CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: ActionAid
Country: South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 04 Nov 2014

ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL

DIRECTORATE: Fundraising and Communications

Position: Campaigns Communications and Planning Coordinator

Location: Johannesburg or London

Salary: £38,332 per annum / 457,670 ZAR equivalent (entry salary)

International Grade D

Purpose of the Role:Supporting the Communications Team to ensure integrated communication planning & coordination across digital, content and media channels, brand integration and development, effective ways of working and internal communications with international secretariat directorates and ActionAid members, systems management and corporate communications across the ActionAid federation.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Liaise with the Policy, Research Advocacy and Campaigns, and IHART and the other International Secretariat teams on plans, projects and events that require communications support, and co-ordinate this support.
• Identify risks (including reputational) that may arise from the campaigns and how they will be managed
• Work closely with Policy and Advocacy Managers and Teams to input and facilitate ICT input into the design and delivery of communications plans to support advocacy objectives
• Support the annual planning process by project managing contributions and resource requests
• Support the project management of activities, acting as a central coordination point within the Communications Team
• Support the Communications Team to create, manage and implement policies, guidance and tools to support communications shared learning and capability building across ActionAid
• Lead in producing Communication Teams internal communications products
• Responsibility of managing delegated budgets

Desired Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• A Bachelors is essential (social science/arts/humanities degree)
• Proven experience of planning and coordinating priorities and creating processes and tools to support effective planning.
• Knowledge and experience of supporting the creation of communications policies and tools and supporting a shared learning programme
• Experience of financial tracking and budget management
• Knowledge of public campaigning approaches, including messages, audiences and delivery methods, which aim to inspire and motivate people to take action
• Able to manage self and others in order to meet tight deadlines and multiple priorities
• Strong networking/relationship-building skills - ability to anticipate, coordinate and facilitate activities with colleagues
• A proven commitment to team work and strong collaborative and diplomacy skills

How to apply:

Application Procedures

Applications should be sent with your CV, motivation cover letter by no later than4 November 2014**. You are requested to highlight in the motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. Please clearly indicate which position you are applying for.**

External Applications send to: frcomms.jhb@actionaid.org

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid International will not consider candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes applications from all section of the community.