Media and Communications Consultant

ABOUT ARK Group:

ARK Group is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions

to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.

We believe that resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability

– and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world.

At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008.

As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

ARK seeks an experienced and dynamic Media and Communications officer to oversee day-to-day management of and content production for all project-related media.

The Media and Communications officer will work under the supervision of the Project Manager but bears primary responsible for planning and implementing all media and communications work in support of project activities and strategic objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop a media and communications strategy in coordination with the Project Manager and other project staff to support and fulfil project objectives.
• Identify target audiences and create strategies to effectively engage them.
• Manage and develop innovative and strategic cutting-edge social media content and campaigns and grow social media platforms’ audience on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other relevant existing and emerging platforms.
• Manage the project’s online social community and engage with community members
• Collaborate with project management team to generate and create innovate digital and multimedia products that will appeal to the target audiences.
• Work with the Project Manager and other project staff to ensure comprehensive digital coverage of project events and to leverage online media to support offline project activities
• Analyse social media platforms’ digital metrics and provide a narrative monthly digital report to reflect the impact of the content.
• Develop and write case studies and success stories highlighting the importance and success of the project.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• Experience Required: A minimum of 3 years of social media and communications experience
• Education: Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or related field or equivalent professional qualification.
• Knowledge of innovations in social media and ability to account for these in social media strategies
• Knowledge of social media platforms including posting and sharing
• Fluency in English language

Desirable

• Ability to work under pressure, be a self-starter, team builder, innovative and demonstrate the capacity for maintaining high professional standards.
• Ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience in video production and graphic design are a plus.

MORE ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

What Makes Us Different

We pride ourselves on being the first people able to access and operate in challenging fragile and conflict-affected environments.

We are expeditionary by design and our systems and structures enable flexible and agile responses while ensuring safe, effective and compliant delivery.

Working with and through teams drawn from the communities in which we operate enables us to deliver impactful interventions built on intimate local understanding.

In collaboration with our global network of international and local experts, we integrate nuanced understanding of the challenges we aim to solve with best practice and field-leading innovation to deliver programming that meets short-term stabilisation objectives and builds the evidence base and knowledge needed to lay the groundwork for long-term peacebuilding and development programming.

What We Do

We enjoy sectoral experience in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, stabilisation, gender, security and justice, as well as cross-cutting experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.

Our People

Today, our team covers a diverse range of professional backgrounds; from diplomacy, humanitarian, development and the military, to the UN, civil society groups, multilateral organisations, journalism and the private sector.

They bring sectoral expertise in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, gender and security and justice, as well as practical experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.

The multi-disciplinary and multi-national nature of our team means the research we undertake and the programmes we deliver are grounded in empirical need and deliver measurable and sustainable impact.

*ARK Group is an equal opportunity employer. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

ARK Group does not discriminate on the basis of ability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. We welcome all kinds of diversity.

ARK Group places human dignity at the centre of its development and stabilisation work and is thus committed to the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse of children and adults.

All ARK Group employees and related-personnel are expected to share this commitment, and only those who also uphold these values will be recruited as part of our team.

This vacancy is therefore subject to a range of due diligence checks.***