Communications and Marketing Director

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Communications and Marketing Director, you will:

• Increase the overall reputation, trust, and income of World Vision Ethiopia.
• Provide strong strategic communications and marketing leadership for the organisation.
• Lead in the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for the building of a high-performance communications and marketing function that is managed, structured, focused, and staffed for productive and quality work. This strategy will identify the key communications and marketing needs of World Vision Ethiopia, while setting and steering strategic communications and marketing goals and processes that are contextualised to and in alignment with its core ministry functions and goals nationally and with our global strategy, Our Promise.
• Ensure alignment with global marketing and communications strategic objectives of; achieving high-quality and sustainable funding, ignite content, ignite global voices, and ignite staff.

Requirements include:

• Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Media, Journalism, Arts or similar
• 5 years and above experience leading and managing marketing and communications teams in international humanitarian and development sector, business, or creative industries
• Demonstrated experience managing corporate partnerships and developing major donor relationships
• Advanced technical skills in at least one or more of the major areas of the job, such as; creative services, public engagement, corporate communications, marketing operations, supporter engagement, business development, etc.
• Fluency in English is required
• Working primarily in the head office in Addis Ababa, semi-regular travel locally and internationally will be required.