Forum Communications Lead

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Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Comms/ Digital/ Media
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: $65,548 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 09/11/2023
  • Location: Remote (global)
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Branding and Communications Strategy:
●      Implement the Forum brand for 2024 that reflects the Forum vibe
●      Develop a Communications and Outreach Strategy to disseminate information in a timely way, and to generate excitement towards the Forum
●      Create (write) materials about the Forum for other AWID initiatives to use, and to be included in
Forum materials and tweaked for social media and other purposes

Forum Website Writing and Architecture, and App Text development
●      Develop architecture for the Forum website and for the Forum App
●      With Program teams, write forum thematic text (text about the programmatic elements of the forum, the themes we are discussing), and ongoing updates and content for the website
●      With the Forum team, write functional text (text about visas and logistics, announcements, etc) for the Forum website

Forum Marketing Communications
●       Create and implement campaigns via email and social media, including writing text
●       Do regular social media updates, to keep the Forum top of mind
●       Develop multimedia materials as an adjunct to the text-based campaigns

Write and Produce Forum Publications, which include but not exclusive to:
●       Registration Booklet (12-16 page booklet)
●       Programme Booklet (around 50 pages, book)

Team and organizational leadership, development and support
●      Ensure the timely and effective implementation of deliverables linked to individual work plans, including all activities, reports and evaluations.
●      Develop professional development objectives, monitors individual work plan, timesheets, staff expenses, and other HR and admin requirements
●      Seek guidance and works towards setting and meeting own SMART performance objectives
●      Participate and contribute to the Forum coordination and planning meetings
●      Explore new ideas for improving management of duties and enhancing one’s own capacity
●      Carry out any other relevant tasks as required by, and mutually agreed with the your line manager

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS
Essential Values and Competencies
●      Value a feminist intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and committed to the principles of feminism, anti-oppression.
●      Integrity, Transparency and Accountability
●      Critical thinking and analysis
●      Strategic risk management
●      Ability to build strong trust-based interpersonal relations across the organization

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience
●      At least 5 years experience in Communications and Outreach
●      Background in Organizational Communications, preferably at a nonprofit or social justice organization
●      Experience creating and implementing multi-faceted communications strategies
●      Experience in event-focused campaigns an asset
●      Excellent writing skills, with an ability to craft on simple, clear, effective, friendly communications messages for diverse audiences
●      Experience working work with images and video (multimedia) as well as text
●      Knowledge of, and experience with, the design and print production process
●      Knowledge of feminist organizations and issues an asset
●      High levels of creativity; innovative and original thinker
●      Strong design sensibility; knowledge of design principles

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