Communication Officer

WINGS: Elevating philanthropy WINGS is a network of philanthropy development and support organisations committed to ensuring philanthropy reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. Our growing community of thought leaders and changemakers includes more than 180 member organisations across 58 countries. Our goal is to encourage collaboration and ignite potential — to rally philanthropic actors everywhere to build a more just, equitable, and healthy world and support the achievement of the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.

We work in three impact areas which, together, offer the greatest potential for creating lasting systemic change: Collective intelligence; Strengthening ecosystems; Advocacy and policy. Job Summary WINGS is looking for a Communication Officer to join our growing team during this exciting time of expansion for our organisation. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates anywhere in the world.

Requirements

•  Minimum of 5 years of professional working experience in communication, media or journalism
• Excellent written English (first language English speaker preferred)
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience in writing content for social media channels
• Experience working with all social media channels and other digital platforms
• Basic website management experience
• Experience in managing mailing lists and using Mailchimp
• Basic design skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Working experience in or an understanding of philanthropy and civil society Responsibilities
• Social media: writing, editing and posting content for all social media channels
• Co-ordinating and drafting newsletter content
• Writing, editing and posting website content
• Basic design of social media posts
• Coordinating the production of communication products
• Disseminating communication products
• Organising online events
• Assisting with a variety of other communication tasks

Details

• Duration: contract of 1 year length with possibility of extension

How to apply

To be considered, please submit your CV and a covering letter that includes your compensation expectations and one link or copy of a writing sample by email to Rafaela Sanches at [email protected] by 9 June 2021 at 10h00 UTC. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview and requested to undertake written exercises. Ideally, the successful candidate will start on 1 July 2021.