Social Media Campaign Specialist at the North East Regional Initiative (NERI) Nigeria

Location of Position: Abuja (and Maiduguri), Nigeria

Duration: 8 Months

Position Start Date: Immediately

Position Summary:

NERI seeks a Social Media Campaigns Specialist to support selected Fellows to establish vibrant social media presence and carry out not less than two (2) group or individual social media campaign efforts. The Social Media Campaign Specialist will have the responsibility for providing guidance on issues, topics, campaign schedule, methodology, advisories and overall management of individual and group campaigns of fellows across North East Intellectual Entrepreneurial Fellowship (NEIEF) program thematic focus.

Reporting & Supervision:

This position reports to the Program Development Officer in Abuja.

Primary Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Coordinate activities of Fellows and NEIEF program activities through multiple social media platforms and channels to reach diverse audiences.
• Support Fellows with development of individual and group social media campaigns.
• Help manage online presence through social media efforts; including the preparation of a monthly social media follower and engagement dashboard for each fellow.
• Collaborate with NERI reporting team, providing additional narrative concepts and creative input towards development of success stories, reporting and related projects, as reasonably requested.

Deliverables:

• Monthly social media reports on activities of NEIEF fellows.
• Create a Social Media Strategy for the NEIEF program i.e. identifying audience, selection of appropriate social media platforms based on NEIEF goals.
• Define appropriate metrics for data collection; content management guidelines and adoption of a follower policy to maintain security and privacy of all communications.

Qualifications:

• A degree in communications, mass communications or related fields with proven work experience and presence in major social networks will give an added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience up and managing youth social networks in post-conflict settings.
• Must have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of social media platforms, their respective participants and how each platform can be deployed in different scenarios.
• Demonstrable experience in actual execution of social media activities including evidence of personal Blogs/tweets, and management of third party social media platforms.
• Experience sourcing and managing content development and publishing.
• Excellent communications skills and time management abilities.
• Fluency in English required.