Girl Hub Ethiopia
Manager, Global Communications
Vacancy Location Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Number of positions 1
Closing Date 1st February 2013
Anticipated job start date 1 April 2013
Minimum duration 2 years
Anticipated post end date 30 March 2015
Selection Method Paper application review and Interview
Background
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between DFID and the Nike Foundation that seeks to transform the lives of adolescent girls, with girls themselves as active participants in identifying and creating solutions to the challenges that they face. It is designed to combine the best of DFID and the Nike Foundation, to bring energy and inspire efforts to do more and better for girls at scale.
Girl Hub is a catalyst for expanding the ‘girl effect’ – the evidence that investing in an adolescent girl is one of the best ways of ending intergenerational poverty. Girl Hub measures its success through tangible changes in the lives of adolescent girls, focusing on areas which evidence shows to be particularly important for the girls themselves, their future children and for wider economic and social development. This includes the numbers of girls avoiding child marriage, delaying their first pregnancy and birth, completing primary and transitioning to secondary school, and benefiting from economic opportunities and assets.
We are looking for exceptional talent and commitment to join an exciting and dynamic operation, leading storytelling and operational PR management for Girl Hub’s Ethiopia office. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, confident and experienced in working across an integrated team, have strong writing skills and keen attention to detail. He or she must be thoughtful and authentically passionate about what we do.
The jobholder will be part of the Girl Hub Ethiopia team, and the Global Communications team, and will have dual reporting lines:
1. A local reporting line to the Country Director of Girl Hub Ethiopia.
2. A professional reporting line to the Global Director of Communications for the Nike Foundation, based in Beaverton, Oregon (Nike Foundation Global HQ).
Job description/key responsibilities
The jobholder will be responsible for strategic oversight of the following areas across Girl Hub’s Ethiopian office, and for the operational implementation of these areas for Girl Hub Ethiopia:
Projecting to local and global audiences the results delivered by Girl Hub, including:
· Identifying and developing storytelling opportunities on the ground;
· Supporting the management and deployment of Nike Foundation ‘Girl Champions’ – powerful, high-profile advocates for the Girl Effect;
· Judicious use and management of DFID and UK Government advocates, including Ministers;
· Liaising with Nike Foundation and DFID E teams to provide internal communications support across the two organisations; and
· Supporting the management of local agency and vendor relationships;
Igniting the potential of girls by collaborating with brand marketing and insight colleagues to create powerful, compelling content to inspire and equip girls to lift themselves out of poverty. Where appropriate, this will include connecting global and local creative communities.
Informing, involving and engaging key partners in the Girl Effect by:
· Being a vocal advocate for the use of strategic communication and effective and compelling storytelling by Girl Hub Ethiopia, in order to engage partners in the Girl Effect;
· Supporting the Country Director for Girl Hub Ethiopia in delivery of an influencing strategy, and
· Personally developing relationships with influencers and key partners from media, sport, Government, aid and creative sectors.
Personal Qualities and Skills Required (Person Specification)
· Extensive experience of working directly with the media
· Excellent political awareness and judgement
· Proven experience of working in a developing country context
· Proven experience of using strategic communications to deliver and influence policy change
· Strong relationship management, influencing and network skills
· Excellent oral and written communications skills
· Ability to work independently
· Ability to represent Girl Hub at a senior level
Technical competencies and professional skills
Communications specialist.
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