Regional Communication Officer – Kenya

Place Standing: One 12 months Contract; Annual Renewal.

Mercy Corps is powered by the assumption that a greater world is feasible. To do that, we all know our groups do their greatest work when they’re numerous, and each workforce member feels they belong. We welcome numerous backgrounds, views, and abilities in order that we may be extra strong and have a long-term impression.

The Program / Division / Workforce

The worldwide communications workforce is a small however dynamic group of pros devoted to getting the phrase out about Mercy Corps’ excellent work to assist folks all over the world survive by a disaster, construct higher lives, and remodel their communities for good. The workforce strives to boost Mercy Corps’ public profile and helps the company’s fundraising and advocacy efforts. The workforce primarily engages with worldwide media and U.S./European nationwide and regional media but additionally works with group teams and influencers in key markets.

The Place

As an integral member of the worldwide communications workforce, the Regional Communications Officer will give attention to elevating the profile and affect of Mercy Corps in Africa by earned media, messaging, and storytelling for outlined points and matters to our world goal markets and throughout the areas, we work.

The Communications Officer will keep abreast of the media panorama in Mercy Corps areas and assist the workforce to anticipate and reply to information cycle moments and land media protection in Mercy Corps’ world and regional goal markets. The officer is anticipated to show initiative and be a self-starter who will generate concepts and drive content material ahead, offering compelling case research, photographs and movies, recognizing robust information strains, and writing participating headlines and information content material.

Important Obligations

• Write, edit and distribute press releases, speaking factors, truth sheets and different media relations and communications supplies.
• Construct relationships with regional, nationwide and worldwide journalists, together with non-traditional media influencers, who may help inform the Mercy Corps story.
• Generate story concepts; liaise with program workers, fundraisers and others to maintain up-to-date on potential tales.
• Develop and implement media outreach plans; coordinate with social media and internet content material specialists to maximise the worth of outreach and interact non-traditional media influencers.
• Deploy to program areas when wanted to analysis tales, conduct media outreach, and collect tales and visible belongings.
• Normal assist for Mercy Corps communications workforce, together with overseeing inside workforce reporting, techniques and analytics.
• Conduct media protection analyses and report on tendencies in mainstream and social media.
• Monitor the information cycle each day and replace the workforce on related matters, drafting responses to emergency information cycle moments as acceptable.
• Analysis and create focused media lists.
• Keep abreast of the media panorama in Mercy Corp’s programmatic areas throughout Africa.
• Present media coaching to country-level and regional spokespeople.
• Different duties as crucial.

Supervisory Accountability

None.

Accountability

Studies Immediately To: Regional Media and Communications Supervisor

Works Immediately With: Regional management workforce, Nation Management workforce, world communications workforce, world digital advertising and marketing, model advertising and marketing and fundraising groups; different departments throughout the company, together with applications, analysis and technical assist unit.

Accountability to Members and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps workforce members are anticipated to assist all efforts towards accountability, particularly to our program individuals, group companions, and different stakeholders, and to worldwide requirements guiding worldwide aid and growth work. We’re dedicated to actively participating communities as equal companions in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our discipline initiatives.

Minimal Qualification & Transferable Expertise

• BA/S or equal in journalism, advertising and marketing, public relations or worldwide relations required; MA/S in associated fields most popular.
• College diploma in a related topic or equal discipline expertise.
• No less than 5 years {of professional} expertise in media relations in a global growth company and expertise in dealing within the worldwide media atmosphere OR as a journalist in a reputable information group.
• Established monitor document of producing constructive media protection; relationships with media in or reporting for regional or worldwide information markets.
• Superior written and verbal communications abilities a should; skill to “translate” technical language into compelling tales wanted.
• Expertise in implementing coaching in communications and media abilities.
• Politically and culturally delicate with qualities of endurance, tact and diplomacy
• Expertise in worldwide growth or information of growth points most popular.
• Information of images and video modifying software program is an added benefit
• Fluency in French is most popular.

Success Components

This position requires an especially organized, savvy communications skilled who is a wonderful storyteller and author with a nostril for information. She/he must have expertise working in fluid and complicated humanitarian emergencies, a stable understanding of the humanitarian sector, expertise working with frontline applications, and a way of recognizing compelling media tales and artistic methods of telling tales underneath difficult circumstances.

S/he must prioritize, multi-task and set up many pressing duties. S/he must be a self-starter who strategises and implements absolutely baked media outreach plans and a superb workforce participant.

Residing Situations / Environmental Situations

The place be ideally primarily based in Nairobi, Kenya, however could possibly be versatile to different areas the place Mercy Corps is current, ideally Nigeria and Senegal.

Mercy Corps Workforce members signify the company throughout and outdoors work hours when deployed in a discipline posting or on a go to/TDY to a discipline posting. Workers are anticipated to conduct themselves professionally and respect native legal guidelines, customs and MC’s insurance policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

Ongoing Studying

In assist of our perception that studying organizations are more practical, environment friendly and related to the communities we serve, we empower all workforce members to dedicate 5% of their time to studying actions that additional their private and/or skilled progress and growth.

Range, Fairness & Inclusion

Attaining our mission begins with how we construct our workforce and work collectively. By way of our dedication to enriching our group with folks of various origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and methods of pondering, we’re higher capable of leverage the collective energy of our groups and resolve the world’s most complicated challenges. We try for a tradition of belief and respect, the place everybody contributes their views and genuine selves, reaches their potential as people and groups, and collaborates to do the perfect work of their lives.

We acknowledge that range and inclusion is a journey, and we’re dedicated to studying, listening and evolving to turn into extra numerous, equitable and inclusive than we’re right this moment.

Equal Employment Alternative

Mercy Corps is an equal alternative employer that doesn’t tolerate discrimination. We actively hunt down numerous backgrounds, views, and abilities in order that we may be collectively stronger and have a sustained world impression.

We’re dedicated to offering an atmosphere of respect and psychological security the place equal employment alternatives can be found to all. We don’t interact in or tolerate discrimination primarily based on race, coloration, gender identification, gender expression, faith, age, sexual orientation, nationwide or ethnic origin, incapacity (together with HIV/AIDS standing), marital standing, navy veteran standing or every other protected group within the areas the place we work.

Candidates are suggested that Mercy Corps doesn’t require any cost or expense throughout the recruitment course of.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is dedicated to making sure that every one people we come into contact with by our work, whether or not workforce members, group members, program individuals or others, are handled with respect and dignity. We’re dedicated to the core rules relating to stopping sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the U.N. Secretary-Normal and IASC. We won’t tolerate youngster abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our workforce members. As a part of our dedication to a secure and inclusive work atmosphere, workforce members are anticipated to conduct themselves professionally, respect native legal guidelines and customs, and cling to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Insurance policies and values. Workforce members are required to finish necessary Code of Conduct e-learning programs upon rent and on an annual foundation.