Communications and Advocacy Specialist

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⏰ Full Time

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🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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World Vision is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, families, and communities. It focuses on sustainable development, disaster relief, and advocacy, working with local partners to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. Through various programs, World Vision aims to uplift vulnerable populations and promote social change in collaboration with communities around the world.

📋 Description

• Support development and implementation of communications, advocacy, and engagement strategies across the Middle East and Eastern Europe Region. • Co-lead risk communications, media engagement, and reputation management efforts. • Address communications, media, and reputation risks and draft reactive statements. • Onboard and train communications risk focal points and provide regular risk updates. • Support advocacy initiatives, external engagement events, reports, policy briefs, talking points, and key messages. • Support child participation initiatives and sustainable child and youth participation mechanisms. • Produce and design communications and social media content. • Update regional website pages, review and publish field-office content, and upload regional content to Storyhub. • Support social media posting and monitoring, communications dashboard and Hootsuite rollout, and Cision media monitoring rollout. • Produce quarterly media monitoring reports and support media engagement through Cision. • Liaise with external designers and ensure regional products meet branding and safeguarding standards. • Explore use of AI tools to enhance communications and social media content development. • Provide technical communications, social media, advocacy, child participation, risk communications, media, and reputation support to field offices. • Support emergency advocacy and communications and development of expert pools for emergencies. • Participate in regional and global coordination calls and disseminate communications and advocacy products through internal channels. • Support internal communications, including the Ignite newsletter and WV Central. • Represent World Vision’s Christian identity in communications and advocacy.

🎯 Requirements

• University degree in Communications, Journalism, International Relations, Social Sciences, or a related field. • Minimum five (5) years of relevant professional experience in communications, advocacy, media relations, public affairs, or external engagement within the humanitarian, development, or non-profit sector. • Experience developing and implementing communications and advocacy initiatives at national, regional, or international level. • Experience working with multiple stakeholders, including media representatives, civil society organizations, government actors, donors, and community representatives. • Experience providing communications and/or advocacy support to field teams and/or local partners. • Fluency in written and spoken English. • Must be in good physical health. • Strong communications content development skills, including photography, videography, graphic design, storytelling, and multimedia content production. • Experience in social media management, monitoring, audience engagement, and digital communications. • Excellent report writing, editing, proofreading, and report design skills. • Experience drafting advocacy messages, key messages, talking points, policy briefs, and other advocacy materials. • Good knowledge and practical experience in child and youth participation approaches and initiatives. • Successful applicant must affirm World Vision’s core documents and observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, where legally permissible. • Relevant professional training in communications, advocacy, media relations, digital communications, or humanitarian programming is desirable. • Experience working in complex humanitarian and emergency contexts is desirable. • Knowledge of any other language relevant to the Middle East and Eastern Europe Region (MEER) is an asset.

🏖️ Benefits

• Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) • Regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings • Participation in activities that enrich and develop mutual growth in Christ

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