Field Media Officer

General Description of the Organization:

Orange is a non-governmental civil society organization devoted to alleviating suffering and improving the sustainability mechanisms of the conflict-affected population.

Since its establishment in 2016, Orange partners directly with affected Syrian populations delivering programmes spanning sectors, including humanitarian and development programmes, in the Early Recovery, Food Security, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Education, and Protection, in addition to long-term impact interventions focusing on the economic empowerment and the local value chains improvements to enable targeted communities to improve their living practices and their sustainable mechanisms.

Orange collaborates with a variety of national and international non-governmental organizations, as well as local initiatives, to adopt a community-based approach that leads to improving the response’s impact to the humanitarian crisis, and provides sustainable and alternative solutions.

Job Purpose:

The Media Officer will be responsible for video editing, photography, design and montage, and has strong media network management skills. You will be responsible for producing and editing visual and written content for our media projects.

Duties, objectives and competencies:

• Work with the Senior Advocacy and Media officer, training Teams and the IT team to collect high quality blogs/Vlogs, success stories, photographs and video footage for communications and advocacy purposes, as outlined in Orange Media Guidelines.
• Proactively identify new content for stories/blogs/Vlogs, sharing ideas for new content with the Advocacy and Communications Manager.
• Assist in maintaining effective filing system of communications materials.
• Supporting the training team in taking videos and photos, and producing high quality materials.
• Supporting in advertising of Orange ones.
• Complete weekly reports to the line manager, to report on work carried out in the previous week.
• Any other duties as outlined by the line manager. In the field

Requirements (essential):

• Minimum 2 year experience in media/communications,
• Excellent photography, filming and video editing skills, and applications like Photoshop, illustrator, Video Studio.
• Flexible about working long hours
• Good communication skills (written, spoken), demonstrable writing skills in English and fluency in Arabic
• Prepared for working in an insecure environment
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft packages, including Excel, Word, and Outlook (particular emphasis on Excel)
• A flexible approach to work and willingness to take on extra duties, work additional hours or on weekends as required;
• Willingness to learn and to take on extra duties as required;
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Trustworthy and honest.
• Diplomacy and negotiation skills; and
• High communications skills and deep knowledge of the Syria context.

Orange’s Values and Principles:

We believe that:

• Maintaining a positive, healthy, and trusting relationship are central to making the partnership a success.
• Appropriately trained and resourced staff and volunteers are key to effective and efficient service and program delivery in the development sector.

We are committed to:

• Shared responsibility, accountability, and decision-making in any partnership.
• Providing access to high-quality learning empowers people and professionals in the development sector, particularly in the developing world.
• Learning from each other strengthens and enhances the

Child safeguarding & PSEA policy

Orange aims to create an organization that is safe for children and women but is also aware of the need to keep child protection concerns proportionate and to guard against over-zealous attitudes. Child and women abuse thrives in closed and secretive atmospheres. Orange’s best protection is to create an open and aware culture where people are not afraid to speak about their concerns.

Any employee, consultant, contractor or the supplier undertaking an activity on behalf of Orange capacity building must sign the Child Safeguarding and PSEA– Declaration of Acceptance Form and comply with the Orange child safeguarding and PSEA Policy which is a statement of Orange commitment to preventing abuse and protecting children with whom it comes into contact