Communications Officer at Action Against Hunger

The Communications Officer will play a key role in implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) funded by the UK Department for International Development, a joint project being implemented by Save the Children UK (SC) and Action Against Hunger (ACF).

Summary of Key Objectives:
• Develop communication tools and materials to ensure successful program implementation of CDGP for various stakeholders (beneficiaries, community, donor government and other)
• Maintain and organize communication data and materials
• Document and share good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities at the local community and state levels
• Represent ACF externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups

Qualifications & Essential Skills:
• Bachelor degree in media, communications, marketing or equivalent.  Higher level degree and/or significant communications expertise preferred. NYSC Certificate
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive
• Highly collaborative style; experience developing and implementing communications strategies
• Excellent writing/editing, analytical and verbal communication skills
• Relationship builder with the flexibility and finesse to "manage by influence"
• High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to serve as a unifying force and to position communications discussions at both the strategic and tactical levels
• Sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, board members, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters
• Self-starter, able to work independently, and entrepreneurial; enjoys creating and implementing new initiatives
• Experience in working with NGO  donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
• Fluency in Hausa and English
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word) and Publisher Experience in humanitarian communications
• Experience in designing and leading media campaign or communication strategies.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy
Preferred
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming, particularly cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous experience with behaviour change communication programming Previous experience with ACF