Overview
The Chargé(e) de Communication terrain will support UNICEF Benin's visibility efforts in Northern Benin by documenting program results and contributing to content needs for donors and partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Collect field content and human interest stories through missions, interviews, photos, and videos.
- Write human interest stories, portraits, photo captions, field briefs, and activity summaries.
- Propose communication topics based on programmatic priorities and donor visibility needs.
- Prepare proposal notes with angles, key messages, human interest, and recommended formats.
- Adapt collected content for various platforms including internal briefs, social media, web pages, and donor contributions.
- Support communication preparation and coverage of field visits, missions, activities, thematic days, and events.
- Provide simple and quickly usable content such as selected photos, quotes, briefs, and post proposals.
- Maintain a regular flow of field content to enhance visibility of interventions in the North.
- Propose innovative formats adapted to the local context, such as mini-portraits, audio testimonials, short video capsules, photo series, or participatory formats with youth.
- Contribute to valorizing community voices, especially adolescents and youth, in communication content.
- Ensure classification, archiving, and transmission of produced content with necessary context.
- Ensure content adheres to UNICEF editorial standards and requirements for child protection, confidentiality, informed consent, and image rights.
- Apply ethical guidelines for reporting on children and report any situation presenting an ethical or protection risk.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience in communication, journalism, content production, field documentation, or media animation.
- Experience in collecting testimonials, writing field narratives, and producing content for various media.
- Functional mastery of photography and video, including with smartphones.
- Good ability to work with multiple stakeholders and produce content within short deadlines.
- Experience working with UNICEF, an international organization, an NGO, or a local media is an asset.
- Good knowledge of human rights-based approaches, gender sensitivity, and donor communication requirements is an asset.
- Knowledge of a national language of the Northern Benin region (Dendi, Fulfulde, Bariba) is an asset.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in communication, journalism, digital communication, marketing, audiovisual, graphic design, social sciences, or related fields.
- Minimum BAC+3 university degree in communication, journalism, literature, social sciences, or a related field.
