Female Advocacy Officer (Volunteer) at Women in ICT Foundation

Women in ICT Foundation is a non-for-profit, non-partisan, non-political and non-religious organization that focuses on providing technology education for women and young girls. We envision a world where women are proportionally represented as technical leaders, executives, founders, VCs, board members, and software engineers.

Encouraging young girls to pursue courses in this area and women to pursue careers in the ICT industry is not only a matter of social justice or increasing diversity but an economic necessity. The skills they acquire through the programs give these women a chance at well-paying jobs, as well as the ability to establish them as an entrepreneurs and leaders of technology.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Female Advocacy Officer (Volunteer)

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities
To coordinate advocacy and communications efforts:

• Feed into, finalise and internally communicate Women in ICT Communications and Advocacy Plan, ensuring the programme is consistently using uniform messages from the Communications and Advocacy Plan
• Organise events, meetings and campaigns to ensure that the advocacy plan is active and moving forwards.
• Collect and document project stories for sharing, learning and advocacy.
• Create a map of partners in the areas of each objective of advocacy plan.
• Engage partners in line with the advocacy and communications objectives and positively influence decision makers.
• Ensure there is continuous information flow on advocacy events, meetings, initiatives between Women in ICT and other key players.

Support to the Women in ICT Project and Programmes:

• Collaborate with staff in general planning and review meetings.
• Support the development of the radio programmes and undertake any other initiatives to achieve the stated objectives.

General:

• Whenever possible undertake exciting and interesting initiatives to complement the impact of the project and programme.
• Ensure that the work is carried out at all times with the utmost of privacy and confidentiality
• Commit to promoting equality in terms of race, gender, culture, sexual orientation, and disability, so that Women in ICT is recognised as an open and welcoming resource that challenges discrimination and works to address needs of disadvantaged groups.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a university degree in Communication, Social Science, Behavioural Change Communication, Computer Sciences, Strategic Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
• Experience in Advocacy work with marginalised and vulnerable groups.
• Excellent oral/written communication skills in English and one or more additional Nigerian local languages a plus.
• At least two years of experience in implementing and managing communication or advocacy projects or campaigns and developing context.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: advocacy@womeninict.org using the "Job title" as subject of the email