Girl Effect Social Media & Communications Specialist Individual Consultant Jobs in Nigeria





Girl Effect Social Media & Communications Specialist Individual Consultant Jobs in Nigeria; Girl Effect Nigeria is looking for an experienced Social Media and Communications Specialist to partner with our creative and marketing team in managing our social media channels and develop/execute communication strategies to enhance internal and external communications. This role will encompass strategising and uploading content in various formats, while driving engagement across all our platforms for diverse campaigns.


Roles & Responsibilities:

Deploy social media strategies: Work with a copywriter and marketing team to develop and deploy social media strategies that will grow engagement and visibility for our brands. When necessary, adapt or put together basic copy or designs based on pre-existing templates.

Rollout Calendar: You will work closely with the create team to understand production timelines and briefs to maintain an active, agile rollout calendar for (Oya & Saabi) social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube. Content should be planned and scheduled for upload a minimum of one week in advance.

Hygiene Management: Working closely with the Create team, you would regularly manage the hygiene on social media channels, ensuring sustainable grid design and identifying and implementing other best practices.

Support with Content Ideation: You will be expected to stay updated about viral trends to feed into and suggest creative ideas for posts relevant to our brand & pages across different formats - stories, reels, memes, and other established content buckets.

Uploading & Scheduling: You will upload and/or schedule posts as well as post regular stories based on the calendar you have created with regular approval from the Create Lead, who will be in charge of the work you do

Influencer Management: Assist marketing team during campaign execution with influencer, ensuring tags are in place, go-live time is adhered to, and all copy/content is approved.

Strategic Communications: Work with the Programs and Communications team to develop and implement strategies that support the country's programs and spotlights its achievements through social media, newsletters, blog posts, press releases and more.

Audience Engagement: Occasionally you will need to support the team with tasks related to audience engagement activities like basic content creation, curation for IG Lives, support in Live Sessions, AMAs on our channels, among other things.

Moderation: You will be required to diligently moderate comments, messages, and requests from our users to ensure that all our social media channels are safe and respectful spaces. You will work with our safeguarding team to flag and resolve any disclosures of abuse or harm from our users; suggest ways our safeguarding processes could be streamlined and improved, work with the content, gender and safeguarding team to manage and evolve a set of default or ‘canned’ responses to some of the most common questions we receive from girls on social, making sure that these responses are translated correctly etc. This is a critical part of the work because our users can sometimes be in vulnerable and risky situations, and the highest standards of ethics and responsibility have to be maintained on our end. You will also be
required to maintain a moderation log documenting and tracking sensitive disclosures from our users.

Tracking & Reporting Metrics: Develop weekly and monthly reports, tracking social media metrics across platforms for each post in the template that will be provided to you. You will be expected to work with the Marketing Lead to analyze these metrics and trends on a fortnightly basis and present your findings of best performing assets to the create team, based on which new content will be planned.

Who You Are:

[Skills and expertise:


  • Minimum 4 years experience of relevant digital marketing with accounts that have had national or multi-regional scale and complex audience sets

  • Graduate-level proficiency in marketing, branding, design or creative writing

  • Comfortable with numbers, digital data sets like spreadsheets

  • Degree or relevant experience in digital marketing, business, and project management.

  • Strong understanding of digital marketing and social media.

  • Interest in working in a developing country context.

  • Strong communication, writing, coordination and organizational skills.

  • High attention to detail and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.

  • Ability to remain flexible and find solutions to challenges.

  • Positive, energetic, can-do attitude.

  • Ability to work collaboratively in multicultural teams.

  • Commitment to realizing the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect

  • Open to learning, for example, learning how to use RapidPro or capturing learning to enhance digital products and pages

    Attitudes we are looking for:

  • Comfortable with complex organizational structures and multiple stakeholders

  • Comfortable with shared decision-making

  • Ability to be flexible within a fast-paced, changing environment.

  • Passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of young women and girls.

  • A ‘do-er thinker’

  • Highly empathetic and context-sensitive - able to balance conflicting needs and priorities decisively
    Mission-driven and cares about making a difference in the lives of young people and vulnerable sections of society

  • Most importantly, we need you to ensure that you have a lens that is youth-friendly & fun, body and sex-positive, gender inclusive, and a rights-based approach towards girls and young women.


    How to Apply

    Please submit proposals, as described above, to suppliers@girleffect.org Please clearly mark your email with the subject Social Media Specialist-Nigeria.

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