Communication Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Duty Station:     Dutse, Jigawa           

Position Overview:
The Communication Officer will play a key role in implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) funded by the UK’s Department for International Development and being implemented jointly by Action Against Hunger (AAH) and by Save the Children UK (SCUK). From 2013-2019, CDGP will provide 110,000 pregnant women and mothers with children under two with unconditional cash transfers and nutrition behaviour change communication training in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria
Specific Objectives

• Develop a communication plan, tools and materials to ensure successful program implementation of CDGP for various stakeholders (beneficiaries, community, donor government and other).
• Liaise closely with Senior Management from AAH and CDGP SCI to develop and support the integration of new communication approaches, tools and techniques into the CDGP as the program scales up and rolls out.
• Review and adapt AAH communication tools, materials and systems for the CDGP and Northern Nigeria context while also ensuring adherence to ACF institutional communication policies and guidelines.
• Maintain and organize communication data and materials.
• Maintain contact and other relevant information about key stakeholders and audiences involved in CDGP
• Document and share good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities at the local community and state levels.
• Organize learning, knowledge sharing and capitalization workshops at local level to enable lessons learned to be used in future program design in collaboration with DPM M&E/PQA Officer.
• Represent AAH externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups.
• Act as primary AAH external relations focal point at the local and state level in consultation with the Field Coordinator.
• Manage media related issues in accordance to ACF policy and under supervision of Social Protection Program Manager and Country Director. 

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in media, communications, marketing or equivalent. Advanced level degree and/or significant communications expertise preferred.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive
• Highly collaborative style; experience in developing and implementing communications strategies
• Excellent writing/editing, analytical and verbal communication skills.
• Relationship builder with the flexibility and finesse to "manage by influence"
• High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to serve as a unifying force and to position communications discussions at both the strategic and tactical levels.
• Sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, board members, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
• Self-starter, able to work independently, and entrepreneurial; enjoys creating and implementing new initiatives.
• Experience in working with NGO donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities.
• Fluency in Hausa and English.
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word) and Publisher Experience in humanitarian communications.
• Experience in designing and leading media campaign or communication strategies.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Commitment to AAH mission, values and policy.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming, particularly cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).
• Previous experience with behaviour change communication programming.
• Previous experience with AAH.