Regional Communications and Visibility Officer

The Regional Communications and Visibility Officer supports the implementation of communications and visibility activities across the MENA Early Childhood Development portfolio. The role involves storytelling, content collection, visibility materials, event coverage, and coordination with country, regional, and global communications colleagues to showcase program impact and achievements.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning, coordination, and implementation of communications and visibility activities across the regional ECD portfolio.
• Draft and edit blogs, human-interest stories, case studies, newsletters, talking points, press releases, and media materials in English and Arabic.
• Adapt communications content for digital and social media channels.
• Coordinate collection of photos, videos, testimonials, and other assets from country teams and partners, including through field visits and event attendance, ensuring timely submission against donor and content calendars.
• Maintain organized, tagged archives in Brandfolder and other content management platforms for reporting, donor engagement, and future use.
• Serve as the primary coordination point between the regional ECD portfolio team and country communications focal points, supporting them in identifying communications opportunities.
• Facilitate sharing of products and lessons learned across country, regional, and global teams, and identify opportunities to amplify regional ECD portfolio achievements.
• Ensure safeguarding, consent, and IRC/donor branding compliance across all communications materials and assets, coordinating sign-off on branded items as needed.
• Act as day-to-day focal point for communications, photography, videography, and content production vendors, including external consultants and agencies, tracking deliverables, timelines, and quality standards.
• Support visibility activities across regional and country programs, including event communications packages and on-site visibility support.
• Maintain communications trackers, content calendars, and visibility monitoring tools, and support donor and project reporting requirements.
• Provide day-to-day communications support to the Regional Policy, Advocacy and Communications Lead and the wider regional ECD portfolio team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Media, Marketing, International Development or a related field; previous experience in an NGO in a similar role is a plus.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in communications, media, public relations, storytelling, journalism, or related fields.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic is required.
• Strong storytelling and case study writing and editing skills, with the ability to identify strong stories and adapt communication style to different audiences.
• Experience collecting and developing human-interest stories, interviews and beneficiary testimonials.
• Experience coordinating communications activities across multiple stakeholders and locations.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience working with photography, videography and content management processes; knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Brandfolder, Box, SharePoint or similar content management systems.
• Experience in humanitarian, development, education or early childhood development programs is highly desirable.
• Work-related travel within the MENA region (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), up to 30%, is expected.

Skills

• Storytelling
• Case Study Writing
• Content Editing
• Human-Interest Story Collection
• Interviewing
• Beneficiary Testimonial Development
• Communication Coordination
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Photography
• Videography
• Content Management
• Adobe Premiere
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• InDesign
• Brandfolder
• Box
• SharePoint Development
• Public Relations
• Media Relations
• Event Coverage
• Bilingual Communication

Languages

English, Arabic