Communications Coordinator

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

The communications coordinator is a key strategic staff in the Communications and Advocacy Unit, with the space to design and lead communications efforts that align with WVL advocacy and organizational strategy. A main responsibility will be to coordinate and support full implementation of WVL’s communication and visibility plan under the direction of the Communications and Advocacy manager and in collaboration with the National Director.

Coordinate, plan, and support the production of evidence-based communications resources

• Develop communications and visibility and plans for Area Development Programmes and Grants in alignment with the annual programme and advocacy strategies, ENOUGH campaign, and donor and fund manager guidelines
• Produce content in alignment with the C&V plans and with the ENOUGH campaign deliverables
• Organize and lead a communications training around “communications for development” for interested staff especially front liners as part of the emergency preparedness efforts.
• Manage communications planning and reporting trackers and ensure proper uploading (story hub and website) and archiving.
• Allocate new resources based on consortium initiatives and interventions.
• Provide feedback and revisions to outsourced and internally produced communications resources
• Ensure that a comprehensive archiving platform is created to record all the communications material developed by all partners. Drafts, design files, and final products will be documented on this platform with their relevant descriptions.

Contribute to higher reach through local and international media and social media.

• Coordinate and design media outreach plan and engage with journalists, including pitching project initiatives, resulting in increased positive coverage of World Vision’s work in local and national media outlets.
• Cultivate and nurture relationships with local journalists in activities and training as per the communications and visibility plan.
• Cultivate, nurture, and engage a with international and local media and press outlets representatives to establish WV as a lead information source on issues and opportunities related to its work
• Develop press strategies to promote key opportunities, telling compelling stories that garner coverage through designing media kits and writing press releases and other materials
• Maintain media database, including updated contact lists and documentation of media relations activities related to each contact.
• Develop social media strategy and establish annual calendar to that integrates key events, activities, and initiatives.
• Ensure efficient social media channels are selected/established. Monitor relevant digital platforms ensuring proper coordination and yielding high exposure for project.

Branding, Visibility and Reporting

• Develop internal and external communication, as required and in alignment with the C&V plan. 
• Develop reporting and analysis methods on media and Social Media engagement and reach, as well as visibility.
• Design a communication strategy to promote WVL’s milestones and lead on WVL’s milestones visibility efforts

Perform other duties as required

• Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally
• Attend and participate in WVL’s spiritual nurture and other organizational events
• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Line Manager

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Audio-visual, journalism, communications
• 2 to 3 years of experience working in communications or journalism or a related field.
• 2 to 3 years of experience working with NGOs.
• Proven track record of social media experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Arabic. 
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 70% of the time.  
• Videography and editing skills, photography skills, story writing, media connections.
• Ability to work with minimal direction, with team members as well as alone.
• Experience of coordinating work between different stakeholders and partners
• Ability to cope with working in a dynamic and changing environment
• Experience working with donors and government institutions

As a Christian organisation, World Vision is founded on the biblical principles that women and men, girls and boys are created in the image of God, and of Jesus’ love for all people without discrimination. This means that we recognise and affirm the equal worth, dignity and rights of women, men, girls and boys with and without disability and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.