- Communication Duties and Responsibilities
- Developing a cohesive communications strategy.
- Assembling and overseeing a diversely skilled communications team, Volunteers, and Intern/s.
- Crisis management and preemptive planning.
- Cultivating an environment of readiness and alertness.
- Maintaining an awareness of company risks and threats.
- Projecting a positive company image to the public.
- Managing media relations.
- Managing a communications budget.
- Ensuring quality control of all information released.
- Media Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a new media strategy aligned to URDA, with a focus on our campaign, advocacy, programmatic, and humanitarian work.
- Assembling and overseeing a diversely skilled social media team, Volunteers, and Intern/s.
- Handling media enquiries, drafting comments and media releases, developing, and maintaining a network of key media contacts, hosting media visits to field programmes and acting as a focal point for media requests.
- The post-holder will support the function of risk mitigation, in cooperation with senior management and advocacy colleagues, and proactively spot opportunities for brand development.
- Build and maintain relationships with key national and international journalists and media outlets.
- Arrange media briefings and act as a spokesperson when required.
- Stay up to date on developments on media tools and trends, including social media, and train colleagues on these as needed.
- Work internally with social media, humanitarian communications and programmatic teams to ensure consistent messaging.
Intervention Sectors
Communications & Media
Location
- Lebanon
- Mount Lebanon
- Aaley
- Choueifat
Application Deadline
Organisation
Salary Range
2000 to 2500 (USD)
Contract Type
Full Time
Application Submission Guidelines
Interested applicants are encouraged to submit their CVs along with the cover letter and their Individual Registration by email to hr@urda.org.lb, mentioning the title of the position in the email subject.
Applicants must submit their CVs between 8:00 AM & 4:00 PM ONLY, Emails without cover letter and Individual Registration or wrong content in the subject will be DISMISSED.
Requires a Cover Letter?
Yes
Experience Requirements
5 to 10 years
Education Degree
Bachelor Degree
Education Degree Details
A. Academic Qualifications
• University qualification in journalism, public relations, media and mass communication or a related field with master’s and bachelor’s degree level study completed.
B. Professional Background
• Minimum Seven years of experience working as a media specialist for an international organization.
• Experience in using media as a tool for advocacy, campaign, and/or humanitarian needs.
• Experience in people management, strategic planning and networking in the media and communications sector.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing strategic and impactful media strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate complex issues in a compelling way for a variety of audiences.
• Ability to identify key influencers and media targets, network and build relationships.
• An innate ‘news’ sense and a proven ability to produce crisp, punchy media copy to tight deadlines.
• University qualification in journalism, public relations, media and mass communication or a related field with master’s and bachelor’s degree level study completed.
B. Professional Background
• Minimum Seven years of experience working as a media specialist for an international organization.
• Experience in using media as a tool for advocacy, campaign, and/or humanitarian needs.
• Experience in people management, strategic planning and networking in the media and communications sector.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing strategic and impactful media strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate complex issues in a compelling way for a variety of audiences.
• Ability to identify key influencers and media targets, network and build relationships.
• An innate ‘news’ sense and a proven ability to produce crisp, punchy media copy to tight deadlines.
Arabic
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
Good
Hide guidelines for wrong answers
No