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People & Internal Communications Manager at One Acre Fund, Nairobi, Kenya

One Acre Fund

People & Internal Communications Manager at One Acre Fund, Nairobi, Kenya

One Acre Fund

Full time Job

Date Posted: March 8, 2025

Application deadline:

Expired on: May 13, 2025 5:00pm

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Job description

Responsibilities

Senior leadership advisory/ Executive advising 

  • You’ll advise senior leaders (including the CEO, DEI Council, and People and HR leaders) on framing for complex issues, and prepare them as spokespeople.
  • You’ll provide intel on key staff issues and work with leaders to close the loops.

Staff engagement, Change management, and Organizational culture 

  • You will identify, and design campaign initiatives yearly focused on driving a positive staff experience in the organization (e.g. EVP, culture code drive, etc)
  • Working with various teams, you’ll identify and design strategic organizational/country-level major change initiatives.
  • You’ll plan the rollout of major change efforts, and develop nuanced messaging about complex and sensitive People topics
  • You will sit on key People Division working groups, identify emerging communications needs, and support People teams to coordinate staff outreach and speak with a unified voice.

Channels

  • You will lead the development, planning, and rollout of an intranet platform to drive an enhanced employee engagement experience throughout the organization
  • You will apply real-time data from a real-time intranet platform to drive content production for staff engagement

Team Management

  • You will manage the Internal Comms sub-unit.
  • You will oversee team professional development and advise on resourcing needs.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

  • A Bachelors Degree
  • Technical skills: Project/Program Management, Strategy, Messaging, Writing & Editing, Training, Stakeholder engagement, People & Team management, Risk management.
  • Knowledge: Background in International Development, Communications (or similar).
  • Excellent relationship and trust-building skills, with the ability to lead and influence across various levels of the org, especially with senior leaders.
  • Experience in project management around directing different teams and driving toward results across multiple initiatives simultaneously.
  • Exceptional, nuanced, clear, crisp communication with an ability to inspire a broad base/diverse staff base.
  • A high sense of collaboration, emotional intelligence, and comfort in a dynamic environment.
  • Strategic/creative thinking with exceptional storytelling skills.
  • Change management experience.

Application deadline:

Expired on: May 13, 2025

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