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Senior Communications Manager

Islamabad

  • Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Location: Islamabad
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Communication and Public Information
    • Managerial positions
  • Closing Date: Closed

Requisition ID: req5803

Job Title: Senior Communications Manager

Sector: Communications

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Job Description

Background/IRC Summary:  The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.

Job Overview/Summary. The Senior Communications Manager will be leading on information and communications needs in line with the IRC’s SAP, Strategic and Programmatic requirements. Reporting to the Country Director, the Senior Communications Manager will work closely with country office program staff to collect, analyze and share information and communicate the IRC’s work to key stakeholders internally (e.g. HQ, Region, Country Office programs etc.) and externally (e.g. donors, beneficiaries, partners, relevant government institutions, wider public etc.).

Major Responsibilities: -

  • Develop and maintain internal information & communication policies and protocols in consultation with relevant focal points at HQ and region
  • Strategically position IRC into media in accordance with the approved policy and through close guidance of the supervisor
  • Ensure the IRC’s work to be positively reflected amongst wider public by capitalizing on the organized public & programmatic events, ceremonies, commemorations etc.
  • Ensure that all IEC material (within specific projects or for broader country program) is standardized as per the communication policy and protocols and is approved by the IEC Committee before printing and/or dissemination
  • Build the capacities of key program staff on documenting success stories, case studies, media write-ups, press releases etc.
  • Closely coordinate with Pakistan Reading Project and other key peer organizations in the country to identify and mature the mutual areas of collaboration and interests for joint initiatives and actions
  • Prepare press releases for all events organized by the IRC
  • Develop the IRC’s strategy to use social media as means to positive project IRC’s work in the country in consultation with and guidance from the IRC’s Regional Office and HQ
  • Regularly visit field to learn and understand the contexts and documenting pieces of work which can/should be shared widely
  • Support the programs by electronically documenting the IRC’s work (e.g. documentaries, videos etc.)
  • Support the programs in designing the awareness raising, advocacy, information, sensitization and/or other similar campaigns
  • Prepare, edit, and update fact sheets, case studies, newsletters and other public information documents
  • Assist in the research and writing of briefing and training materials
  • Respond to internal information requests from staff in international offices, partners and donors in consultation with respective program staff/supervisor
  • Prepare briefing packs for donor and other visitors to IRC response activities in the field, as necessary Track, research and analyze information on key areas of interest as per the programmatic requirements or assignment otherwise by the supervisor/country management
  • As needed, assist the Regional Media Manager with external communications materials (e.g. media stories, photographs, video footage for external news outlets and social media)
  • Advise the IRC’s Senior Management on innovative means and ways of communicating internally as they respond to staff’s mutual concerns, issues, announcements etc.
  • As needed, research and writing of briefing materials and advocacy papers in coordination with the Regional Advocacy Office

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  Country Director
Position directly supervises:  Communication officer

Job Requirements:

Education: Bachelor (Hons) or Masters in Social Sciences, Mass Communication or any other relevant discipline

Work Experience: Minimum 5 years of an overall relevant communications experience with 3-year work experience with any INGO in a similar role

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills in English and Urdu
  • Detail-oriented with good multi-tasking abilities to meet multiple deadlines
  • Able to work well both within a team and independently, in a challenging and fast-moving multicultural environment
  • Strong understanding of Pakistan’s context and difficult-to-work environments
  • Strong team player with proven ability to step-up and lead as and when needed and vice versa
  • Demonstrated ability to write and edit articles and reports under deadline pressure
  • Strong interpersonal, cross-cultural & diplomacy skills

Language Skills: -   Fluent in local languages along with good Urdu and English speaking/writing skills

Working Environment:  Works well in and promotes teamwork, flexible and able to handle pressure well.                           

The IRC Core Values and Commitments;

  • The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
  • IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

oLevel of interaction with children: More frequent direct contact with children

  • IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
  • IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.
Women, minorities, persons with disability (PWD) and transgender candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

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