IRC Communications Officer, Global Partnerships Jobs in Kenya

IRC Communications Officer, Global Partnerships Jobs in Kenya


The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.

A force for humanity, IRC employees delivers lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Marketing & Mobilization

Marketing & Mobilization (M&M) is a dynamic team that is tasked with building the IRC’s global profile and brand, growing private revenue from deeper donor engagement and partnerships, and influencing our target audiences. We are responsible for all of IRC's brand, communications, creative and content and digital engagement efforts.

Job Overview/Job Summary

The Global Partnerships communications team is part of the Marketing & Mobilization (M&M) department. The team supports and highlights the IRC’s high value donors and partnerships with the private and philanthropic sectors.

Working in collaboration with teams across the organization, this role leads external-facing communication with philanthropic partners to raise brand recognition, engage donor audiences, spotlight sector-leading solutions and innovations, facilitate fundraising through cause marketing and other campaigns, and meet donor visibility requirements.

This position works directly with the global high value teams to support forward-looking and purposeful communications strategies targeting key audiences and markets. Does this sound like an exciting for fit you?

Major Responsibilities

This communicator will:

• Work alongside our corporate and foundation teams to support grant visibility requirements and proactive profile-building opportunities.

• In particular, focus on expansion of external visibility opportunities, cause marketing, and activations with consumer-facing partners and notable brands.

• Lead external engagement strategy around campaigns and key moments with partners, including digital activations, earned and paid media pitches, flagship events, etc.

• Lead thought leadership and executive communications strategy with partners to elevate cross-sector solutions and commitments to the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges.

• Collaborate closely with, seek

input from, and manage opportunities with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including the Experiential Marketing, Events, Entertainment Relations, Fundraising, Digital, Brand, Creative, and other teams.

• Identify and grow key media targets beyond the policy / humanitarian sectors and help to build our profile with new audiences and international markets.

• Ensure that existing partnership materials are kept up to date – such as messaging documents, decks, media lists, etc. and help to the development of messaging, project management systems and processes, strategy planning documents, etc.

• Contribute to quarterly reports on coverage, engagement, and performance using industry standard metrics and bench-marking.

• Manage additional special projects across the Partnerships communications team based on strategic needs of the team.

Job Requirements

• Genuine passion about the IRC’s work and leading 360-degree communications activations with philanthropic partners!

• 4+ years in Consumer and/or Brand communications in the private or NGO sectors.

• Strong understating of media landscape and comfort with pitching stories and writing statements, quotes, etc.

• A generalist who thinks about communications across channels, e.g., video, digital, social, and media and is able to connect the dots!

• Experience with events and activations to build profile and visibility.

• Experience leading complex projects from start to finish.

• Experience handling external relationships, such as with customers, clients, media, or donors.

• Experience with cause marketing preferred.

• Experience working with high value donors preferred, bonus for experience working in the donor landscape in US, EU, and/or MENA.

• A planner and executer. Someone who has a consistent record of project management, taking initiative and driving implementation.

• Self-starter comfortable working with remote, global teams and in ambiguity.

Education: Bachelor’s degree required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; IRC Communications Officer, Global Partnerships Jobs in Kenya

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