CAMPAIGNS & MEDIA MANAGER

‘An experienced, and collaborative communications professional with experience of crisis comms, international media management and global campaign work’ 

About us 

War Child: the charity for children affected by war. We are a specialist charity for children in conflict, delivering high-impact programs that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic, Colombia, Ukraine, Uganda, Burundi, South Sudan, Jordan, oPt, Syria and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and support their efforts to find lasting solutions to address the underlying causes of their specific vulnerabilities.  

We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realized through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organizations like War Child, governments, and key decision-makers. 

Your Challenge 

We are looking for an experienced, and forward-thinking Campaigns and Media Manager to join the War Child Alliance Communications team to help deliver high-level collaborative comms, campaigns and media management to drive our global goals, vision and mission.  

Reporting to the Head of Communications, you will engage with key stakeholders from across the Alliance membership to devise and execute global campaign moments, deliver newsworthy hooks and stories and drive coverage within international media around our global programme, scaling and advocacy work.  

Your Responsibilities 

Emergency comms leadership 

• Operate as global comms lead in the event of emergency responses (such as the outbreak or escalation of conflicts or the advent of natural disasters affecting children in conflict zones), attending response management team meetings, leading on response comms strategy development, and coordinating message and content development and approval for all Alliance members as needed.  

Campaign management 

• Coordinate the input of the Global Head of Advocacy and comms colleagues from across the Alliance membership to develop comms campaign strategies that will help realise the Alliance’s advocacy objectives 
• Translate complex policy and advocacy concepts and language into the intelligible, inspiring messaging needed to mobilise a variety of audiences in support of our advocacy objectives 
• Support Alliance members by identifying a diversity of news and stories from War Child programmes and interventions that have the potential to be of interest to their fundraising efforts, donor engagement and media outreach 
• Work with the comms teams of War Child Alliance members to devise and deliver collaborative comms campaign moments that help further our advocacy and scaling  objectives 
• Work with fundraising colleagues to identify and develop opportunities for the involvement of War Child’s corporate partners, ambassadors and other high profile supporters in our campaigns 
• Work with comms colleagues from across the Alliance membership to generate timely and topical campaign content for use across the social channels and websites of War Child Alliance members 
• Coordinate with the comms teams of Alliance members to ensure that we develop and maintain relationships with the comms and campaigns teams of fellow aid agencies, human rights organisations, and other potential partners with whom we can collaborate in pursuit of our advocacy objectives 
• Keep abreast of communications and social media developments, trends and technologies, exploring and recommending opportunities for War Child to utilise such trends to maximise campaign impact. 

Media Management 

• Work closely with the comms teams of Alliance fundraising members (in the UK, Netherlands, US, Sweden and Germany) to provide news and media hooks, and ensure any/all advocacy-related or programmatic media outreach is coordinated with existing media plans within these markets 
• Look for opportunities to place media coverage in global/international media titles –- by generating moments or by monitoring the global media and news agenda for opportunities to provide reactive comments and quotes – that progress our advocacy, research and development and scaling objectives 
• Cultivate and maintain media lists and relationships with influential anglophone global media that could be used to further War Child Alliance’s advocacy objectives - including outlets such as CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Worldwide, and Al Jazeera English 
• Draft media plans, press releases, statements, briefings and other media materials for as needed 

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post. 

Your Profile 

• Experience of crisis communications and campaigns  
• Sound knowledge of global affairs (essential), with experience working within the humanitarian or human rights sector in a media or campaigns role (preferable) 
• Experience of developing and implementing campaign and media strategies 
• Excellent writing skills, with experience of drafting high quality campaign messaging, press releases, quotes, articles and social media posts 
• Excellent knowledge of the international media landscape, with a demonstrable ability to develop and maintain a network of strong contacts within that landscape 
• Significant experience of securing impactful media coverage in support of advocacy objectives 
• Existing strong contacts within International media covering issues pertinent to the work of War Child 
• Experience of preparing charity spokespersons for media interview (preferable) 
• Experience of using a variety of social media channels for campaign purposes  
• Able to self-manage, work flexibly and as part of a team 
• Fluency in English (essential), with a working knowledge of another language (Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Spanish or Swedish) preferable 

Our offer 

• Package dependent on location 
• A 40 hour working week with flexible working opportunities 
• Excellent benefits. 
• Possibility of hybrid working  

• Opportunities for development. 
• A range of well- being activities. 
• The role is based in a country where War Child has an office and colleague presence 

Our Organisation
War Child is a dynamic organization. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our offices, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused, and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child Alliance offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.  

Child safeguarding 

Our work with children to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children in all areas of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, which you can read here: How War Child upholds Integrity | War Child 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before April 30th 2024. Make sure to upload your English CV (maximum of two pages) and cover letter by using this link.  

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By submitting your application you certify that all of the statements made in your application are true, complete, and correct and are made in good faith. You understand that falsifying, misrepresenting or intentionally withholding information will be grounds for rejection of your application or withdrawal of any offer of appointment or, if an appointment offer has been accepted, this will be ground for employment sanctions, such as, but not limited to, instant dismissal. In addition, you understand that you need to submit a Criminal Record Certificate and that, if you fail to submit it, no employment relationship can be established. 

War Child is an international organisation, and we are committed to be a diverse and inclusive employer, placing human and child rights at the centre of our existence and work.  We hire our new colleagues based on their talents, competences and shared values; we do not distinguish them based on their age, gender and gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, disability etc. 

The safety of children and youth is a paramount and essential to War Child’s work. War Child has a zero tolerance policy towards any form of abuse. To prevent placing children and youth at any risk this subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures. Moreover, the accepted candidates will be required to state their commitment/ intent to be aware, consider and adhere to the minimum standards applicable in development and humanitarian settings, such as humanitarian values and principles, Sphere Humanitarian Charter, Standards in the Humanitarian Standards Partnership, Core Humanitarian Standard, International Humanitarian Law, Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief and IASC Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. 

Disclaimer
• Only applications received via our website are processed.
• If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, we reserve the right to remove the vacancy from our website before that date. In such a case, any responses received after that time are not processed.
• It could be that during our selection process the closing date for the vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.