Communications Manager for Child Protection in Emergencies

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) are the key global benchmarks for ensuring quality and accountability in programming to support children’s protection and well-being throughout humanitarian response.

Where you come in:
The Communications Manager will provide full-time support to the inter-agency Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) Working Group (https://alliancecpha.org/en/CPMS) in promoting, advocating for and implementing the 2019 CPMS at the global, regional and national level. This fixed term role will focus on proactive implementation of a global communications strategy to disseminate and promote the CPMS and its key approaches, including leading social media promotion, overseeing website revisions, providing communications and advocacy support to country-level launch and roll-out activities, and driving forward global advocacy and events to promote the standards.

You will make an impact by:

- Manage the development and dissemination of CPMS print and social media communication activities, including developing new communication products and advocacy campaigns, supporting development and dissemination of the CPMS video series and other tools, and preparing/ updating communications toolkits and briefings for CPMS events and priorities
- Identify innovative ways for the CPMS working group to engage humanitarian actors and promote the CPMS and its approaches at the global, regional and country level
- Oversee all website design, content management and revision, visual branding and graphic design for the CPMS, working closely with the Alliance’s Knowledge Management Team.
- Support country-level implementation of the CPMS including advising on and developing communications products
- Provide additional communications and advocacy support to the CPMS Working Group members and inter-agency actors as requested
- Contribute to the development of technical briefs, CPMS tools, concept notes and proposals, especially through design of infographics and other visual materials
- Support the organization, technical set up and promotion of CPMS related events, including webinars, online events, and online and in-person conferences




Does this sound like you?

We expect you to have:

- At least 5 years of professional communications and advocacy work particularly for organizations or networks in humanitarian response or international development
- Solid understanding of social media best practices and tactics to disseminate and promote tools and resources to a diverse range of international, national and local actors
- Significant experience coordinating work amongst many actors and building positive inter-agency relationships.
- Proven history of collaborating with a diverse range of actors from regions and cultures and ability to adapt to their preferences and working styles
- Track record of delivering in a remote working environment with colleagues across multiple time zones, preferably including managing vendors and consultants
- Preferable experience supporting and working in partnership with national NGOs and civil society organizations
- Preferable proven basic video production and graphic design skills, including the ability to produce infographics, images and iconography, and short video case studies that help audiences
- Preferable commitment to humanitarian principles, understanding of child protection in humanitarian action as a sector, knowledge of the CPMS and other humanitarian standards
- Excellent communications and networking skills in both written and spoken English
- Excellent project management, organizational and time management skills, and the ability to drive forward multiple initiatives at once
- Ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and a willingness to learn new things
- Preferred: proficiency in basic graphic design software and website content management systems
- French, Arabic, or Spanish language skills are an asset




In this role, you will be expected to in close collaboration with colleagues, proactively take initiative and drive processes forward for timely delivery of results. Your ability to handle multiple parallel projects/processes and manage changing priorities with attention to detail and tight deadlines will make you successful in this role.

On a personal level you'll share our values (https://www.raddabarnen.se/globalassets/dokument/om-oss/riktlinjer-och-policys/what-do-our-values-mean-201117-eng.pdf). HERE (https://www.raddabarnen.se/globalassets/bilder/om-oss/ekonomi/our-offer_final-210224.pdf) is a summary of our terms and conditions.



Sound interesting?
This is a fixed term 6 months, with chance of extension, communications manager role supporting the inter-agency Child Protection Minimum Standards Working Group. Candidates based in Stockholm, Sweden are preferred, but remote-based candidates will be considered from any country where Save the Children has an office. Please contact the Project Lead Susanna Davies (mailto:Susanna.Davies@rb.se) should you have any questions about this role. We look forward to receiving your application no later than 7th July 2021.



At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of both children and adults in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our important policies such as the Child safeguarding policy, Policy protection from Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation (PSEA) and our ethical guidelines, more information about our policies and our guidelines can be found HERE. (https://www.raddabarnen.se/om-oss/vara-varderingar/policies-and-ethical-guidelines/)

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