KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Internal and External Communications

• Supporting the implementation of the Area level and Country-wide communications plan and framework for Ukraine, including ensuring coordination with awards on budgeting for communications activities.
• Work closely with Area Office programs teams and partner organizations to support initiatives to build Save the Children’s brand awareness in communities and to enhance our acceptance.
• Collaborate with advocacy and policy and communications colleagues to ensure core messaging is promoted and consistent with the advocacy and policy strategies and the Ukraine communications pack.
• Work with the Country Office team to ensure programs teams and partner organizations have relevant guidance, resources and materials for visibility, in line with and Save the Children’s brand guidelines.
• Lead on coordination of key info-comms deliverables, providing input to the communication materials on behalf of the area office, including updates to the comms pack and other deliverables as requested.
• Work with programs to deliver communications content from priority emergency responses
• Collect, analyze, and disseminate critical information relating to an emergency situation and the Save the Children response in order to support Save the Children’s ability to drive media, fundraise, campaign and advocate.
• Make recommendations to Area response team on communications and media plans aligned with and coordinated with the advocacy strategy. Work with the CO Media Manager to be a focal point of contact for media issues between Save the Children Area Office. Support risk mitigation approaches during sensitive
  moments for media outreach.
• Help to deliver key moments on the Ukraine response as relevant, that bring together campaign, advocacy, media, communications and fundraising functions
• Act as a spokesperson for national and local media when needed

Campaigns

• In collaboration and support from relevant CO functions, support the plan for area level campaigns and influencing as part of the overall advocacy strategy, involving partners, technical experts, and other actors where appropriate.
• Work proactively with Save the Children Ukraine partners on joint campaigns objectives and support partners to identify and address capacity strengthening opportunities, both for partners and wider civil society in Ukraine.
• Support a strong power analysis of the relevant actors and where opportunities for influence and leverage lie to inform the national campaigning strategy.
• Ensure coordination and engagement across all departments to deliver on the strategic objectives.
• Providing regular updates to relevant teams as campaigns progresses.
• Train national partners on campaigns and support them in development of their strategies. Support program teams with campaigns training, and feedback on campaigns products/deliverables. Enhance humanitarian storytelling and drive innovation in Ukraine
• Determine and seek ways to creatively communicate Save the Children’s value proposition in emergence and action change in process where necessary
• Accurately represent community needs and experiences– creating packages of communications materials and multimedia
• Support communications capacity building in the country
• Support and drive Save the Children’s global strategy, Ambition 2030, in order to increase Save the Children’s sophistication in humanitarian communications
• Where possible, track members use of materials and emergency content and evaluate success Oversee the delivery of Multimedia Assets in the Area Office
• Commission and collect compelling case studies in East Ukraine and, where possible, undertake photography and videography to accompany these compelling case studies.
• Facilitate film commissions/freelancers, and produce/deliver creative products. Liaise closely with the film team and the Ops team to ensure coordination of film commissions are managed appropriately on the ground and that assets are shared quickly and also stored within a program.
• Ensure that multimedia commissions are fundraising-appropriate for key member markets, and speaks to Save the Children’s brand.
• Social media: lead innovative communications from the field, using different platforms to reach wider audiences and directly engage supporters in our work.
• Oversee and produce content to meet global media and fundraising objectives and produce additional communication outputs for responses as required, coordinating closely with senior management teams on a response.
• Develop a clear work plan for media and campaigns related tasks
• Support with Partner capacity strengthening through kick off meetings, monitoring visits, training, and guidance notes

General

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice):

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow, and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.
• Invests time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realize their full potential, and to build the organization’s capability for the future.

Creativity:

• Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organization.
• Develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and uncertain global
  and working environments.
• Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organization.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
• Displays consistent excellent judgement.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• University Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience, such as digital communications / visual arts
• Experience of leading communication activities (including information management) in a challenging environment for at least two years
• Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of different audiences including donors, journalists and the ‘general public’.
• Experience delivering communications assets across multiple channels, including print, social, and digital
• Experience of effective spokespersoning across a range of media
• Excellent relationship building skills in order to work for limited periods within programs under pressure of running emergency responses
• An initiative-taking, proactive, inspiring attitude with the ability to manage and prioritize an unpredictable workload and solve problems quickly with limited support
• Experience of delivering training, presentations and other capacity building activities to varied audiences, ideally within a country programme.
• Strong influencing skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children.
• Experience working sensitively with vulnerable groups
• Language skills in English and Ukrainian

Desirable

• Experience of creating media products such as press releases
• Experience of writing effective proposals in emergency responses
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in East Ukraine and with an INGO

Equal Opportunities
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.