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Roving Emergency Advisor NGO Job DRC
About the job
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
- Deploy globally for periods of 1 to 3 months to lead on delivery of country-level communications and advocacy strategies, products and engagement according to DRC’s emergency framework (or could be a focus on advocacy or comms) to align with the emergency response plan linked to DRC priorities and wider humanitarian policies, conventions, principles and forums
- Collaborate with DRC and partners in the affected country, and with communications and advocacy teams at Headquarters to create emergency communications and advocacy strategies that drives awareness, support fundraising, and policy change.
- Ensure that high quality, safe, principled, consultative and engaging communications products across different platforms and mediums
- Build capacity of and increase engagement with colleagues and partners to elevate the communications and advocacy deliverables as well as some external engagement.
About you
To be successful in this role we expect you to have a proven record of advocacy and communications in emergency response, ideally with experience in the sectors DRC works in, and in multiple contexts and a willingness and desire to work in both high-pressure and unstable environments. All employees should demonstrate DRC’s core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity. Moreover, we also expect the following:
Required
Experience and technical competencies:
- At least 5 years of progressive work experience with international advocacy and communications deliverables in humanitarian emergencies or fragile country contexts
- 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, and share photographs, video, and audio on social media.
- Experiences in networking with social media influencers and working in international development and humanitarian ecosystems.
- Proven field communications and advocacy experience in emergency settings.
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise and prioritise a substantial workload co
- Imprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities and ability to delegate
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