Communication Officer at Academic Associates Peaceworks

General Position Summary

• S/he designs new content and maintains, strategies, tools, and processes for routinely gathering information, and presenting it to a wide variety of audiences, including the production of a monthly country-level AA Peaceworks newsletter.
• S/he develops or guides strategic communications that not only showcase the ‘Impact’ of AA Peaceworks’ work within all programming, reflecting, and reinforcing the strategic and cross-cutting objectives for AA Peaceworks.
• S/he will develop and maintain best practices and provide support and guidance to program communication leads in their efforts to demonstrate program achievements and integrate stories and research findings into their reports and communications.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement a communications strategy and plan for AA Peaceworks, ensuring that it aligns with and supports the achievement of AA Peaceworks’ strategic objectives.
• Provide audiovisual reports and documentaries for program activities to tell AAPW stories.
• Effectively manage all the social media handles of AAPW.
• Proactively optimize the visibility of the organization’s social impact and position the organization as a thought leader.
• Provide strategic guidance for program integration and sequencing in line with the AA Peaceworks strategy, with a view to communications and learning priorities.
• Lead the development and design of high-level resources and activities to showcase the organization’s impacts and innovations.
• As needed, assist with program design, start-up, and implementation, for social behavioral change communication-related activities.
• Coordinate and support the program team to ensure project and donor communications obligations are met.
• Act as the brand manager, maintaining standards across materials, events, and other media engagement, website, and social media pages.
• Develop external communications materials, such as press releases, talking points for the country director, and positioning statements, in collaboration with the Regional Communications team.
• Support the program team in reports writing to donors and all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide technical support on visibility needs and requirements as per relevant donor regulations.
• Build the capacity and performance of staff and partners in developing success stories and multimedia and visual resources, maximizing the use of internal communications platforms, increasing program and impact visibility, and any other areas of communication that are linked to donor branding/marking requirements.
• Build the capacity of project teams to produce well-documented narratives and infographics that highlight program impact including information on lessons learned to inform programmatic adaptation or course-correction of activities and future program design.

Qualification and Experience

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in Social Science, Journalism, Communications, International Development, or other relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in coordinating and producing written and audiovisual content for donor engagement, public advocacy, media, and community relations.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English required, including report development, writing, and editing.
• Excellent computer skills, including experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.
• Experience with Adobe’s design suite is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability as a collaborator and facilitator.
• Experience in Niger Delta Region is an added advantage