PACT Kenya Communications Officer Jobs
Pact Inc. Kenya Office is implementing two projects, RASMI and SEEK funded by the European Union Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF). The Regional Approaches for Sustainable Conflict Management and Integration (RASMI) programme is part of the larger EUTF’s investments in the cross-border areas of the Horn of Africa.
The project adopts a conflict systems-based approach to promote peacebuilding, conflict management, and conflict resolution capacity at the community and cross-border levels. RASMI
consortia consists of local partners, Inter-Africa Group (Ethiopia) Mandera Women for Peace and Development (Kenya) NEPED (Kenya) and IDF (Somalia).
The RASMI project has three main objectives:
institutions to be conflict sensitive.
This Communications Officer role provides an excellent opportunity to work on both strategic and operational aspects of communications for cross-border peacebuilding programs. At the same time, the role will involve bolstering the capacity of other RASMI and SEEK partners with a view to enabling clearer, more coherent messaging across the two EUTF programs. This is a 1-year role with the possibility
of extension.
Based in Nairobi and reporting to the Regional Communications Coordinator, the successful candidate will be challenged to think strategically, tactically to build and implement effective communications
platforms for EUTF programs (RASMI and SEEK) being implemented by Pact Kenya.
Roles and responsibilities
for SEEK and RASMI. This will involve working with the Regional Communications
Coordinator to develop and implement communications strategies, brand and visibility
guidelines; key partnership liaison strategies, audience maps; targeted contact databases; key
messages; digital and non-digital channels; programme and project workplans; editing and
packaging reports, planning and execution tools; communication templates; monitoring and
evaluation of communication activities; capacity building for RASMI and SEEK staff and
partners; workshop planning and delivery, events planning and management, developing and
implementing communications policies and procedures.
SEEK partners. This will involve the provision of communications guidance and capacity
building to interested partners. With the guidance from the Regional Communications CoPromising Career Opportunity ordinator, the Communications Officer will help partners to apply this guidance to their contexts.
community of practice for communications which will entail working with SEEK and RASMI
partners. With guidance from the Regional Communications Coordinator, the Communications
Officer will galvanize the Working Group by injecting energy and ideas, and formalizing its
ongoing modus operandi. The purpose is to share knowledge, strengthen the RASMI and SEEK
communications community and provide a platform for communications training and mentoring.
interest stories, infographics, podcast and blogs.
Competencies
To deliver these objectives and the associated scope of work, Pact Kenya is searching for a candidate with the following skills and experience:
its partners operate in complex environments and deliver a diverse portfolio of projects. To deliver long-term outcomes (scale up, replication, sustainability etc.) and help Pact Kenya to develop a reputation for excellence (responsive, pioneering, professional etc.) the successful candidate will need to demonstrate a deep conceptual understanding of strategic communications. They will also need to demonstrate knowledge of how communications work can be applied to the field of
conflict management and peacebuilding.
activities.
SEEK.
consultants, develop templates, send out press releases, create and send out newsletters using
Mailchimp.
which will allow them to build on this work and fully develop, implement and manage an effective Pact Kenya communications platform. Although not mandatory, Pact Kenya would strongly prefer to hire a candidate with knowledge of cross-border peacebuilding and conflict management.
communications. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their potential to provide
targeted support to RASMI and SEEK staff as well as partners to build in-house communications capacity and improve the coherence of communications activities across the two projects.
Qualifications
How to apply:
Interested applicants fulfilling the requirements are invited to send their application letter and CV to
kenyahr@pactworld.org indicating “Communications Officer” on the subject line. Deadline for applications: July 30th, 2018
Pact is an equal opportunities employer.
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