With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
Job Purpose
To support the Regional Director of External Engagement and Advocacy to ensure the implementation of the Regional External Engagement Strategy, which seeks to extend and deepen WV's look outward, while ensuring internal alignment. The position holder must build solid collaboration lines with teams of Advocacy, Operations, Faith and Development, Marketing and P&C to deliver strategic outputs in the following areas:
1. Donor & External Engagement communications via technical branding & storytelling
2. Leadership communications & Internal Communications for alignment
3. Emergency Communications
4. Media (public) engagement
5. Social Media and Digital Communication
Responsabilities:
- Design and implement WVLCR Digital content strategy, including bi-monthly plans featuring the region's strategic pillars: Migrations, Violence, Gender and Climate Action.
- Oversee the scheduled delivery of quality content from NO communications teams for the LACRO Website and replication thereof for other Partnership websites.
- Assist and advise NO communications teams on key projects such as media and public advocacy campaigns, website development, content and storytelling.
- Ensure capacity building and optimization of Emergency Comms to foster fundraising and prioritization of LCRO's humanitarian work within the Partnership. Support may require travel to the field.
- Coordinate that FOs are delivering high-quality evidence-based technical branding and storytelling contents to support Sponsorship, Grant acquisition and institutional engagement.
- Provide training and build capacities of FOs Comms teams to deliver high quality storytelling/technical branding skills to improve influence, impact and income, while safeguarding WV's reputation.
- Support regional leadership (RL) to communicate strategic milestones of the Regional Redesign, its results and challenges.
- Ensure accountability of RO and FO regarding metrics of media engagement and SSMM reach
Required Professional Experience
- Minimum_
- Extensive background in communications, journalism and web-based information management
- Experience in coordinating and producing written-video content for donor/sponsor engagement, public advocacy and media relations purposes.
- Experience creating and implementing internal communications strategies
- Excellent understanding of social media and knowledge of virtual events platforms.
- Preferred_
- Experience with professional photography and video editing. Content gathering in complex contexts is a plus.
- News media engagement
- Strong interpersonal skills in multicultural contexts.
Required Education
- Minimum_
Bachelor's degree in journalism, social communications, digital communications or audio-visual production.
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
- Minimum_
- Excellent speaking, writing and editing skills in English and Spanish
- A full commitment to World Vision's core values and humanitarian mandate
- Self-motivated, creative, digitally savvy
- Sensitivity to cultural, religious and gender diversity
- Advanced understanding of the internet and latest digital communication trends/technologies
- Good understanding of geopolitical, economic and social issues in the LAC region (or the ability to acquire this understanding)
- Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communications skills
- Story-teller and creative thinking
- Work under pressure
- Preferred_
- Experience in campaign/content strategy design and implementation
- Excellent audio-visual production/editing and use of streaming platforms
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Ability to work independently and as a virtual team member
- Extensive travel experience
Required Education
Bachelor's degree in journalism, social communications, digital communications or audio-visual production.
Travel and/or Work Environment
- Requirement Passport up dated travel experience and willingness to travel upon request
Language Requirements
- English and Spanish are a must
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted
