Senior Manager Communications and
Media

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Media Director

Staff reporting to this post: Communications and Media Officer, Digital and Social Media Officer, and Communications and Reporting Officers.

Budget Responsibilities: May be required to manage temporary budgets as required by the line manager.

Role Dimensions:

The role holder is expected to work closely with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaborative partnerships, and always ensuring the best interests of the children we work with.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Developing a communication and media strategy for the country office within framework for country strategic plan and in line with Country Strategic Plan (2023-2024) keeping a child centered approach in external communications and media work.
• Strategy and implementation of creative/innovative communication materials to build brand profile as leading child rights organization.
• Engaging with external stakeholders such as agencies, consultants and internal stakeholders to raise profile of Save the Children Pakistan’s work at regional and global level.
• Consulting and promoting the participation of children and affected communities to amplify their voices through all communication work of the country office.
• With support from the Communications team lead on case study and content gathering visits to project activities/events, to collect high quality content, including interviews, photos and videos, to tell stories of our impact on the ground and develop related communication products on themes such as climate change, hunger etc.
• Building the capacities of the communications and media team and Save the Children staff.
• Acting as the Child Safeguarding focal point for all communication work, ensure strict adherence to child safeguarding policy in communications work, and train Save the Children staff, partner staff and media partners on child safeguarding requirements when collecting content from the field.
• Leading the processes of designing and dissemination of communication materials.
• With support from the Digital and Social Media Officer, lead on content strategy for campaigns and programs to strengthen Save the Children Pakistan social media platforms, including audience analysis through social listening grow brand profile through digital & social platforms.
• With support from the communications and media team, leading on the designing and dissemination of internal and external communication materials and information products and ensuring that the branding and communication guidelines of Save the Children are uniformly and consistently followed across the Pakistan CO.
• Lead on media stories  and speaking out opportunities to step up Save the Children Pakistan voice on child rights ensuring networks with global and national media networks. Working with Asia Regional Office Media Manager to identify potential media moments highlighting identified advocacy issues and drafting of associated press releases.
• Facilitating media interviews with the Pakistan Country Director or designate, and leading on media training for media spokespersons as needed and relevant.
• Facilitating program and response visits accompanying external and internal donors and stakeholders to build brand profile & project impact of our responses and programs.
• Supporting country office teams to organize policy, advocacy and project events.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds  self  accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s or professional degree in marketing, Communications, Advertising, Media, Journalism or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of  experience working in marketing firms or advertising agency handling brands, communication and media at country or regional level.
• Experience  in journalism an d in social media  content   development  an d management will be preferred
• First language proficiency in English and business reading & writing proficiency in Urdu will  be preferred.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience working in marketing, media and communications.
• Skills in managing  Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Tik Tok and other social media platforms.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing communication strategies.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Urdu, fluency in local languages an asset.
• Strong written communication skills and experience in writing high impact case studies, media releases and other communication products.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
• Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy
• Ability and willingness to travel to field locations to collect communications content.

 Desirable:

• Good understanding of the advocacy, campaigns, communication and media work carried out within SC Pakistan.
• Ability to use software to develop digital assets (social media cards, videos, edit pictures etc).
• Good understanding of branding and visibility work.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.