Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.
Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Purpose:

The Communications Manager’s primary role is to lead communications-related activities for International Medical Corps in Afghanistan while creating and implementing the communications strategy, gathering and generating content, exploring visibility opportunities and developing effective communication resources through coordination with different departments.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design the communications and visibility plans and budgets for all active grants.
• Contribute to proposals by designing communications and visibility plans and budgets.
• Manage the communications and visibility budget lines for all active grants.
• Manage the relationships with different colleagues in the country mission and at HQ level.
• Manage a calendar of donor communications deliverables, ensuring that it is accessible to program and communications colleagues.
• Oversee the creation of engaging communications and media materials, such as stories, photos, videos, infographics, newsletters, brochures and other communications products. This will include creating the content and suggesting the communications format for it.
• Participate in public outreach and awareness initiatives, including media relations and outreach (cultivating relationships with reporters, pitching stories, responding to requests, etc.), working closely with field teams.
• Support executive communications efforts, including speeches, talking points and presentations.
• Coordinate with all field teams and work closely with them on all field activities and site visits whenever needed.
• Visit the field sites regularly to gather photos, write success and human-interest stories, working closely with the field teams.
• Coordinate with and manage external vendors, such as agencies and independent filmmakers and photographers.
• Manage the relationships with suppliers, in coordination with the logistics department, including finding new suppliers in the market, raising work orders and requests for quotations, following up on payments and finalizing contracts.
• Manage the archiving of all communications materials.
• Manage the implementation and design of social media plans.
• Update and manage shared folders, including story and photo/video files and country-related fact sheets.
• Ensure consistent branding, in line with donor visibility guidelines.
• Manage the communications-related efforts of other country staff, and coach them on best practices while building their capacity.
• Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence:
• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.
Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:
• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.
Compliance & Ethics:
• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity
Safeguarding:
• It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons.

Qualifications:

Essential: Typically, a Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism or another relevant discipline is required.

Desirable: Advanced degree a plus. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Experience:

Typically, 7+ years of relevant and progressive experience working in corporate communications in a dynamic, fast- paced, high-volume work environment.

Competency:

Essential:

- Excellent communication skills (oral & written) in Dari / Pashto / English.
- Ability to work successfully and effectively as part of a team, as well as independently, in a multicultural and participatory environment.
- Solid computer skills, including the Microsoft Office suite. Familiarity with the design and production process.
- Experience working with NGOs working in the humanitarian or development field is desirable.
- Proven experience in people management.
- Excellent copyediting and proofreading skills; able to interpret and simplify technical language to adapt it for a wide range of audiences.
- Excellent research, interviewing and writing skills; adept at writing clean, engaging copy under deadline pressure.

Desirable:

Skills in working on photo and video editing software is a plus.

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

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Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

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Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran