Country Communications Manager

Tasks and Responsibilities

• • To development and delivery, the Project Communications Plan/strategy, including designing and updating a calendar of public communications events in Europe, Lebanon;
  • Participate in the “Back To The Future” Projects Leading Committees.
  • Coordinate the work of the Communication Officer/s (including the Cos of the BTTF consortium
  • Lead communications visits in Lebanon; coordinating the visits of VIPs, ambassadors, Journalists; lead on briefings for guests.
  • Regularly update and report on the progress of the Communications Plan and Events Calendar.
  • To champion and monitor the use of brand and style guidelines, and key messages in project communications.
  • To supervise the production of written content and develop designs for multi-media communications (either within the communication department or in collaboration with technical specialists) for the project, including but not limited to: Website content, Social Media content, Public Event Content, design and branding for projects and delegation materials (i.e. presentations, project fact-sheets, project brochures/leaflets, and photo books), and will support field staff in budgeting for and running public events, Filmed content.
  • Lead and design a body of project communications materials; photo library, project fact-sheets, leaflets, info-graphics, roll up banners, brochures, flyers etc.
• Lead of training design and delivery for projects, field staff and consortium staff on the communications plan/strategy and provide guidance/delegate responsibility on how they can contribute to the production of communications materials.
• Ensure that all project visibility is in line with donors’ visibility regulations and respects TDH and the projects’ brand identity; lead of capacity building of staff in this respect
• Be prepared to travel to Europe to implement the BTTF communications plan in Europe.
• Lead the organization with its media/communication missions from the Nederland and Italy, as foreseen.
• Support TDH Italy Managers with proposal development, in terms of suggesting communications/visibility actions and accompanying budgets.
• Support TDH Italy Lebanon delegation procurement department and the project managers through establishing the list of communication items, which requires printing, at the beginning of each project. As well as the technical specs for those items.

Requirements and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in journalism, public relations, marketing, related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in communications management.
• Strong creative and technical writing, editing, proofreading, and including ability to present concepts verbally.
• Self-motivated and possess excellent organizational, planning, and time management skills.
• Strong team working skills and flexibility
• Expert in MS Office applications, primarily Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to multi-task across multiple projects, strong strategic planning, and effective time management skills.
• Experience developing, executing, and evolving internal and external communications.

Desirable knowledge and experience:

Additional  Assets:

• branding and design experience
• proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• speaking and written fluency in Arabic, English, (Italian is a plus)
• verbal and written translation
• taking pictures using semiprofessional camera