Senior Communications Specialist
ChildFund Uganda
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Senior
About the role
- Manage content, ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard, and collaborate with others to create work that is ethical, authentic, informative, and elevates children’s voices
- Develop written and visual communications that engage and motivate ChildFund audiences
- Create marketing communications in a plain English, reader-friendly style, and simplify complex information to ensure ChildFund’s communications are impactful
- Create digital communications that generate engagement and ensure ChildFund’s message stands out, including infographics and videos
- Research, write and edit reports, publications and other forms of content that are factual and reliable
- Edit technical work and commission third parties when required (including writers, designers and printers)
- Ensure all communications comply with relevant brand guidelines, organisational policies, and sector standards
- Ensure you are a trusted source of advice to senior staff on both internal and public-facing communications
Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g., Communications)
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in communications roles
- Experience as a journalist or writer, with well-developed skills in research, interviewing, and creating content for a wide variety of audiences
- Experience developing public-facing content across online and offline channels
- Understanding of the international development sector, with a strong interest in child rights, human rights issues, and current affairs
- Extensive experience in graphic design, video editing, and digital publishing
- Understanding of the Australian not-for-profit landscape, and associated communications compliance requirements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
content managementwritten communicationvisual communicationmarketing communicationdigital communicationresearcheditinggraphic designvideo editingdigital publishing
Soft skills
collaborationproject managementadvice givingaudience engagementsimplifying complex information
Certifications
tertiary qualifications in Communications