Roving Reporter – Emergency Communications Specialist

World Vision International

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.

Come join our 33,000+ 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 Roving Reporter – Emergency Communications Specialist, you will convey in compelling ways the impact of humanitarian crises on children and families and show how World Vision (WV) is making a difference. You will give voice to those caught in crises in order to engage media, donors and the public is essential. You will have a particular focus on the Middle East, being based there or with easy access to the region.

As a multi-media specialist, you will deploy into sudden and high-profile emergencies and breaking news contexts to deliver video, image, and text content to boost WV’s global profile. You will profile invisible emergencies, and gather content for key moments, campaigns, and other high-impact public engagement events involving multi-media content collection, also serving as global spokesperson, pitching, engaging, and hosting media, and VIPs.

This is a high-visibility role that has significant positioning, risk management and leadership, and field engagement responsibilities.

Requirements include:

• Masters or equivalent experience in journalism, public relations, or other relevant field.
• At least 5 years of progressive work experience with international exposure/external engagement in humanitarian emergencies or fragile country contexts
• Experienced in networking with social media influencers, and working in international development and humanitarian ecosystems.
• Strong journalistic and technical photo, video, story, and social media skills. Ability to facilitate the collection of image and story resources. Ability to use mobile phone to capture, edit, and share photographs, video, and audio on social media.
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken, plus a second language, preferably Spanish, French, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin, or German.
• Experience in media relations, public speaking, or serving as a spokesperson.

Travel and/or Work Environment and Physical Requirement:

• 50% – ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally and within hostile environments.
• The job involves traveling in harsh contexts.