Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
The Role
TEAM PURPOSE: To maximise coverage of Oxfam’s programme and campaign messages in Jordan by supporting the development and delivery of effective information and communication material contributing to Oxfam’s overall influencing strategy.
JOB PURPOSE: The communications officer will assist the media and communications team’s efforts to maximize Oxfam in Jordan exposure, and help develop, and deliver the organization’s messages and campaigns.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
The following responsibilities are not exhaustive. They aim to provide a clear sense of the nature and scope of jobs at this grade:
- May involve supervision and guidance of assistants or volunteers.
- Manages own workload without close supervision and works independently on making decisions and problem solving on routine issues/problems.
- Provides creative/innovative solutions to routine problems/tasks and projects.
- Forward planning and management of small projects or elements of large projects.
- Providing advice on appropriate communications skills across the organisation.
- Impact of this role is significant within the departments and may have wider, organizational impact
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To regularly generate high quality communications materials based on Oxfam’s Economic
Justice, Climate Justice and Gender Justice programmes in Jordan.
- This includes developing digital material and social media material regularly, gathering and writing stories, producing outreach material and programme visibility material when needed.
- Ensuring compliance with Oxfam's and donors' visibility guidelines for all communication products
- To produce material in both Arabic and English, providing translation where/when needed.
- To work with programme teams, local partner organisations, to support the development and following up on visibility and communications plans for projects
- To regularly visit project sites and partner organisations in the field to ensure a direct link between programme work and produced material.
- Provide basic graphic design work as needed by programmes and project teams.
- Maintain archives of communications and media products and clippings.
- Flexibility to work outside regular office hours is required
What we are looking for
Our next Communications Officer will require:
Essentials
For this role, you will need to model Oxfam’s feminist leadership approach so we have selected the most relevant feminist leadership practices which we will use for assessment purposes (which you can read more about here):
- Self-Awareness
- Systems Thinking
- Relationship Building
In addition, an ideal candidate will also have:
- Minimum 4 years of experience working in communications or related fields, preferably in a media environment.
- Strong writing skills, both in Arabic and English.
- Strong organizational and personal management skills, with ability to priorities work issues to meet deadlines.
- Strong social media skills (e.g. Facebook/Twitter/blogs)
- Proven basic skills in photography, filming and video editing
- Proven skills in use of digital tools for content creation and editing (e.g. Adobe package)
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop and maintain relationships
- Good analytical, conceptual and creative thinking skills with good strategic perspective, able to understand complex issues and information from different sources and present this clearly and simply
- Ability to work creatively, effectively and in an innovative manner and to identify and develop new ways to use the media to Oxfam’s advantage.
Key Attributes:
- Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
- Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
- Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Desirable
- University degree in communications, journalism, international development or related fields
- Intellectually curious and has a strong potential to grow professionally in the field of communications and media
- Knowledge and skills in following areas; public campaigning and communication, media landscape in Jordan
Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks). You can find out what this means here.
Flexfam
We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as a partially home-based role or job share.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How to apply
As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
A thriving diverse Oxfam:
It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.
To do that:
- We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
- We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
- We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.
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