Deadline of this Job: 09 January 2023
Role Specification: Communications Director
Location: Flexible, with a strong preference for Kenya or Uganda; open to candidates elsewhere who can overlap with African business hours zones (e.g., Europe or US East Coast).
About Living Goods
Living Goods is a global organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that’s dedicated to ensuring women and children don’t die from easily preventable and treatable diseases by providing high-quality, life-saving health care at their doorsteps.
For the past 15 years, Living Goods has partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to be successful and reach their full potential. They support networks of trusted CHWs to transform health outcomes for women and children and work to advance system change by partnering with governments to sustainably lead. Living Goods also focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. They focus on treating some of the deadliest but most easily treatable deadly childhood diseases, supporting women of reproductive age with pregnancy support and family planning, and ensuring every child is fully vaccinated. With operations in Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso (and a small support office of 15 people in the US), in 2021 Living Goods supported more than 11,000 CHWs to assist 8.5 million people.
About the Role:
Living Goods is looking for its next Director of Communications who will lead the planning and execution of its global communication strategy and ensure that it is well synchronized with both organizational and country-level goals, as well as a wide array of departmental priorities. The Director of Communications must be a proactive and hands-on strategic leader who will work across key teams at Living Goods to strengthen the organizational brand and external positioning, enhance the visibility of programs and key learnings, ensure consistency of messaging in an ever-evolving context, and help maximize engagement and thought leadership both internally and externally around the importance of Living Good’s approaches to advancing community health.
In strong partnership with the global and country-level Advocacy, Business Development, and Programs teams, the Communications Director will use a wide variety of communications tools and tactics to help the organization make the case for prioritizing and investing in community health and primary health care, elevating Living Goods’ thought leaders (and preparing them for the public eye), and inspiring and influence funders. In this role, the incumbent will grow Living Goods’ reputation as a partner of choice in supporting African governments to invest in and professionalize their community health workers—with the digital tools, training, medicines, supervision, and compensation they need—and to strengthen the broader systems in which they work. This position will report to and work closely with the US Executive Director, sit on our Global Management Team, and will be a key collaborator and advisor to our senior management team and external partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy Development and Implementation:
• Develop and execute a communications strategy and an annual plan that ensures the power of communications can maximize the success of Living Good’s work and enable the amplification of the organization’s impact in their countries of operation (Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso), regionally and globally.
• Proactively propose and develop communication plans, in line with Living Good’s Vision and Strategic Plan, to leverage organizational strengths, identify opportunities in the field that Living Goods is well positioned to pursue, and bring new ideas to the organization.
• Develops and implement external communication strategies that expand brand awareness and elevate our leaders.
Team Leadership:
Other Vacancies
Role Specification: Communications Director
Location: Flexible, with a strong preference for Kenya or Uganda; open to candidates elsewhere who can overlap with African business hours zones (e.g., Europe or US East Coast).
About Living Goods
Living Goods is a global organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that’s dedicated to ensuring women and children don’t die from easily preventable and treatable diseases by providing high-quality, life-saving health care at their doorsteps.
For the past 15 years, Living Goods has partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to be successful and reach their full potential. They support networks of trusted CHWs to transform health outcomes for women and children and work to advance system change by partnering with governments to sustainably lead. Living Goods also focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. They focus on treating some of the deadliest but most easily treatable deadly childhood diseases, supporting women of reproductive age with pregnancy support and family planning, and ensuring every child is fully vaccinated. With operations in Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso (and a small support office of 15 people in the US), in 2021 Living Goods supported more than 11,000 CHWs to assist 8.5 million people.
About the Role:
Living Goods is looking for its next Director of Communications who will lead the planning and execution of its global communication strategy and ensure that it is well synchronized with both organizational and country-level goals, as well as a wide array of departmental priorities. The Director of Communications must be a proactive and hands-on strategic leader who will work across key teams at Living Goods to strengthen the organizational brand and external positioning, enhance the visibility of programs and key learnings, ensure consistency of messaging in an ever-evolving context, and help maximize engagement and thought leadership both internally and externally around the importance of Living Good’s approaches to advancing community health.
In strong partnership with the global and country-level Advocacy, Business Development, and Programs teams, the Communications Director will use a wide variety of communications tools and tactics to help the organization make the case for prioritizing and investing in community health and primary health care, elevating Living Goods’ thought leaders (and preparing them for the public eye), and inspiring and influence funders. In this role, the incumbent will grow Living Goods’ reputation as a partner of choice in supporting African governments to invest in and professionalize their community health workers—with the digital tools, training, medicines, supervision, and compensation they need—and to strengthen the broader systems in which they work. This position will report to and work closely with the US Executive Director, sit on our Global Management Team, and will be a key collaborator and advisor to our senior management team and external partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy Development and Implementation:
• Develop and execute a communications strategy and an annual plan that ensures the power of communications can maximize the success of Living Good’s work and enable the amplification of the organization’s impact in their countries of operation (Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso), regionally and globally.
• Proactively propose and develop communication plans, in line with Living Good’s Vision and Strategic Plan, to leverage organizational strengths, identify opportunities in the field that Living Goods is well positioned to pursue, and bring new ideas to the organization.
• Develops and implement external communication strategies that expand brand awareness and elevate our leaders.
Team Leadership:
Other Vacancies
Deadline of this Job: 16 January 2023
Deadline of this Job: 16 January 2023