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TITLE: Roving Communications Manager – Child Refugee Crisis
TEAM/PROGRAMME: MEE Regional Advocacy, Media and
Comms Team
LOCATION: Amman, with extensive travel in the Balkans and other areas where refugees are transiting
CONTRACT LENGTH: 6 months GRADE: TBC
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Roving Communications Manager will spend the majority of their time deployed to countries in the
MEE region where refugees are transiting on their way to Europe. The role of the deployee is to deliver vital communication products that enable excellent media and fundraising activities for Members and across Save the Children international. The Communications Manager will prepare outputs such as case studies, blogs and key messages; help to build a media profile and gather powerful communications materials, ensuring that
Save the Children is able to provide compelling products about the situation for refugee children who are migrating to Europe. In many circumstances, the post-holder will also be expected to mentor and/or capacity build existing country programme staff. In this role, the post holder should be able to move projects forward with limited in-country support.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: MEE Regional Advocacy, Media and Communications Director
No of direct reports: No direct reports
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Communications and Media Support
 Produce accurate, clear and consistent communication outputs relating to the child refugee crisis and
Save the Children’s response – including case studies, key messages, Q&A’s and factsheets.
 Collaborate with advocacy and policy colleagues to ensure core messaging is consistent with advocacy and policy strategies within the response and opportunities are explored to promote these strategies
 Produce photos to a high standard, to accompany compelling case studies
 Spokesperson on behalf of the child refugee response – across broadcast outlets
 Facilitate media activities such as requests for quotes or interviews (ensuring spokespeople are adequately briefed) or journalists visits to programmes. Identify opportunities within our response activities or the external environment for media activities.
 Build the capacity of country programmes through delivering training of in-country communications or programme on communication skills (including media training), mentoring communications staff throughout a response and recruiting/inducting new resources in-country as required.
 Backstopping and gap filling in other responses across the MEE region as needed.
 Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff
General
 Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
 Help be responsible for the security of all staff. Ensure that the security, health and well being of staff are ensured and staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect Save the Children’s principles of equity and fairness.
 To perform such other responsibilities as agreed with your line management.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
 Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the children values
 Holds staff and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities with strong support for
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S AVE T HE C HILDREN
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ROLE PROFILE using their knowledge and creativity to deliver according to communities/beneficiaries’ needs, and also providing the necessary guidance/help improve performance, including appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
 Set ambitious goals for self /team; be creative and proactive about professional development; encourage others to do the same
 Widely share a personal vision for Save the Children Iraq programs in line with Save the Children vision; engage and motivate others
 Be future orientated and think strategically
Collaboration:
 Build and maintain effective relationships with team, colleagues and external partners and supporters
 Value diversity as a source of strength
 Be approachable, be a good listener, be easy to talk to
Creativity:
 Develop and encourage new and innovative ideas, especially solutions to problems/challenges
 Be willing to take disciplined risks for children’s, youth’s and women’s wellbeing
Integrity
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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
 Significant experience of working overseas in communications for humanitarian programmes
 Masters Education in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
 Experience of leading communication activities in a challenging environment
 Ability to deliver high-quality photographs and case studies from affected communities
 Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of different audiences including donors, journalists and the ‘general public’.
 Experience of effective spokespersoning across a range of media
 Excellent relationship building skills in order to work for limited periods within programmes under pressure of running emergency responses
 An initiative-taking, proactive, inspiring attitude with the ability to manage and prioritise an unpredictable workload and solve problems quickly with limited support
 Experience of delivering training, presentations and other capacity building activities to varied audiences, ideally within a country programme.
 Excellent IT skills, especially in Microsoft Word
 Excellent understanding of ‘head office’ communication and information needs across fundraising, media and campaigning activities.
 Strong influencing skills
 The ability to speak and work in Arabic
 Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
 The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
 Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the children. In particular, a good understanding of the
Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
Desirable
 Experience of creating media products such as press releases
 Experience with filming or other multimedia capacity
 Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
Date of Issue: September 2015 Author: Misty Buswell
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