Humanitarian Digital Product Lead.

Context

Are you a social media professional who wants to make a difference in the world? We are looking for a social media adviser to help fulfil our mission to help refugees and displaced people worldwide. Come join us!

NRC’s External Relations Department is a global team responsible for engaging with private individuals and organisations to build awareness of NRC’s work and raise resources for the organisation.

The Public Engagement and Identity Section manages NRC’s digital channels to enable communicate our mission and impact globally. We have grown our digital audience and outreach considerably in the past few years, and social media is one of our key channels for building brand and engagement around NRC’s mission for people forced to flee, both in Norway and globally.

About the position

As social media adviser you are responsible for working towards NRC’s strategic goals through communication on our global and Norwegian social media platforms.

As one of two social media staff, you’ll work with writers, video editors, web editors, graphic designers, and photographers in Oslo and around the world to publish the best content possible for our target audiences.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Creating and publishing engaging social media content in Norwegian and English
• Answering questions and comments on our social media platforms
• Analysing social media performance to make sure we improve over time
• Creating and optimising digital ads that help us build brand awareness and recruit leads for newsletters and fundraising
• Working with writers and video editors to create effective and engaging content for all audiences.
• Giving feedback on social media content to colleagues around the world

What you will bring

• Strong social media skills, and a minimum of three years of experience from social media communication
• Ability to quickly master software relevant for social media publishing and analysis, and experience from using digital advertising tools like Meta and Google Ads Manager
• Fluency in both Norwegian and English, with strong editorial skills
• The ability to transform highly technical information into engaging and impactful social media posts
• Strong team skills, and the ability to communicate with respect and impact, both with your colleagues and the public.
• A demonstrated ability to organise tasks, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

If you are curious and would like to learn more about this role; please click here to access the full Job Description.

We also encourage you to have a look at our social media channels, both in Norwegian and English.

What makes this position attractive?

• A spot in a highly engaged, professional team dedicated to people forced to flee
• A permanent position at NRC’s global headquarters in Oslo
• Waffle Fridays, fjord views from the office and the option to work from home up to 50% of the time.
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions.

Successful candidates share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the people serve, donors that make our work possible, and to each other – the members of our NRC family.

Start date 15 June or as soon as possible.

Please note that you are required to submit your full application in English.

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.