About the role
Christian Aid is looking for a Stories & Content Advisor to help gather and produce high-quality stories, content and multimedia materials that tell the story of the impact of Christian Aid’s work around the world.
The postholder will maintain up-to-date information of Christian Aid’s programmes globally and will identify potential cases studies within our programmatic work from which to gather compelling stories to tell through our fundraising and supporter engagement communications.
The postholder will manage content-gathering operations in a variety of locations, remotely or directly, to efficiently provide colleagues across the organisation with the stories and content that will facilitate them in achieving their own objectives in areas such as fundraising, media, campaigning and advocacy.
This role involves a high degree of planning, communicating and stakeholder management in order to maintain up-to-date knowledge of our programmatic actions and the content-gathering opportunities they offer while also maintaining up-to-date knowledge of stakeholder’ content requirements.
The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that content gathered is well documented in terms of captions, contextual information and metadata and that digital content, including photography and video, is correctly stored, tagged and shared across the organisation using the Digital Asset Management platform.
This role will also involve managing and supporting content-gathering carried out by country staff, partners and local freelancers. This function includes ensuring those people comply with Christian Aid’s safeguarding and consent policies, and that content gathered is done in a safe, ethical and compliant manner and delivers high-quality content that answers the organisation’s needs.
This role can be based in the Christian Aid offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi, DR Congo, South Sudan, Sierra Leone or Nigeria
About you
You will be an experienced communications professional with a strong track record of managing content-gathering both directly and remotely within the context of international development programmes, especially in the countries where Christian Aid operates.
You are educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally with qualifications in communications, marketing, journalism or development (or equivalent experience obtained at a senior level).
You have excellent organisational and influencing skills and experience of managing complex stakeholder relationships, including remotely and internationally, as well as managing content-gathering schedules and delivery.
You have proven experience in understanding what makes a good story and technical experience in creating a good story, and ideally have experience in gathering content in the field, including gathering well-documented photography and video content
You have experience in directing and guiding others remotely to gather content according to an agreed brief.
Further information
This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based. Please ensure you address the competency requirements in your application. These can be found in the attached global competency model.
Salary & Currency: The Salary and Currency for this role will be aligned to Band D-Mid of the Country Payscale where the role will be based and will be offered as appropriate based on the figures below:
SN COUNTRY D MID Currency 1 Burundi 63,356,230 BIF 2 DRC 32,561 Dollar 3 Nigeria 9,871,478 Naira 4 Kenya 3,951,594 KES 5 South Sudan 37,178 Dollar 6 Sierra Leone 21,705 GBP 7 Ethiopia 17,851 Dollar
We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:3 . Please tell us about a time when you were able to take action to end or reduce the inefficient use of resources
Apply via :
jobs.christianaid.org.uk
