The Assistant Communications Officer is a full-time staff position with the primary responsibility of demonstrating and communicating CorpsAfrica’s efforts related to project impact, fundraising, marketing, and other areas as needed. This person will have a significant opportunity to help build the organization’s image brand and there is ample room for professional advancement.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the CorpsAfrica/Kenya staff
and Volunteers on programmatic aspects of operations and communicating
project impact.
- Promote the organization with media, donors, and
government authorities clear messaging and communication materials.
- Help establish and maintain consistent
organization image during events and fundraising activities.
- Strategically build and maintain the
organization’s social media platforms. 5. Create and implement events to
raise awareness of CorpsAfrica/Kenya.
- Come up with creative ways of telling
CorpsAfrica/Kenya’s stories that speak to the hearing of donors,
development partners, government, communities, media, the public etc. 7.
Create and manage social media pages for CorpsAfrica/Kenya
- Plan and design contents for CorpsAfrica/Kenya
official social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
- Generate and analyze reports
(monthly/quarterly/half yearly) on web traffic and KPIs using Google
Analytics, and other social media focused analytics channels.
- Actively engage with online audiences through
social media channels. Timely responses to messages and comments, monthly
reports on levels of engagement.
- Develop multi-media communications materials,
including blog posts and social media content.
- Maintain digital media archives including photos
and videos and maintain records of media coverage and collate analytics
and metrics.
- Develop and maintain contact information and
materials with journalists and media outlets (print, TV, radio, web, photo
etc.)
- Develop and archive communication materials,
including digital, such as publications, press releases and clippings,
photographs, audio-visual materials, web resources, etc.
- Create quarterly newsletters for development
partners, donors, and other stakeholders that captures activities,
projects and impact.
- Any other responsibilities assigned to you by
the Communications Officer or Country Director.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in communications
- Should be proficient in Canva, Adobe Premiere
Pro and Adobe Indesign c) Highly organized and detail oriented.
- A passion and commitment to youth leadership,
participatory community development, impact evaluation, transparency, and
accountability
- Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and
communication skills
- Time management skills
- Fluency in English is required.
How to Apply
