Campaigns & Media Manager

"An experienced, and collaborative communications professional with experience of crisis comms, international media management and global campaign work."

About us

War Child: the charity for children affected by war. We are a specialist charity for children in conflict, delivering high-impact programs that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic, Colombia, Ukraine, Uganda, Burundi, South Sudan, Jordan, oPt, Syria and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and support their efforts to find lasting solutions to address the underlying causes of their specific vulnerabilities.

We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realized through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organizations like War Child, governments, and key decision-makers.

Your Challenge

We are looking for an experienced, and forward-thinking Campaigns and Media Manager to join the War Child Alliance Communications team to help deliver high-level collaborative comms, campaigns and media management to drive our global goals, vision and mission.

Reporting to the Head of Communications, you will engage with key stakeholders from across the Alliance membership to devise and execute global campaign moments, deliver newsworthy hooks and stories and drive coverage within international media around our global programme, scaling and advocacy work.

Your Responsibilities

Emergency comms leadership

Operate as global comms lead in the event of emergency responses (such as the outbreak or escalation of conflicts or the advent of natural disasters affecting children in conflict zones), attending response management team meetings, leading on response comms strategy development, and coordinating message and content development and approval for all Alliance members as needed.

Campaign management

Coordinate the input of the Global Head of Advocacy and comms colleagues from across the Alliance membership to develop comms campaign strategies that will help realise the Alliance’s advocacy objectives
Translate complex policy and advocacy concepts and language into the intelligible, inspiring messaging needed to mobilise a variety of audiences in support of our advocacy objectives
Support Alliance members by identifying a diversity of news and stories from War Child programmes and interventions that have the potential to be of interest to their fundraising efforts, donor engagement and media outreach
Work with the comms teams of War Child Alliance members to devise and deliver collaborative comms campaign moments that help further our advocacy and scaling objectives
Work with fundraising colleagues to identify and develop opportunities for the involvement of War Child’s corporate partners, ambassadors and other high profile supporters in our campaigns
Work with comms colleagues from across the Alliance membership to generate timely and topical campaign content for use across the social channels and websites of War Child Alliance members
Coordinate with the comms teams of Alliance members to ensure that we develop and maintain relationships with the comms and campaigns teams of fellow aid agencies, human rights organisations, and other potential partners with whom we can collaborate in pursuit of our advocacy objectives
Keep abreast of communications and social media developments, trends and technologies, exploring and recommending opportunities for War Child to utilise such trends to maximise campaign impact.

Media Management

Work closely with the comms teams of Alliance fundraising members (in the UK, Netherlands, US, Sweden and Germany) to provide news and media hooks, and ensure any/all advocacy-related or programmatic media outreach is coordinated with existing media plans within these markets
Look for opportunities to place media coverage in global/international media titles –- by generating moments or by monitoring the global media and news agenda for opportunities to provide reactive comments and quotes – that progress our advocacy, research and development and scaling objectives
Cultivate and maintain media lists and relationships with influential anglophone global media that could be used to further War Child Alliance’s advocacy objectives - including outlets such as CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Worldwide, and Al Jazeera English
Draft media plans, press releases, statements, briefings and other media materials for as needed

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post.

Your Profile

Experience of crisis communications and campaigns
Sound knowledge of global affairs (essential), with experience working within the humanitarian or human rights sector in a media or campaigns role (preferable)
Experience of developing and implementing campaign and media strategies
Excellent writing skills, with experience of drafting high quality campaign messaging, press releases, quotes, articles and social media posts
Excellent knowledge of the international media landscape, with a demonstrable ability to develop and maintain a network of strong contacts within that landscape
Significant experience of securing impactful media coverage in support of advocacy objectives
Existing strong contacts within International media covering issues pertinent to the work of War Child
Experience of preparing charity spokespersons for media interview (preferable)
Experience of using a variety of social media channels for campaign purposes
Able to self-manage, work flexibly and as part of a team
Fluency in English (essential), with a working knowledge of another language (Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Spanish or Swedish) preferable

Our offer

Package dependent on location
A 40 hour working week with flexible working opportunities
Excellent benefits.
Possibility of hybrid working
Opportunities for development.
A range of well- being activities.
The role is based in a country where War Child has an office and colleague presence

Our Organisation

War Child is a dynamic organization. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our offices, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused, and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child Alliance offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.

Child safeguarding

Our work with children to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children in all areas of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, which you can read here: How War Child upholds Integrity | War Child

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before May 10th 2024. Make sure to upload your English CV (maximum of two pages) and cover letter here:

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Safeguarding

War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.

Equal opportunity

War Child has a dream that every child lives in peace - no matter who or where they are. That’s why we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity and belonging in everything we do and select our potential new colleagues without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Application process

To ensure that we spend as much of our resources on the support of children and youth, War Child needs to operate as efficiently as possible. This means we can only process job applications received through our websites.

If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, the vacancy will be removed from our websites. In this case, any responses received after removal will not be processed. Sometimes the closing date of a vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.

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