Communications Officer (Horn & East Africa) Job – Catholic Agency for Overseas Development

The CAFOD Media and Public Relations (PR) team is looking for a proactive communicator with the skills to drive CAFOD’s media, advocacy and communications objectives.
You will be passionate about global justice, advocacy and development issues, and the role media can play in helping achieve change and will have at least three years experience of communications or media work and excellent written and oral skills.
You will have experience of working with journalists, briefing and pitching stories to them and working with communities to enable them to tell their stories.
Strong photography and audio visual skills would be useful as well as a good understanding of how social media can be used effectively to promote CAFOD’s work and reach out to new audiences.
You will have an understanding of the role of the Catholic Church in development, advocacy and humanitarian work and the challenges it faces.
CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) is one of the UK’s leading aid agencies working in over 40 countries around the world to improve the lives of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people.
To read more and apply, please visit cafod.org.uk/jobs by the closing date.
Closing date:  05 Jun 2011

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