Organization: CGIAR System Organization
Location: Addis Ababa
Grade: Mid level – Mid level
Occupational Groups:
Communication and Public Information
Managerial positions
Closing Date: 2025-02-06
About CGIAR
CGIAR is an international research collaboration aimed at ensuring future food security. The goals of CGIAR science are to improve natural resources and ecosystem services, decrease poverty, and increase food and nutrition security. Hundreds of partners, including academic institutions, development agencies, the commercial sector, national and regional research institutes, and civil society groups, collaborate closely on its research.
About the position
Under the Enablement function, the Communications and Advocacy unit engages internal and external stakeholders of the CGIAR Systems Organization through a variety of conventional and non-traditional channels by offering programming and consulting services. To accomplish the group’s goal of raising awareness and support, it is essential to use a clear, cohesive voice to promote the research for development programs of the CGIAR overall and of specific centers in particular, as well as their effect.
Reporting to the Director of Communications and Advocacy, the Internal Communications Coordinator creates and implements internal communications activities and content and supports the Communications and Advocacy team’s internal staff engagement and communications efforts. In order to promote employee involvement and create a cooperative CGIAR community, it is essential to be in charge of creating content and activities for the larger Internal Communications portfolio from identification, delivery, and evaluation.
Responsibilities
- Generate / write content for use across internal communication platforms.
- Research background data to identify issues, trends, and points of interest in CGIAR’s work and workforce, supporting Internal Communications content and campaigns.
- Explore, design and deliver options for content and campaigns aimed at internal communication, including themes, tone, and channels, to maximize reach and impact.
- Stay abreast of new trends and benchmark best practice in internal communication to help shape CGIAR’s internal communication strategy.
- Analyze staff engagement surveys and other data sources against KPIs/KRIs and design and follow adequate metrics to assess the impact of Internal Communications initiatives.
- Organize meetings with the Communications and Advocacy team to share information and best practices across focus areas.
- Pitch and shape content and campaign ideas for internal communication, by presenting research to highlight emerging interests and staff engagement challenges.
- Build and leverage a directory of CGIAR resources to serve as internal champions and influencers for message dissemination and feedback.
- Interview and engage internal stakeholders to develop success stories and narratives that highlight CGIAR’s impactful work for content and campaign development.
- Organize and deliver content, and outreach activities to support the internal communications campaigns .
- Monitor KPIs/KRIs and compile metrics across channels to inform internal communications campaign and strategy assessments, track and measure impact of internal communication and propose evolutions to the strategy and approaches accordingly.
- Document best practices to support capacity building and improve content and initiatives.
Requirements:
Education and Experience
- Advanced Degree in Journalism, Communications, Social Sciences, Political Science, Public Relations, or other related disciplines.
- General experience in internal communications, including research and content development, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Competences
- Substantive knowledge: Demonstrated capacity gained through training/education in communications reflecting conceptual understanding.
- Communication skills: Demonstrated Skill in listening and identifying issues.
- Execution skills: Demonstrated Achievement in identifying of process steps and standards
Languages
Fluency in English essential to communicate in writing and speaking. Knowledge of a second language desirable.
The selected staff member will be offered terms and conditions commensurate with the grade of the position.
How to apply
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