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Emergency Response Roster - Communications Director
Client:
World Vision
Location:
United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
88
Posted:
22.01.2025
Expiry Date:
08.03.2025
Job Description:
Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.
Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.
Job Purpose
As a Communications Director, you will lead communications for WV’s Response. This includes managing or liaising with a team of communicators to provide written, video and photographic content to enable fundraising, media and social media engagement. The position oversees message creation, positions response spokespeople, manages response-level media engagement and VIP visits, and monitors and proactively responds to risk and reputation issues. Advocacy, grant and implementation partners are supported with communications resources and impact reporting. The World Vision Partnership is enabled through clear communications and the dissemination of designed situation reports.
Key Responsibilities
1. Communications leadership and management
2. Contribute to an external engagement strategy and/or build a communications plan that enables the response strategy. Monitor, measure and report on it.
3. Identify and prioritise key audiences and determine communications approach and outputs to engage each.
4. Analyse communications landscape to inform strategic decision making and actions.
5. Participate in, support and communications-advise response leaders and key Disaster Management groups.
6. Coordinate with global and regional communications leaders to mobilise the Partnership behind the response.
7. Work with Response leadership, Finance and People and Culture (P&C) to determine communications structure, and secure team budget and staffing/consultant positions required.
8. Recruit and deploy communicators and plan for capacity development.
9. Performance manage team and protect staff mental and physical wellbeing.
10. Ensure communications staff and partners/contractors are trained on Communications Safeguarding Guidelines.
11. Ensure mechanisms are set up to identify, document and share comms lessons learned.
12. Content production to meet Partnership internal and external requirements
13. Ensure the production of child-focused communications content for funding, external positioning, advocacy and campaigns, technical sector engagement, and impact reporting.
14. Ensure delivery of content that demonstrates need and impact in relation to dollar handles.
15. Oversee multiple content user requests, prioritise and commission.
16. Partner with non-communications staff and partners to gather content.
17. Oversee field-level social media and online content posting and updates.
18. Demonstrate World Vision’s expertise through the production of technical content, case studies, reports, and insights.
19. Produce response reports or media packages as appropriate.
20. Work with SOs and GC Communications to measure the impact of response communications content.
21. Develop advocacy communications resources for issues
22. Support advocacy with relevant communications content.
23. Coordinate with Advocacy to ensure messaging reflects priority issues.
24. Keep World Vision informed
25. Support and advise response leaders on communications to the Partnership via internal channels.
26. Work with response leaders to issue Executive Alerts and Declarations.
27. Final-edit situation report text and data provided by Information Management.
28. Coordinate with Information Management to post response content on response portal.
29. Engage with media to raise awareness of the impact of the emergency on children
30. Develop key messages, Q&As, talking points, media releases and pitches.
31. Pursue media coverage, working with Partnership media specialists.
32. Set up and host live and online media events.
33. Host, coordinate and plan media trips.
34. Monitor and manage reputation, risk and brand
35. Develop and keep up-to-date response narrative and key messages.
36. Monitor media and response landscape.
37. Work with partners to ensure proper branding and visibility in collaboration.
38. Grant and humanitarian partner communications
39. Provide or enable communications support for humanitarian grants.
40. Work with grants team to map donors and deliver audience specific communications.
41. Partner with grants team in hosting high-level donor and partner visits.
42. Create and implement a visibility plan for significant grant proposals.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
1. Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
2. BA in journalism or communications/public relations.
3. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
4. World Vision-recognised security training.
5. Required Professional Experience
6. Minimum of 8 years prior work experience.
7. Experience of 2-3 years in Leadership role within a core strategic team.
8. Strong networking and negotiation skills.
9. Thorough understanding project management in a complex, international organisation.
10. Excellent writing and photography skills.
11. Excellent interpersonal skills.
12. High level of confidence and confidentiality.
13. Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications
14. Good interpersonal, organisational and time management skills.
15. Ability to maintain performance expectations in a changing environment.
16. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
17. Ability to solve complex problems and exercise independent judgment.
18. Active listening.
19. Demonstrated ability in financial management skills.
20. Ability to self-manage mental health in high-pressure context.
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
1. Ability to travel to/within domestically and Internationally as required.
2. Able to work under pressure.
3. Work hours are often in excess of 12 hours per day during difficult periods of the response.
4. Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts.
5. Work and housing environments may at times be below normal standards.
Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.
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