Vacancy title:
Communications Officer

Jobs at:
Pact Inc. Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
Open Until Filled

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

JOB DETAILS:
Pact Inc. Kenya Office is implementing two projects, RASMI and SEEK funded by the European Union Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF).

The Regional Approaches for Sustainable Conflict Management and Integration (RASMI) programme is part of the larger EUTF’s investments in the cross-border areas of the Horn of Africa. The project adopts a conflict systems-based approach to promote peace building, conflict management, and conflict resolution capacity at the community and cross-border levels. RASMI consortia consists of local partners, Inter-Africa Group (Ethiopia) Mandera Women for Peace and Development (Kenya) NEPED (Kenya) and IDF (Somalia).

The RASMI project has three main objectives:

• to increase social capital and cohesion;
• to strengthen peace structures and;
• to influence other institutions to be conflict sensitive.

The Selam Ekisil (SEEK) project adopts a conflict systems-based approach to address the multiple causes of conflict in cross border areas and to promote peace building, conflict management, and conflict resolution capacity at the community and cross-border levels.

The SEEK project has three main objectives:

• strengthen peace structures; 
• increase social capital and cohesion and;
• to provide conflict sensitivity support to investment and development actors.

Job Purpose
This Communications Officer role provides an excellent opportunity to work on both strategic and operational aspects of communications for cross-border peacebuilding programs. At the same time, the role will involve bolstering the capacity of other RASMI and SEEK partners with a view to enabling clearer, more coherent messaging across the two EUTF programs. This is a 1-year role with the possibility of extension.

Based in Nairobi and reporting to the Regional Communications Coordinator, the successful candidate will be challenged to think strategically, tactically to build and implement effective communications platforms for EUTF programs (RASMI and SEEK) being implemented by Pact Kenya.

Communications Officer Job Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering a comprehensive but practical communication platforms for SEEK and RASMI. This will involve working with the Regional Communications Coordinator to develop and implement communications strategies, brand and visibility guidelines; key partnership liaison strategies, audience maps; targeted contact databases; key messages; digital and non-digital channels; programme and project workplans; editing and packaging reports, planning and execution tools; communication templates; monitoring and evaluation of communication activities; capacity building for RASMI and SEEK staff and partners; workshop planning and delivery, events planning and management, developing and implementing communications policies and procedures.
• Supporting the design and delivery of communications platforms for RASMI and SEEK partners.This will involve the provision of communications guidance and capacity building to interested partners. With the guidance from the Regional Communications Co-ordinator, the Communications Officer will help partners to apply this guidance to their contexts. This will require travel.
• Fostering a vibrant Working Group for communications. Pact Kenya intends set up a community of practice for communications which will entail working with SEEK and RASMI partners. With guidance from the Regional Communications Coordinator, the Communications Officer will galvanize the Working Group by injecting energy and ideas, and formalizing its ongoing modus operandi. The purpose is to share knowledge, strengthen the RASMI and SEEK communications community and provide a platform for communications training and mentoring.
• Developing and managing innovative tools and channels to capture and share RASMI and SEEK ideas and impact. This role will provide scope to strengthen existing and create new ways to measure and communicate the impact of RASMI and SEEK projects. Working closely with the Regional Communications Coordinator and the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL) team, these new methods might include: case study and research projects, innovative event hosting, visual presentation and storytelling, video diaries, human interest stories, infographics, podcast and blogs.

Qualifications for the

• Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism or related fields from a reputable university.
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience.
• Excellent in analytical writing
• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Audition.
• Familiarity with social media platforms
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strategy formulation and execution skills
• Passionate and committed change agent

Job application procedure
Interested applicants fulfilling the requirements are invited to send their application letter and CV to kenyahr@pactworld.org indicating “Communications Officer” on the subject line.