World Vision Communications Manager Jobs in Kenya

World Vision Communications Manager Jobs in Kenya

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

We are looking for an inquisitive and well organised person with an acute sense of news and storytelling who has a passion for internal communications and staff engagement.

The position holder will have global reach, partnering with our staff to manage and produce communications for them in 90+ offices across the world. We are looking for someone who can be creative in helping to inspire a global workforce, and who can work with others to communicate their stories as well as communicate World Vision’s work in ways that staff find appealing.

Key Responsibilities:

Enable and lead a multi-country internal communications approach to help staff be informed of and engaged with what is happening in the global organisation.

Deliver effective internal communications channels and apply learning to future plans.

Ensure that global communications reaching staff is audience-centric, respectful of their time and workload, engaging and purposeful.

Establish mechanisms to help staff make quick informed decisions as to which global news and stories are relevant or interesting to them.

Produce, curate, and edit high quality content, and lead global internal editorial processes.

Use data, facts, information, and personal accounts to create storytelling and news for a variety of global internal audiences, often repurposing, following up on, and editing content to show impact, and emotional or human connection.

Develop new communications styles to enhance internal understanding of organisational strategic priorities.

Interpret and translate complex organisational ideas into simple and engaging language to help staff understand and champion work that they may be less familiar with.

Develop and grow relationships of influence and partnerships with communicators in all World Vision offices to ensure representation and include their voices in internal communications channels.

Coach content providers, of all seniority levels, on audience-centric content

creation and storytelling and uphold quality storytelling for the organisation.

Partner with other team members to communicate global organisational story projects to staff and promote engagement and participation.

Manage, motivate, and ensure a safe, supportive, and positive working environment for one direct report.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Minimum of 7 years working in written communications and managing communications channels.

Excellent writing and editing skills, with a commitment to storytelling quality.

Ability to write the same story in different ways, depending on channel, purpose, and audience.

Ability to emotionally move and engage a variety of audiences.

Demonstrates creative ways of storytelling.

Diplomatic and assertive, able to influence staff at all levels.

Translates technical and policy information into clear and concise content; Able to synthesise information.

Audience oriented.

Interviewing skills and ability to create safe spaces for dialogue.

Appreciates multi-cultural environments, demonstrates cultural sensitivities, and shows a commitment to diversity.

Committed to child and adult safeguarding and protection.

Able to priortise according to strategic need.

Accountable for on-time delivery and is deadline oriented.

Self-starter and able to initiate and progress work without immediate supervision.

Collaborative and a team player.

Strategic and critical thinker, and moves easily between high-level concepts and detailed features.

Advanced degree in Writing, Communications, Journalism, Change Management or Organisational Development.

Ability to travel up to 5%

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Spanish or/ and French are desirable.

Experience working through or managing others.

Facilitation skills.

Not driven by pleasing people.

Interpersonal skills, with an ability to understand nuances in people’s behaviour, communications, and actions.

How to Apply

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