Communication Coordinator Job Vacant at Plan International, 2024
Post Title: Communication Coordinator
Date Posted: May 31, 2024.
Organization: Plan International.
The Company:
Plan International is an autonomous humanitarian and development organization that promotes females’ equality and children’s rights.
Every child has potential and strength, in our opinion. However, poverty, violence, isolation, and discrimination frequently stifle this. And the majority of those impacted are girls.
In order to create a just world, we collaborate with kids, teens, our allies, and partners. We address the underlying issues that affect girls and other vulnerable children.
We affirm the rights of children from the moment of their birth till adulthood. Additionally, we give kids the tools they need to anticipate and deal with hardships and emergencies. With our network, expertise, and understanding, we influence practice and policy changes at the local, national, and international levels.
Having established strong alliances for kids for more than 85 years, we presently operate in more than 80 nations.
Size of the Position:
- In addition to helping Project and Program Unit teams prepare, implement, and monitor communications and visibility/branding plans, the post holder is in charge of carrying out Plan International Tanzania’s program support communications strategy. This includes gathering, documenting, archiving, packaging, and sharing crucial information, best practices, and learning from both within and outside of Plan International Tanzania.
- Creating and maintaining databases, systems, and tools for information and education at the national, provincial, and program office levels.
- While performing their duties, the job holder will collaborate with the communications focal points in the Thematic, Project, and Program Implementation Areas rather than directly with them.
- Help teams in charge of media coordination in the country office, thematic, project, and program implementation area.
- Assist in making sure that activities adhere to the project communication plan by following donor directives.
- Take part in creating the main messages for IEC materials in collaboration with the partners, program, and communications teams.
- Organize the program’s, project’s, and partners’ communication events and activities.
- Encourage the holding of information-sharing seminars, events, and campaigns to raise awareness.
- Make field visits in order to assist guests or gather data for documentation needs (pictures, videos, and audio).
- Take part in donor visits to highlight the accomplishments and progress of your initiative.
- Record interesting success stories, case studies, and pertinent project documentation. When necessary, make recommendations on a range of topics.
- Ensure that a system for managing documents is in place, both offline and online.
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Job location: Dar es Salaam.
Reports to: Manager of Communications, Advocacy, and Influencing.
Level: 14.
Date of Closure: June 13, 2024.
At its core, Plan International is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.
By providing equal chances to everyone, regardless of age, handicap, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, color, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, we hope that Plan International will represent the diversity of the communities we work with.
Plan International is built on an inclusive culture, and we work hard to establish an environment at work where every team, office, and nation is full of different individuals, perspectives, and ideas.
We cultivate an organizational culture that upholds our dedication to inclusivity, racial justice, gender equality, and girls’ rights.
According to Plan International, it is our responsibility as an organization to make sure that we take all reasonable precautions to keep children safe in a world when there are so many threats to their safety. This implies that we have specific obligations to the children we interact with, and we must never inadvertently do harm to or expose children to risk.
Pre-employment investigations will be conducted in accordance with Plan International’s policy regarding the Safeguarding of Children and Young People. A participant in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme is Plan International as well. In accordance with this plan, we will ask the applicant’s former employers for information regarding any findings of sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment while employment, as well as any events that were under investigation at the time the applicant departed. The job applicant certifies that they have read and understand our recruitment procedures by submitting an application.
It should be noted that Plan International would never ask candidates for money through unsolicited emails.