Marketing and Communication Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day digital communications activities of Teach For Lebanon
• Develop and conduct market research for setting national and regional marketing and communications priorities and strategies
• Develop a communications strategy and budget
• Ensure adherence to brand and positioning across the organization’s materials
• Creatively Develop materials to support all programmatic and development priorities
• Develop brand identity including logo, color palette, fonts, supporting graphics
• Create core materials to start operations
• Identify opportunities to elevate the image of the organization
• Manage external vendor’s relationship to update and develop the content of the website and other organizational media and platforms
• Draft and publish press releases and respond to press inquiries
• Supporting the Development team for fundraising events and creation of supporting materials
• Create communications of key messages about organization, mission, and goals and train staff on external communications
• Develop effective relationships with local and collegiate media
• Proactively contact media to fulfill requests, pitch story ideas, etc.
• Secure estimates and coordinate other logistical details with vendors
• Monitoring and communicating insights, statistics, and engagement indicators over our website and social media pages to document, analyze, and improve our reach and visibility
• Develop key communication indicators and messages related to TFL projects in coordination with the project managers.
• Send our monthly coverage highlights
• Track and coordinate marketing/communications budget with relative team members
• Implementing the communications strategy across Print, Broadcast, Radio, Outdoor and Online media
• Collaborate effectively with all departments at the organization to showcase impact and progress on projects 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Journalism, Marketing, Communications, Advertising or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the field of communications in a reputable organization, ideally within a media, public or nonprofit institution
• Proven track record in developing and leading comprehensive communications, media relations, marketing, and online strategies, including experience managing social media outreach
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Google Analytics, and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Web and graphics design (such as Photoshop and illustrator)
• Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong organization and writing skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Capable of working independently while also being a strong team player
• Adaptable to growing, fast-paced, diverse, results-oriented culture
• Strong time management skills and remain flexible in order to accommodate multiple projects simultaneously, with tight deadlines
• Detail-oriented and extremely organized

Knowledge, Skills, and Personal Attributes:

• Identify with Teach For Lebanon’s vision and values and have a passion for education
• Live up to TFL core values of commitment to equality, sense of possibility, mutual responsibility, reflection, and empathy
• Leadership and management experience
• Ability to work independently and under pressure
• Flexible and creative; being able to offer a variety of solutions for any given problem
• Cooperative and diplomatic
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills
• Exceptional writing skills with strong attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and team working skills
• Required languages: Arabic, English and French is a plus