is the only global organisation uniquely focused on creating and sustaining a worldwide movement to end child, early and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU) and ensuring that this movement leads to tangible change for the girls at risk or affected by the practice. We are a network of more than 1,400 civil society organisations in over 100 countries working in partnership to end child marriage.

Our vision is a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men and can achieve their full potential in all aspects of their lives. Our vision challenges deeply embedded social norms that harm the lives of girls, women and their communities.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ROLE

We are looking for a Communications Officer to join our Communications Team on a fixed-term basis, with potential for renewal. Reporting to the Head of Communications, this role will provide support across the organisation and across a range of communications functions, including copy-writing, storytelling, and content creation across our communications channels. This position will play a pivotal role in supporting us to increase our internal capacity to communicate our work effectively, respond rapidly to enquiries, position ourselves and our members as thought-leaders, reach strategic audiences, and shape conversations around ending child marriage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Communications outputs and storytelling

• Develop and produce a range of written communications outputs and content, including blog posts, press releases, newsletters, news stories, opinion pieces, and other content across various channels. Support colleagues across the organisation with writing and editing compelling blogs and written content.
• Support the development and production of engaging content across videos, graphics, infographics and others.
• Develop and implement communications plans working in collaboration with teams across the organisation to support us in reaching and influencing our target audiences.
• Support the day-to-day activity of Girls Not Brides' website, including developing, editing, and publishing content in 3 languages (English, French and Spanish), optimising content for web, and updating static pages when needed. Support colleagues across the organisation with writing and editing compelling website content.
• Develop newsletters for our supporters, and support colleagues across the organisation with writing and editing compelling email content.
• Coordinate Girls Not Brides’ press office function and media inbox, managing and coordinating day-to-day media enquiries and responding to requests in coordination with internal teams.
• Liaise with external contractors for content production as needed.
• Liaise with regional teams on priority issues and development and implement communications and dissemination plans for key events, advocacy moments and learning outputs.

Projects, processes and reporting

• Support the development and implementation of communications processes and procedures.
• Support the selection and implementation of software that improves the efficiency of our communications activity.
• Manage and maintain digital assets through our digital asset management system.
• Follow ethical communication principles, ensuring best practices are followed for informed consent and ethical storytelling.
• Support monitoring and reporting of the impact of our communications activities and our audience engagement across digital channels.
• Play an active role in the Communications Team, working on whole team projects as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience

• Significant professional experience in a communications role in the not-for-profit sector, an international/intergovernmental organisation, a social movement, research centre, or social enterprise.
• Professional experience in developing and implementing communications plans across multiple channels and for different target audiences.
• Experience in developing engaging written content across multiple channels and audiences.
• Experience in developing engaging visual and audiovisual content across multiple channels and audiences.
• Experience organising and maintaining content management and digital asset management systems.
• Experience managing inboxes and responding to queries.
• Experience working with external consultants and suppliers.
• Experience in ethical content gathering, including photography, film and written storytelling, and knowledge of ethical best practices and standards for public relations professionals.

Skills and knowledge

• Exceptional written communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively convey complex ideas and key messages with nuance to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in crafting compelling written storytelling content for various platforms, including media, press, website, blog, and newsletters.
• Proficiency in using software for audiovisual and visual content creation, such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Capcut, and others.
• Proficiency in using software to manage email marketing, social media channels, and websites.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrable engagement in girls’ rights.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Proactive, excellent time-management and project-management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ablity to speak, read and write in at least one other language, ideally French is desireable.

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