350Africa.org is looking for a dynamic Africa Communications Manager to lead on all regional communications work. This includes developing and implementing strategic regional traditional communications plans for specific campaigns and regional events, developing regionally relevant traditional media materials, such as press releases, op-eds, and media packages, and identifying media opportunities as well as relevant media contacts, cultivate relationships with regional journalists, and further develop and maintain media contacts lists.
About 350.org
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.
About the Africa Communications Manager
The Africa Communications Manager leads on all regional communications work. This includes developing and implementing strategic regional traditional communications plans for specific campaigns and regional events, developing regionally relevant traditional media materials, such as press releases, op-eds, and media packages, and identifying media opportunities as well as relevant media contacts, cultivate relationships with regional journalists, and further develop and maintain media contacts lists.
The Africa Communications Manager will manage and implement day-to-day communications work of the team while collaborating departmentally and interdepartmentally to ensure alignment between 350.org’s global, regional, and cross-regional communications.
The role reports to the Africa Regional Director and is part of the Africa Regional Team, and 350.org’s Global Communications Team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure smooth flow of information between global communications and regional team, with a view to:
- Identify opportunities for amplification of regional content globally
- Amplify cross-regional and global moments regionally.
- Adapt global messaging and products to regional context
- Provide input into regional campaign and programme/project strategies from a communications angle.
- Regular media analysis for key regional campaigns and priority moments
- Outline of quarterly and yearly work plan for regional communications work and how it connects to departmental goals and success indicators
- Maintaining and ensuring flow of information and alignment between programme and communications strategies both regionally and in key priority countries
- Managing media relations with reporters and other relevant partners
Required Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of relevant technical work experience, including developing and implementing communications campaigns for change, such as petitions, social media actions, mobilisations, or creative online disruption tactics, and managing supporter communities (such as large mailing lists, online groups, subscribers, social media followers, online activist spaces) in a non-profit or political context.
- Proficient in Google Suite, Meltwater, Salesforce, Falcon, Slack, and Zoom or similar systems
- Working knowledge of and keen interest in the current global debates on climate change, energy, and climate justice
- Experience in managing projects as well as coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience working in an international setting, across countries, regions and cultures, in a distributed, multicultural team, where work happens online and across different time zones.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- Excellent written and spoken French (strong advantage)
- Strong working knowledge of traditional and social media
- Experience working remotely, ideally in an international context
- Experience working in nongovernmental organization or nonprofit sector
- Experience and competency working in multicultural groups
- Experience working with marginalized communities deeply affected by climate change and fossil fuels, such as indigenous communities on the front lines of fighting the extractive industry.
Position Type: Full Time
Application Deadline: This job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.
Start Date: (flexible)
Compensation: Salary tier 3.1 with the annual compensation being: Benin: XOF 20,324,356 Kenya: KES 4,802,125 Senegal: XOF 19,994,448 South Africa: ZAR 750,676
Location: Remote within Senegal, South Africa, Benin, Kenya,
Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
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