Overview
The Communications Specialist will strengthen the CAFI Secretariat's communications, visibility, and reporting across its portfolio. This role involves content creation, quality control, and media relations to enhance CAFI's public presence and impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement new trends and technologies in web- and digital-based graphic design.
- Maintain CAFI Trust Fund presence in public dialogue.
- Develop relationships with key partners to maximize visibility and traffic to CAFI digital platforms.
- Lead on the identification of new communications opportunities and products.
- Coordinate the production and publishing of daily content for social networks, presentations, text, images, video or HTML.
- Create content for the CAFI website, keeping it current with new articles, programme pages and thematic areas.
- Responsible for daily updates across CAFI’s social media platforms, including preparing and publishing content, monitoring engagement, and ensuring timely communication.
- Identify and develop compelling stories from the CAFI portfolio, and produce multimedia content (stories, videos, graphics, and social media updates).
- Maintain CAFI social media presence, including developing lists of international days and events, mapping stakeholders, drafting social media kits, and sharing content via the CAFI Twitter account.
- Lead on the production of high-quality communications products for print, audio/visual and social media in UN languages.
- Responsible for drafting detailed Terms of Reference (TORs) of all deliverables expected from external communication firms.
- Conduct systematic quality control of all deliverables to ensure compliance with CAFI’s communication strategy, branding guidelines, editorial standards, and expected impact.
- Provide consolidated feedback, request revisions, and ensure outputs meet operational and strategic requirements.
- Review materials coming from country partners and develop and provide regular and targeted guidance to align messaging.
- Perform editorial reviews of relevant portfolio knowledge products.
- Design and develop infographics, posters, leaflets, presentations, brochures, reports and any other design required.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of the CAFI communication strategy.
- Establish and manage the Secretariat’s central database of all CAFI communication materials.
- Draft press releases, factsheets, talking points, and scripts for video messages.
- Organize responses to media requests and support messaging.
- Support media outreach during major events/meetings.
- Support the contracting of national communication consultants, media professionals, or journalists in CAFI partner countries.
- Support the organization of field visits with journalists and photographer(s) to CAFI programme sites.
Required Experience
Minimum 7 years (with Master’s degree) or 9 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant work experience in implementing strategic communications (including content creation & design, quality control, media relations) in several countries and across a diverse portfolio of programmes is required. Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical, scientific, or policy information into clear, concise, and accessible messages. Proven experience using accessible design tools to translate complex technical information into simple, visually engaging communication products. Strong design and digital communication skills including the use of widely adopted tools such as Canva, Adobe Express, Figma or similar light production platforms. Experience producing engaging social media content and managing digital communication across multiple platforms. Proven ability to provide tailored communication guidance to teams and implementing partners. Experience in media relations, including in sensitive or high profile contexts. Demonstrated ability to work independently, creatively and under tight deadlines. Proven knowledge of climate change. Proven knowledge of the Central African context and its challenges. Proven knowledge of rural development contexts.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Communications, Journalism, or related field is required. Or A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
