The Gender and Communication Assistant will manage the implementation of the project communication and gender mainstreaming strategy, aiming to promote Women’s Land for peace. The role involves developing tailored communication plans, coordinating with local teams, and monitoring and evaluating strategy effectiveness. Through a gender Lense, responsibilities include managing stakeholder relationships, overseeing content creation and distribution, and preparing progress reports. This position supports the project’s objectives of enhancing organizational capacities to catalyze women’s pathways for peace in mitigating conflict and ensuring gender transformative Land Natural Resource Management (NRM) through success stories and creating networking platforms to foster collaboration and growth.
About you
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, International Development, Communications, or a related field. Experience in gender mainstreaming, peacebuilding, advocacy, or development projects. Proven experience in communications, including content creation, advocacy messaging, and digital media management. Strong writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into compelling content.
Skills & Competencies
Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, including community stakeholders, government agencies, and partners. Strong analytical skills for gender and policy analysis. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, social media platforms, and content management systems. Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities. Willingness to travel frequently within Sierra Leone and occasionally internationally.
Competency questions
Please demonstrate your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions. In each answer, please give details of: the context of your scenario, your task and responsibility, your considerations and actions, the results of your actions.
Build Partnership
Tell us about a time when you had to actively consult with others to ensure you understand their needs or goals.
Stewardship of resources
Please tell us about a time when you recognised that time is a resource and take responsibility and proactive measures for managing your time effectively.
Deliver Results
Please tell us about a time when you used logical processes and relevant tools and techniques to report on information or analyse options.
Further information
At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and reconise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.
We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams.
We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths and none (with the exception of Director positions where there is a genuine occupational requirement to be a practicing Christian – Exempted under the Equality Act 2010).
All successful candidates will require social media, DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process 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 their understanding of these recruitment procedures”
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