Africa Francophone Communications Coordinator
11 hours ago
**350.org is looking for a brilliant communications professional with the skills to develop, plan, and implement communication strategies for our regional campaigns in Francophone countries across Africa.**
**About 350.org**
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.
**About the **Africa Francophone Communications Coordinator**
The Africa Francophone Communications Coordinator will be responsible for offering traditional communications support to regional Francophone campaigns in Africa. This includes developing communications materials, implementing strategic communications plans for specific campaigns and events, identifying media opportunities and engaging with issues relevant for 350.org's work.
The Africa Francophone Communications Coordinator is someone with demonstrated experience in developing, planning, implementing effective communications plans and strategies campaigns to get results, while collaborating across departments and regions.
The role reports to the Africa Communications Manager and is part of the Africa Regional Team.
**Responsibilities**
- Develop and Iimplement communications plans and strategies for Francophone campaigns that feed into regional plans
- Develop traditional communications materials, including press releases, opinion pieces and media packs with the support of the comms manager and advise on the development of multimedia and social media materials when appropriate
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with media practitioners, pitch stories, coordinate responses to media requests and growing existing media contact lists
- Monitor media to identify digital and media opportunities to engage with issues relevant for 350.org's work
- Monitor, track, measure and document media and communications deliverables
- Coordinate with photographers and videographers to produce high-quality multimedia for campaigns and actions
- Support and encourage the media work of 350.org network, national campaigners, and local groups in the region and empower them through communications and media trainings
- Collaborate across departments and regions to develop alignment between 350.org's global, regional, and cross-regional communications.
- Public Engagement: support and represent 350.org's overall mission in the media and in public venues or other networks to strengthen climate change communications
**Competencies**
**Required Qualifications**
- **Job knowledge**: At least three (3) years of experience in communications, advocacy for regional campaigns or media
- Fluency in** English** and **French**:
- Strong aptitude for communication, facilitation and training skills to help guide, inspire, consult and coordinate with remote and diverse teams
- **Communication**: an excellent communicator with first class writing skills in French and English
- **Public engagement**:Understanding of the regional media landscape, in particular key French language publications and outlets for environmental and climate change news
- **Ability to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in day to day work**:Professional experience in an international and/or multi-cultural environment and comfort working remotely with colleagues in multiple time-zones via skype, conference calls, and other online tools
- Excellent teamwork, problem solving, program planning and management skills
- Keen attention to detail, flexible and proactive mindset
**Desired **_(but not required)_** Qualifications**
- Minimum 3 years of experience working in communications for a nongovernmental organization, nonprofit or campaign.
- A people-person who can build relationships with the 350.org staff, partners and media practitioners
- Network of existing contacts and ability to strengthen campaigning relationships with organisations and researchers advocating for climate solutions/ just transition to renewable energy
- Experience developing and running communications trainings for groups of staff, local groups and volunteers
- Able to travel internationally on occasion
- Proficiency in Meltwater and Salesforce
- Experience with Google Suite, Slack, and Zoom or similar systems
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working remotely, both independently & on teams, and who is highly responsive, able to lead initiatives while also taking direction from others.
**Location**: Remote within Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa
**Position Type**:Full Time
**Compensation: Level**:XOF 15,008,755, KES 3,546,185, NGN 9,329,300,
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