Jobs at Seefar

Job Description

The following are the primary responsibilities of the role.

Deliver: Project and Mission Implementation

• Conduct individual consultations, either face-to-face or over the phone, with the project’s target audience members to raise awareness about migration issues.
• Organise and lead events to raise awareness of migration issues within target communities.
• Deliver regular performance reports, and make yourself reachable during your working hours to your Supervisor and the Project Manager.
• Gather insights from the field and regularly share them with your supervisor.
• Research and update the project database with up to date information on local alternatives (job opportunities, training opportunities, etc.);
• Liaise and build relationships with local stakeholders and the broader community of interest when requested, and represent Seefar as required.
• Attend and participate in regular team meetings with other team members.

Direct: Global Management

• Represent and demonstrate the Enterprise’s values.

Before you start, confirm you meet these minimum requirements:

• Based in Lagos or Benin City;
• Fluency in English and a local language (Yoruba or Edo);
• At least four years of community-based work experience in Nigeria;
• Computer literacy and access to the Internet.

Selection Criteria

We are looking for someone with:

• At least four years of community-based work experience in Nigeria;
• Based in Lagos or Benin City;
• Strong ties with the local community and institutions;
• An excellent reputation in the local community;
• Fluency in English and a local language (Yoruba or Edo)
• Excellent communication skills including being comfortable talking and delivering information face to face and over the phone;
• Excellent knowledge and use of social media and other communication channels such as WhatsApp;
• Experience working with monitoring & evaluation tools such as Appsheet or KOBO;
• Computer literacy and access to a stable Internet connection;
• Strong knowledge of migration and trafficking issues;
• Experience in psychosocial counselling and/or youth mentoring is highly desirable;
• Interpersonal skills and an ability to coordinate with teams and local stakeholders;
• Experience working with vulnerable groups, and a thorough understanding of confidentiality.

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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.