Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Category:
Type: Full Time
Deadline: 27-Mar-19 12:00:00 AM
Salary: Salary will be defined according to "Right Side" Human Rights Defender NGO salary grid depending on a candidate's experience. Possibility of salary increase based on performance.
Description
"Right Side" Human Rights Defender NGO is looking for a PR and Communications Officer. This position is responsible for strategic communications in support of campaigns that engage, drive action and provide alignment across partners and beneficiaries. The ideal candidate is a communications generalist with experience in multiple aspects of communications who can flexibly lead and contribute to various projects and provide expert writing and counsel to managers to build communication and dialogue skills. The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of human rights; possess excellent writing skills and an ability to interface effectively with executives while making tactical decisions to achieve desired outcomes. He/ she shall also excel at managing multiple deadlines in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. Collaboration is critical in this role, which involves project managing across communication functions (media relations, campaigning, etc.) to execute communications plans to support NGO goals and strategy. For this position, "Right Side" is looking for a human rights activist who has been involved in NGO sector locally and/ or regionally/ internationally. The Organization is looking for someone who applies a (self-) critical approach to the work, includes intersectional perspectives and accumulates a set of skills specified below.
Responsibilities
- Manage social media channels;
- Responsible for visual identity;
- Coordinate campaigns;
- Ensure media statements are in line with "Right Side" Human Rights Defender NGO core messages, and facilitate the promotion or release of statements to audiences;
- Responsible for backend coordination of website and mailing-lists;
- Establish working relationships with others working in the media or communications sector who work with and for marginalized populations, including migrant, sex worker, women's rights, anti-racist, disability groups and other organizations;
- Support "Right Side" fundraising activities;
- Contribute to strategic development of the Organization;
- Contribute to internal and external reporting;
- Perform other job-related tasks as resulting from organizational processes.
RequiredQualifications
- University degree in a related field;
- At least 2 years of experience in PR and Communication;
- Excellent knowledge of English and Armenian languages, both spoken and written;
- Good understanding of the human rights situation for trans people in Armenia;
- Experience in writing public statements and editing articles;
- Skills in social media, design of graphics for online use, website development (WordPress), printing processes;
- Skills in adding subtitles to videos, alternative-text to images, and making PDF documents that are accessible;
- Sound ability to work individually and within diverse teams;
- Understanding of intersectional approaches;
- Willing to learn, unlearn, and challenge normative narratives;
- Skills in story-telling through comics, poems, short stories, videos, or other medium;
- Video editing, filming, production, and photography skills;
- Ability to plan and deliver trainings and workshops on campaigning and communications.
Benefits
Job URL: iJob.am - PR and Communications Officer @ Right Side Human Rights Defender NGO
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