Media & Communication Officer at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON)

Contract duration: 6 months (1 months as probation contract) with option to extend.

POSITION SUMMARY.

The Advocacy and Communications Officer will play a lead role in coordinating GOALPrime’s advocacy and communications initiatives, plans and activities.  

Specific responsibilities

• Support the provision of high quality analysis on the humanitarian situation in Northeast Nigeria, pertaining to displacement-affected, contributing to improved GPON programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products;
• Visit field programmes on a regular basis to collect quality, videos, testimonies and write stories about IDPs in Camps and Host communities, for external and internal use
• Build a database of high-quality activity videos for GPON archives.
• Support programme staff in incorporating and integrating advocacy into all aspects of GPON’s programme activities, strategy and budgeting;
• Actively network with peers from other likeminded organizations involved in the response, and lead on development of joint field-based advocacy towards target audiences;
• Draft and deliver necessary reporting documents related to the advocacy, communication & media strategy/strategies, including Advocacy and media Key Messages;
• Participate in relevant fundraising opportunities for advocacy and contribute to the development of quality proposals, ensuring inclusion of advocacy activities on specific humanitarian and protection issues affecting displacement-affected where appropriate;
• Develop and maintain a media network with international and local journalists and advise on media engagement ;
• Write a summary of weekly activities
• Perform any other duties assigned by Supervisor.

Experience and skills required for the role.

• Degree or certificate in photography, film production, fine arts, visual communications, journalism, or other relevant fields. If no degree held, candidate should be able to demonstrate a wealth of relevant experience.
• A minimum of 3 years relevant professional experience in photography, Journalism, film production or visual communications.
• Fluency in English; fluency in Hausa and kanuri is desirable.
• Experience working in the field in Northeast Nigeria or other high security field locations.
• Knowledge of concepts in the field of resilience, humanitarian assistance