Media & Communications Officer- Part Time

THE NGO:

WRO for over 20 years has been working through its mandate to promote women’s equal participation and leadership in ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, eradicating poverty and violence against women, catalyzing gender equality, protecting child rights, improving access to health and education, addressing climate change, driving peaceful coexistence, reconciliation and equal and fair pathways to justice, building trust, tolerance, and inclusion, engaging youth, and strengthening sustainability of civil society, and shaping norms for localization development.

WROs mission is to engage as humanitarian aid workers to provide effective and efficient humanitarian aid and development support and empower individuals and communities to become agents of change where every woman, man and child have access to social justice, gender equality and a dignified life free from violence and discrimination. WROs vision is built on the principles and believes in collaborate and collective action of civil society, international organizations, and individuals in investing in the communal needs of refugee, IDPs and host communities to forge social cohesion and peaceful coexistence.

In partnership with local, regional, and global civil society, international organizations, and governmental bodies, WRO has been able to successfully contribute towards meeting individual and community needs through multi-sectorial holistic programming that fosters gender and protection mainstreaming. For 2 decades WRO has successfully delivered over 100 humanitarian and development initiatives focused on local, regional, and global advocacy, stabilization and reconciliation, peace building, general protection, child protection, SGBV prevention and response, psychological MHPSS and physical health and well-being, non-formal education, individual and community capacity building, wash, legal, advocacy, livelihoods, political and economic participation, voter and democratic awareness, reconstruction, and  civil society and governmental capacity building and engagement initiatives. Furthermore, WRO is devoted to international commitments including contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security, and UNSCR 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security.

As a national and regional expert in holistic individual, family and community economic, education, protection, social, and equal participation empowerment, WROs efforts have shed light locally and internationally through advocacy on many important issues such as mainstreaming gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response across all sectors, sexual violence in conflict (SVC), and other issued related to marginalized groups rights in Iraq and the Middle East through initiatives that directly impact tens of thousands of families each year including though provision of lifesaving support and developmental dignified solutions and services that drive individual and collective healing, integration, inclusion, self-resiliency, self-efficacy, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence with dignity and care.

THE POSITION

WRO seeks to hire a par-time Communications and Media Officer whose mission is in alignment with and advancement of WROs strategic objectives and mandate. The position is primarily responsible for

Developing, creating, and preparing communication and marketing materials for WRO, more specifically;

Location Based: Erbil, Iraq

RESPONCIBILITIES

• Implement and contribute to developing WROs communications strategy in cooperation with Sr. Management that reflects WROs strategic objectives and mandate.
• Develop, edit, and update regularly communications, marketing, visibility and publication materials such as; newsletter, annual reports, organization profile, policy briefs, case studies, human stories, press releases, website, news and analysis.
• Take initiative to engage field and programs staff to gather data and information for communications materials.
• Create video and image media materials of WROs work for potential publication and partner communications.
• Train field teams in WROs media policy to ensure do no harm and media standards in humanitarian settings.
• Create and maintain a database of all field and events media.
• Identify and connect with international platforms relevant to WROs work.
• Remain flexible to support in other related tasks and needed.

PROFILE REQUIRED/PREFERRED

• Related educational and/or work experience.
• Motivated by humanitarian and development action and working towards the growth of national CSOs in order to meet greater the needs of the people we serve.
• Proven experience in communications and media materials development.
• Experience or deep motivation in children rights, human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment related programming
• Advanced communication skills, including active listening skills and excellent English written communication.
• Exceptional professionalism and interpersonal skills and an ability to work collegially with team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independent, be self-motivated, and allocate and review priorities to meet deadlines.
• Flexibility in approach and an ability to adapt to varying demands and work hours
• Ability to identify problems and resolutions.
• Proficient skills and experience in working on MS Office.

Please submit CV and cover letter with earliest available start date to: [email protected] Subject Line: Communications and Media Officer_ Your Name. Please note applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Thank you very much for your interest, as we are not able to reply to all applications, if your profile meets our needs we will keep in on file for future opportunities. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in due time.