Media Officer at Seefar

As a Media Officer your main tasks will be to manage the project’s social media pages, as well as liaise with local media outlets to promote the projects’ messaging. You will provide support for the development of online engagement strategies, creative products, PR and media strategies, copywriting, and branding efforts. Your attention to detail, creative talent, and ability to deliver will be highly valued. To be successful in this role you must be empathetic and influential. You must also have strong written and interpersonal skills.

Selection Criteria

We are looking for someone with:

• At least 3 years of experience working in communications;
• Based in Lagos or Benin City, Nigeria
• Strong experience working on developing media content, particularly social media content;
• Strong photography skills;
• Digital campaign and marketing experience (creating, implementing, and extracting the campaign’s metrics in order to be able to optimise the results);
• Effective prioritisation and organisational skills, with an ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision;
• Outstanding attention to detail;
• Interpersonal skills and an ability to coordinate with teams and local media outlets;
• Preferably thematic expertise in migration and trafficking issues;
• Fluency in English and one other local language (Yoruba or Edo) is compulsory.
• Experience working with vulnerable groups, and a thorough understanding of confidentiality;
• Access to a stable Internet connection;

Job Description

The following are the primary responsibilities of the role.

Deliver: Project and Mission Implementation

• Implementing online engagement strategies, PR, and media strategies;
• Developing creative communications content to be published;
• Overseeing and developing content for online platforms;
• Running campaigns on social media platforms using Ads Manager for META (like dynamic ads and carousel ads);
• Testing social media content for successful scale-up of most impactful adverts;
• Leading on digital analytics and adapting content based on digital insights;
• Liaising with local media outlets; speaking to the press and participating in radio and TV shows;
• Attending and documenting events (interviewing participants, photography, etc);
• Suggesting and trialling new ideas to catch the targeted audience’s attention;
• Providing media capacity-building support to project partners;
• Contributing to donor reporting;
• Coordinating with the HQ project management team throughout the implementation of the project;
• Regularly reporting on the process of your work to your supervisor;
• Other communications-related tasks as required.