Regional Content and Digital Coordinator Honduras

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC works in more than 50 countries and in 28 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future, and strengthen their communities.

Communications, Marketing & Mobilization (M&M) is a dynamic team that is tasked with building the IRC’s global profile and brand, growing private revenue from deeper donor engagement and partnerships, and influencing our target audiences. The team is responsible for all of IRC’s brand, communications, creative and content and digital engagement efforts. In alignment with our Strategy100 commitments, M&M has launched compelling multi-year campaigns that raise funding, profile and influence and will improve our share of voice and resonance in key geographies and globally. Lastly, they consistently work on innovating the IRC brand, which enables us to increase awareness, understanding of and support for our work so that we can raise more money and change policies to improve our crisis-affected clients’ lives around the world.

Job Overview

The Regional Content and Digital Coordinator for Latin America focuses on identifying, gathering and packaging powerful content (photo, video, audio, etcetera) from the region to connect audiences to IRC’s work and support our goals of building income, profile and influence. The role calls for a social media specialist who will operate IRC’s digital channels in Spanish (to be launched) in addition to a content producer with outstanding storytelling skills that will bring to life the IRC’s life-saving work in response to the multiple crises in Latin American countries for external audiences and donors. They will developinformation and content assets that showcase our on the ground impact. This position will work closely with frontline programming colleagues to gather critical programming information, spot stories, train programming colleagues, and collect content.

We are looking for a new team member with experience operating in fluid and complex sectors, with capacity to quickly respond during humanitarian emergency situations. A person who has a great understanding of the social and political issues impacting Latin America (and preferably overall the humanitarian sector), experience working with different areas to spot outstanding subjects and a gift for identifying compelling angles and creative ways of telling stories in difficult circumstances. We are looking for a strong multimedia producer who brings solid writing, graphic and digital engagement skills. You’ll gather, process and lead the post production of content yourself; prioritize information about IRC programs; and produce and publish content.

This role reports to the Associate Director, Public Affairs & Communications, Latin America and works seamlessly across the External Relations department and the IRC at large. They help colleagues and partners stay abreast of storytelling techniques and trends with ongoing story-spotting and technical workshops.

Major Responsibilities

Serve as a lead social media manager and storyteller for the Latin America region: work with frontline programs, partners and country communications officers to continuously gather information about our projects, identify outstanding stories, and deliver high quality content to communicate to multiple audiences, including the general public in IRC’s target markets and LATAM, media outlets, and major institutional and corporate donors.

• Contribute to the development of the digital strategy for the IRC in Latin America and/or Spanish-speaking audiences.
• Handle the IRC Latin America/Spanish social media accounts, supervising the editorial planning process, content production and publication in English and/or Spanish.
• Implement content-gathering trips: work with communications, marketing and program colleagues to shape trip requirements and resolve as feasible. Then work independently and/or with freelance staff to gather rich case studies and high-quality assets (interviews, videos, photos, etc.).
• Produce a broad range of compelling multimedia content designed to engage IRC’s audience targets, including short-form videos, text-base explainers, social media posts, data-based features, live event’s programming, and more.
• Cover the full arc of content development: Support pushes and campaigns by identifying outstanding story ideas and content opportunities; handle reporting and gather raw assets; transform the material into brilliant pieces tailored for specific audiences and channels.
• Communicate and work directly with Country Communications, Grants and Programs staff as needed to develop stories and pieces; be prepared to travel to programming sites to gather on-the-ground material.
• Work with channel editors for the site, social, and email to draft content and support distribution strategies.
• Improve digital content operations; promote agile and flexible processes to support rapid delivery of extraordinary content across the IRCs global digital channels.
• Design and deliver storytelling and photo/video tech workshops to IRC staff, train non-professional partners and clients in the field on how to produce content with a variety of equipment, from professional gear to smartphones.

Work Experience

Job Requirements:

• BA degree or equivalent experience in journalism, communications, media production or related field or equivalent 4-5 years of professional experience producing multimedia digital content for an international news outlet, company or nonprofit organization. Strong interest in international affairs and humanitarian issues.
• Experience running and growing social media communities and excellent command of social media management tools and analytics.
• Consistent track record in developing compelling multi-media packages (with some combination of photo, video, and graphic skills.
• Have fluency in all elements of post-production—backing up data; building and organizing Adobe Premiere project files; color correction and grading; sound design; motion graphics; editing music tracks; building engaging and coherent sequences; exporting; compression; sharing out results in different formats; and preservation of completed projects for archiving.
• Some degree of comfort and proficiency with multimedia and film production tools.
• Sharp written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team; comfortable collaborating with and channeling the multiple collaborators involved in NGO communications projects.
• Eager to travel widely and willing to work unusual hours.
• Able to think and take action quickly and creatively in fast-paced environments.

Education: BA degree or equivalent experience in journalism, communications, media production or related field.

Language Skills: English and Spanish required.

Working Environment: Fast-paced and fluid work environment. Willing to travel domestically or internationally up to 50%