GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a non-governmental and nonprofit organization that strife to make life of vulnerable women and children better through revitalized partnership. GPON provides life-skill education and psychosocial support to conflict-affected, WaSH community or camp services, Education in emergency services, Gender-based Violence mitigation services, Child protection service, Protection monitoring services, Nutrition and public health services.
- Job Type: Contract
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 3 – 5 years
- Location: Borno
- Job Field: Media / Advertising / Branding , NGO/Non-Profit
- Salary Range: ₦200,000 – ₦300,000/month
Contract duration: 6 months (1 months as probation contract) with option to extend.
POSITION SUMMARY.
The Advocacy and Communications Officer will play a lead role in coordinating GOALPrime’s advocacy and communications initiatives, plans and activities.
Specific responsibilities
- Support the provision of high quality analysis on the humanitarian situation in Northeast Nigeria, pertaining to displacement-affected, contributing to improved GPON programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products;
- Visit field programmes on a regular basis to collect quality, videos, testimonies and write stories about IDPs in Camps and Host communities, for external and internal use
- Build a database of high-quality activity videos for GPON archives.
- Support programme staff in incorporating and integrating advocacy into all aspects of GPON’s programme activities, strategy and budgeting;
- Actively network with peers from other likeminded organizations involved in the response, and lead on development of joint field-based advocacy towards target audiences;
- Draft and deliver necessary reporting documents related to the advocacy, communication & media strategy/strategies, including Advocacy and media Key Messages;
- Participate in relevant fundraising opportunities for advocacy and contribute to the development of quality proposals, ensuring inclusion of advocacy activities on specific humanitarian and protection issues affecting displacement-affected where appropriate;
- Develop and maintain a media network with international and local journalists and advise on media engagement ;
- Write a summary of weekly activities
- Perform any other duties assigned by Supervisor.
Experience and skills required for the role.
- Degree or certificate in photography, film production, fine arts, visual communications, journalism, or other relevant fields. If no degree held, candidate should be able to demonstrate a wealth of relevant experience.
- A minimum of 3 years relevant professional experience in photography, Journalism, film production or visual communications.
- Fluency in English; fluency in Hausa and kanuri is desirable.
- Experience working in the field in Northeast Nigeria or other high security field locations.
- Knowledge of concepts in the field of resilience, humanitarian assistance