Surge Africa design and implement innovative measures that improve approaches to climate adaptation through policy, media and resilient development. We acknowledge that climate change is multifaceted and must be tackled by anchoring strategies using a multi-layered approach towards various levels of our societies, which is why our programs are tailored to strategically advance climate resilience by influencing and advancing an inclusive decentralization of people, energy, economic and landscape governance. Surge Africa has a regional presence in Africa with a footprint of operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa through numerous programs and initiatives. Through our media work, we saw it necessary to bridge regional gaps, by initiating programs in Latin America to promote our shared values for justice and equality in climate justice advocacy.
Job Description
- We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and creative Communications Officer to join our team. As a communications officer, you will be responsible for developing and implementing our Communications strategy to robustly shape the reach of our activities & social impact.
Communications Officer duties and responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategic communication plans, managing both internal and external communication channels
- Coordinate media relations, oversee social media, and act as a spokesperson for the organization
- Define most important communications KPIs, and be on trend in using multiple media touch points to communicate our programs and initiatives.
- Develop, design, proofread and edit reports, newsletters, blog posts, press releases and other statements
- Be creative and cross-cutting in defining communications and media content for project, be open to adapting very quickly to new creative patterns of delivering comms work
- Develop and maintain relationship with diverse stakeholders working in the media and communications space
- Support development and dissemination of public and online campaigns
- Measure the success of every communication and social media campaign.
- Collaborate with related team/personnel to design tailored content for programs and event, and ensure ontent is informative and appealing
- Monitor SEO, user engagement and suggest content optimization.
Communcations Officer requirements and qualifications
- 3 years or more of experience as a communications officer, with reasonable knowledge of developing comms strategies and comms campaigns
- First-hand experience developing or monitoring public or virtual communications campaigns
- Skillful in using comms strategy and media for brand awareness and impressions.
- A good understanding of the climate landscape
- Agile and multi-tasker, a creative thinker with excellent eyes for details
- A curator and critical thinker with keen interest in delivering narratives that attune to audience interest
- Intermediate picture and video editing skills
- Excellent project and time-management skills.
- Great interpersonal, presentation and digital communication skills.
- Must know how to edit/create content using:
- Canva
- Adobe Express (Spark) or others
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