Communications Manager at Family Empowerment Media

Family Empowerment Media seeks a skilled writer and strong generalist to support our communications and operations work. We expect the Communications Manager to spend around 50% of their time on communications and 50% on operations. 

Responsibilities may include: 

Communications - 50% 

• Create communication materials for FEM, such as newsletters, one-pagers, blog posts, videos, and social media posts.
• Copy-edit various written materials created by others, such as reports and blog posts.
• Improve and update the website as needed.
• Lead and support other communications-related tasks.

Operations - 50%

• Support FEM’s financial management, including assisting with budgeting and accounting tasks.
• Support FEM’s Human Resources (HR), including assisting with team management tasks and payroll.
• Help ensure FEM’s legal compliance by assisting with taxes and other regulatory matters for the countries in which FEM has operations (including Nigeria and the US).

Qualifications

We’re looking for a candidate with strong writing skills who can create engaging and informative content for the public. We are also looking for someone with strong generalist qualities. The successful candidate will be inspired by our mission and demonstrate a commitment to our core values of ambitious altruism, evidence-based decision-making, cultural sensitivity, humility, and transparency. The Communications Manager will possess some or most of the following qualities:

• Strong generalist: a fast learner who enjoys a challenge and is able to independently progress on important projects throughout our organisation.
• Skilled written communicator: creates powerful, professional, and compelling written content that concisely conveys complex ideas.
• Team player: enjoys working collaboratively on projects and is able to both give and receive constructive feedback.
• Process-oriented leader: follows organisational processes and has an interest in finding ways to improve them.
• Detail-oriented: an analytical thinker who enjoys searching for errors within specific projects and systems.

Please apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria. We would love to see your application.

Benefits of working at FEM

• High impact: Enabling our model's successful scaling can improve thousands of lives. Our intervention was chosen for its high cost-effectiveness and strong evidence base from 188 ideas evaluated by Charity Entrepreneurship 
• Community: You will have the opportunity to become a part of the Charity Entrepreneurship community and connect with experts in the field.
• Flexibility: You will experience a high level of freedom and autonomy as we offer both remote and office-based working environments.
• Personal growth: You are guaranteed to be challenged with a variety of tasks and receive rapid and implementable feedback.  
• Entrepreneurial experience: You will work with a scale-up and gain insight into the entrepreneurial process.