Fresher Communications Assistant Coordinator NGO Job Opportunities – Restless Development
Job Title: Communications Assistant Coordinator
Organization: Restless Development
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager
Salary: UGX 34,149,393 /=
About US:
Restless Development (Uganda) is an International NGO established to address the challenges faced by young people in Uganda by placing young people at the forefront of change and development. Our vision is for all Ugandan youth to live healthy and productive lives, fully supported by those around them. Our programming focuses on three core areas: youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth civic participation and youth employment and livelihoods.
Job Summary: The Communications Assistant Coordinator will develop our Communications strategy to increase Restless Development Uganda’s visibility, enabling us to inform and influence our partners, government and other actors. You will be highly creative and organised with strong skills across various areas of communications including social media, writing, video, editing, photography, event management.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Communications strategy 50% With support from your team, develop and implement a 2-year communications strategy and annual plan to increase Restless Development Uganda’s visibility including:
- Social media (FB, Inst, Twitter, Blogs #WeAreRestless)
- Event management – National Youth Working Group, International Youth Day, Restless Values day, partner events,
- Media engagement incl press, TV, radio, online media, offline media, key influencers
- Youth Collective and Alumni engagement incl contact database management (CIVI)
- Develop targets to track Restless Development Uganda’s visibility including website and social media engagement
- Sharing programmes outputs and research in creative ways with our audiences.
- Manage our brand, ensuring it is understood and used effectively by staff and helps achieve our goals and mission.
Content Development 25% Working with the Programmes and M&E Teams and others, develop content including:
- Developing and editing videos to engage external stakeholders
- Photo library to include inspiring photos across all our work
- Ensure photo and video content is well maintained and stays updated across our channels.
- Generating, writing and designing stories of change to share the impact of our work
- Lead production design and distribution of innovative and high quality newsletters and annual report to update external stakeholders
- Updating our website with new and relevant information
- Curate all content so it is easily accessible for relevant stakeholders
Internal comms 20%
- Be the link for the Restless Development Uganda Hub internally including
- Taking and sharing minutes of Board and CLT meetings
- Ensuring relevant information is accessible to all staff using Google drive
- Connect and share updates to and from other Hubs and International
- Track and share updates, trends and innovation on youth development from Gov’t, UN agencies, donors, movements and other key influencers to inform our work
- Editing documents for teams
- Sharing monthly internal updates including leadership and programmes
Other Duties: 5%
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Restless Development Communications Assistant Coordinator job opportunity must hold a graduate level degree
- Two years’ work experience in communications
- Proven experience of coordinating communication projects from design to completion including evaluating impact
- Excellent writing, editing, designing and photography skills
- Ability to read, synthesis information to produce clear, well written summaries
- Experience in video editing and design – ideally with experience in Adobe software
- Experience in maintaining a website
- Demonstrated social media experience at a high level
- Personal commitment to Restless Developments vision and values
- Passionate about Youth led development
- Experience of developing and implementing communication plans including advocacy, media and programmes
- Experience working in the Youth or International development sector
- The individual must be results oriented, highly self-motivated, have demonstrated analytical skills and be comfortable with a rapidly changing environment.
- The successful individual will also be able to establish strong working relationships with staff in Uganda and internationally.
- The successful candidate will be personally committed to Restless Development Uganda’s mission and values.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join Restless Development in the aforementioned capacity should fill in this form, download here, and send it to ugandajobs@restlessdevelopment.org. Please note that we DO NOT accept CVs, resumes and cover letters.
Deadline: 30th April 2018
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