Title: Communications Manager (EMP Communications Lead)
Location: Addis Ababa
Employment Category: F1
Reporting To: Chief of Party (COP), Ethiopia Migration Programme (EMP)
Direct Reports: Migration Information Coordinator, Information Officers (7)
Start of Contract & Duration: 23 Months
Posting date: April 16, 2021
INTRODUCTION
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), an international non-governmental organization (NGO), has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC promotes and supports solutions to the problems faced by refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and migrants. The organization has offices across the region, and has been operational in Ethiopia since 2009. With funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, DRC is currently implementing a range of activities across Ethiopia and Djibouti, including WASH and shelter provision, child and youth protection, gender based violence response, awareness-raising of migration risks, protection monitoring of migration routes, and livelihoods support for returning migrants or those at-risk of migration.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is implementing the Ethiopia Migration Programme (EMP), a UK-funded programme to make migration through and from Ethiopia safer. The programme has an operational footprint in Tigray, Amhara and Addis Ababa and involves several subcontractors with core responsibility for implementation of EMP objectives.
OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
The Manager (Communications Lead) will work closely with the EMP Chief of Party (COP), Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Programme Director, partner organisations and other EMP staff to design and deliver a high-quality Communications Strategy. The Communications Lead will also be accountable for the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of all activities under EMP’s Communications and Information workstream. The Communications Lead will manage implementation of communications activities in the field through effective coordination with EMP Field Project Managers (PMs), and will oversee the implementation of national-level communications outputs by external partners. The Communications Lead will be accountable for meeting EMP targets under Outcome 2.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy and Design
Branding
Activity Implementation
Reporting and Other
Experience and Technical Competencies: (include years of experience)
Education (include certificates, licenses etc.):
Languages: (indicate fluency level)
All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies: