Communication Advisor at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Communication Advisor

Location: Abuja

Dimensions of the Role

• The position is a strategic communication role, providing technical guidance on promotion of organisation's brand, activities, or products.
• Will, in conjunction with the rest of the communication team, work to ensure that the brand remains in the consciousness of its clients and target audience.
• The consultant will also support capacity building of staff in brand awareness, create enriched employee training materials.

Accountabilities

• Develop, implement and update, as needed, a Strategic Social Media Strategy and Action Plan.
• Support the development of external communications including, but not limited to, success stories, reports, and other materials that communicate project’s lessons and successes over the years.
• Manage the organisation's online presence by producing good content and analysing usage data.
• Monitor SEO and web traffic metrics
• Communicate with followers, respond to queries in a timely manner and monitor reviews.
• Supervise production of multi-media products, including social media presence enhancing products for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok etc.
• Generate, edit, publish and share engaging content daily (e.g. original text, photos, videos and news.
• Develop messages with high levels of planning and research of audience behaviours and perceptions to enhance the achievement of the organisation's ambitions.
• Generate new ideas, concepts and techniques to make use of the social media in the organisation more effective.
• To provide a public relation function by supporting the Policy, Research and Influencing Manager in building and maintaining contacts for Plan International Nigeria within entertainment, celebrity and political circles in order to promote the work and strategic aims of the organisation.
• Assist the Communications Advisor in preparing presentations and investment content for print and electronic media.
• Do constant analysis of and profiling of the organisation’s clients and audiences for a deep understanding of their information needs and best means of meeting them.
• Coordinate Country Office level actions targeted at global and strategic moments.
• Develop marketing and promotional content for the media and the web.
• In conjunction with the Head on Human Resources and the IT Unit maintain organisation internal communications and intranet.
• Support the Plan International’s emergency response team to ensure that the country programme’s strategies and situation reports have clear advocacy objectives and strategies, and indicators for assessing the impact of Plan’s advocacy work.

Technicalities Expertise, Skills and Knowledge

• At least five years’ experience working as strategic communications specialist in INGO environment.
• Good oral communication/presentation skills
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, including ability to find, absorb, analyse and prioritise information from many different sources.
• Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, with competing priorities and minimal supervision
• Should have excellent communication skills and be able to express our Plan International’s views creatively.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work in multi-national, multi-cultural teams
• Ability to do analysis of organization communication, demographic analysis, understand modern communication styles and the ability to craft messaging for a global audience.
• Proven experience of strategy development
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Computer literate and well-versed in basic software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc).

Application Closing Date
28th August, 2022.