Roles and Responsibilities:
· The External Affairs Officer contributes to planning, development, and implementation of effective communications and outreach strategies to support the WBG’s corporate, internal, and operational priorities, using the full range of modern communications tools including social media, digital publishing, and multi-media production. It is critical that the External Affairs Officer be equipped to gauge risks associated with complex projects and to design and implement strategies to minimize those risks. The External Affairs Officer will report to the ECRAW Manager based in Washington D.C., but work on day to day under the supervision of the the Senior External Affairs Officer and the Country Management Unit based in Abuja.
His/her specific duties and accountabilities include:
· Strategies: Responsible for relevant portions of planning, design, and implementation of strategies to promote effective communications with external and internal audiences on World Bank-financed operations, research products, and campaigns. Helps determine the most effective content and communications interventions to address challenges.
· Outreach and Engagement: Collaboratively plan and execute outreach and engagement activities around key priority areas. This entails launch of flagship reports, outreach to external groups to ensure knowledge is well disseminated and visible across multiple channels that includes the World Bank website and social media channels.
· Products: Produce a range of written products on the World Bank's operational goals, results, and knowledge. Outputs range from traditional press releases and Op-Eds to web features, brochures, Q&As, briefing notes, and speeches. Responsible for updating the World Bank's internal and external websites for the country.
· Youth engagement: Facilitate collaboration and structured engagement with youth groups focused on World Bank priority areas to ensure youth voices are well reflected in initiatives supported by the World Bank. Ensure that global and regional youth initiatives such as the blog4dev and youth chapters are well publicized and active at the country level etc.
Selection Criteria
· Master’s degree with minimum 5 years of experience in a relevant discipline (communication, journalism, international affairs or other related fields)
· Understanding of the humanitarian, development and security context in Nigeria.
· Excellent written and spoken command English, and the ability to convey complex ideas in a creative, clear, direct, and lively style
· Proven knowledge of visual communications principles and fluency with design software.
· Strong understanding and experience with digital content and social media analytics.
· Strong writing skills; ability with minimum supervision to prepare and edit simple online communication products and develop drafts of moderately complex products in a clear, concise, and web-friendly style.
· Acute eye for detail.
· Understands project management concepts sufficiently to propose and develop drafts of online communications plans and strategies with minimal supervision; can apply standard project ·management tools, methodologies, and processes; is able to identify and mitigate project risks as well as manage project issues.
· Experience working in an international organization and on development issues.
· In-depth knowledge of international trends and political/economic issues related to development
· Strong diplomatic, interpersonal, and teamwork skills; sensitivity to working in a multicultural environment.
The candidate will also be expected to have the following competencies:
· Communication Strategy and Execution in International Development: Demonstrates a working proficiency to lead the planning, development, and execution of a communication strategy for moderately complex projects. Leads research efforts to identify and map project stakeholders or intended audiences; leads media and audience outreach, identifying audience needs. Independently implements communication strategies for moderately complex projects and can use feedback from evaluation tools to strengthen programs. Helps others develop this competency. A key skill in this area will be the adoption of digital strategies and marshalling of social marketing techniques to respond to the online communications environment that is increasingly embraced by Nigerian audiences.
· Broad Business Thinking: Capable of distilling an in-depth understanding of the long-term implications of decisions, both for Nigeria and for the World Bank. Involves the key players in identifying operational needs, challenges and immediate solutions. Ensures that decisions are supported by relevant stakeholders and can explain the business case for decisions.
· Client Understanding and Advising: Looks at issues from the citizen’s perspective and advocates for citizens. Works with others across the VPU to define client needs and develop the best approaches to meet them. Asks probing questions to understand unmet needs. Focuses on achieving sustainable results for clients and proposes solutions to mitigate risks.
· Content Development and Editing: Takes full responsibility for the development of content for dissemination. Can ensure the development of communications products meeting WBG standards on structure, clarity, quality, and persuasiveness etc.
Location: Abuja
Duration: Two years
Application Closing Date: 10th May, 2022
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