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Job Title: (Internal Vacancy) Communications and Youth Coordinator FP2030
Team: Programme Delivery
Reports To: FP2030 Latin American and Caribbean Regional Hub
Contract Length: Permanent
Grade: P2
Location: Panama, or any approved Save the Children International office location in LAC
Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): LAC time zone
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Spanish
International Travel Requirements: up to 20%
Team and Job Purpose
Team purpose
Family Planning 2030 (FP2030) is a global partnership of governments, civil society, multilateral organizations, donors, private sector, and researchers committed to supporting the rights of women and girls who wish to use contraception. FP2030’s vision is a future where women and girls everywhere have the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives, make their own informed decisions about using contraception and having children, and participate as equals in society and its development.
The FP2030 Support Network include five regional hubs: North, West and Central Africa; East and Southern Africa; Asia and the Pacific; and Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America and Europe, led by an Executive Director, supported by an Executive Directorate team, who reports to the Governing Board. The FP2030 LAC hub will be headed by a Managing Director supported by a small team. Save the Children and PROFAMILIA-Colombia working in a collaborative manner have been selected as the host of the FP2030 Latin America & Caribbean Regional Hub.
Role purpose
The LAC regional hub will have a regional Communications and Media Coordinator who will implement the global communications strategy, contributing to FP2030 positioning and visibility in the region, while supporting advocacy and engagement actions. The Communications and Media Coordinator will support the global communications and media strategy, and campaigns development around the hub priorities. This position will ensure the visibility and positioning actions aligned with the regional hub objectives and agenda.
Principal Accountabilities
Strategic Planning and Management
- Create, adapt and implement communications and media strategies aligned with FP2030 global and regional priorities engaging internal and external key audiences.
- Work jointly and provide strategic communications advice to the global and regional leadership team to achieve regional hub objectives.
Ensure adolescent and youth participation in all products and campaigns.
- Visibility and External Relations
- Identify the visibility needs for the hub and ensure the development of strategic communications plans to address these needs.
- Produce communications materials and resources such as case studies, brochures, blogs, press releases, presentations, communications toolkits, talking points, reports, among others, for online, print, and social media channels to highlight the regional hub and its impact.
- Work with external vendors as/if needed to print and design products for the hub as well as coordinate media support or other tasks.
- Produce materials in coordination with the global and leadership team for supporting the advocacy and fundraising initiatives.
- Ensure consistent language, tone, and branding for all communications products and platforms through coordination with the Global FP2030 Communications team.
- Support the Hub’s presence and visibility at regional and/or global events.
- Perform other relevant tasks that may be assigned by the line manager.
- Engage regional media outlets and pitch news stories about the hub in LAC in coordination with Save the Children and Profamilia media managers.
- Disseminate available FP2030 communications toolkits and reports, and present reference materials from other partners.
- Analize and identify key data from technical reports to create key messages, press releases and communications pieces to position FP2030 among prioritise audiences.
Programmatic Oversight
- Collaborate with civil society partners, including youth led-organizations, consultants, and other staff as needed to advance communications work across the region.
- Provide regular updates on the progress of visibility, positioning, communications and media in the region, including to the Global FP2030 Communications Team, and Senior Leadership as requested; draft content for reports to funders, Senior Leadership, and key external stakeholders as needed.
- Ensure proper dissemination of relevant studies, research, reports and data from the Hub or FP2030, and other stakeholders in the LAC region.
- Ensure YA involvement in the development of advocacy strategies.
Child Safeguarding
- Children who come into contact with Save the Children as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of child abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm.
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, decision-making, and project management skills.
- Excellent organization skills, capable of delivering objectives independently.
- Excellent writing, editorial editing, and research skills
- Excellent oral communications skills including presentations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and cultural competencies.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency in the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Knowledge and proficiency with design and editing programs.
- Strong time management and prioritization skills and the ability to meet multiple deadlines and deliver objectives on time despite time constraints and pressure situations.
Desirable
- Team player with adaptable and pragmatic approach to work, able to work independently as well as with a team.
- Enthusiastic and motivated about FP2030’s vision, mission, and values.
- Politically astute with a good understanding of the bigger picture, culturally sensitive and diplomatic.
- Commitment to community and civil society engagement including the meaningful participation of marginalized communities.
- Passionate about youth involvement.
Key Relationships
Internal:
- FP2030 Global Office communications team
- Save the Children communications team
- Profamilia and ShareNet Colombia communications team
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent standard of education required, preferably in communications, digital media, journalism, international relations, global health, or other directly related field or equivalent standard of education.
- Postgraduate studies in social or basic sciences, such as communications, international relations, global health, journalism, digital media, or other directly related field, or equivalent standard of education preferred.
