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
Responsabilities:
- Support the Regional Director of External Engagement to implement regional communications strategies and workplans, based on a careful curation of/coordination with FOs to produce evidence-based contents to enhance external engagement, with the prioritized targets and within the prioritized areas of focus.
- Design, develop and manage a regional internal communications system to ensure strategic alignment and engagement of RO and NO staff with the Regional redesign process, in line with the global strategy Our Promise 2030.
- Ensure the coordination of capacities and roles with FO to deliver high-quality contents to support fundraising and awareness-raising activities amid large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Support may require travel to the field.
- Coordinate and ensure communications capacities for deployment amid humanitarian emergencies or crisis.
- Coordinate and manage media requests amid emergency, to ensure WV's visibility and coordinates with FO to obtain monthly indicators regarding media 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.
- Ensure solid positioning of WVLCRO within the Partnership stakeholders, by providing (edit, write, produce or coordinate production of high quality contents) for GC, SO and global outlets to support their fundraising, advocacy, awareness, positioning, emergency or engagement campaigns.
- Ensure appropriate storage and indexing of contents in the existing libraries (Storyhub, WVRelief).
- Conceptualize, produce and coordinate virtual events for WV's external and internal engagement purposes. This includes writing Concept Notes, coordinating with IT the use of appropriate platform, coordinating graphic design of invitations and other support materials and timely booking panellists.
- Support NO communications teams in the effective servicing of key WV Support Offices (SOs) resource needs for fundraising, marketing, media engagement, emergency responses and public advocacy campaigns.
- Develop a strategy of contents excellence to feed the multiple platforms of WVI and WV Lacro.
- Provide strategic guidance to outsourced services (such as graphic design and web page services) to ensure an updated, technically accurate and relevant image of WV's brand within its digital outlets (webpage and SSMM profiles).
- Ensures that all LCRO FO comply with current brand guidelines.
- Assist and advise NO communications teams on key projects such as media and public advocacy campaigns, website development, content and storytelling.
- Oversee the scheduled delivery of quality content from NO communications teams for the LACRO Website and replication thereof for other Partnership websites.
Required Professional Experience
- Minimum_
- At least 5 years of experience. 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/external 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, PR 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 issues
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