Summary of Role:
The Senior Strategic Communications Advisor serves as
the strategic advisor and counselor to the President of Africa, overseeing the
overall coordination, visibility, and facilitation of the communications
strategy execution for the region. The Advisor oversees Pathfinder Africa
brand, internal and external communications to elevate Pathfinder’s profile in
global health and development.
Responsibilities also include monitoring and
reporting on specific communications initiatives and projects within the
executive office to ensure alignment with Pathfinder’s strategy, commitments,
and goals. The Director plays a key role in fostering cross-departmental
relationships to support visibility success and partners closely with the
Africa leadership team to manage the Office of the President Africa, ensuring
efficient delivery of priorities.
Additionally, the Advisor will serve as the lead for
global social media collaborating with global, regional, and country teams to
implement existing strategies and effectively communicate Pathfinder’s vision
and agenda; and engage key stakeholders through the flagship social pages.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Communications and Global Social Media
Leadership and Management:
Heads the Africa communication team overseeing Africa
branding and internal and external communications to elevate the organization’s
profile in global health.
Oversees President’s communication strategy,
including developing briefing materials for meetings, trips, speaking
engagements, and donor related work, ensuring President is fully prepared for
external engagement.
Manages the development of talking points and
organizes cross- functional, organization-wide teams to create necessary
background materials on Pathfinder’s programmatic work and global public health
issues.
Collaborates and provides direction and advice to
Pathfinder country program teams on the appropriate and best fit communications
content and tactics in meeting their positioning and profile-raising needs in
line with the existing communications and social media strategy.
Oversees social media working group and social media
contributors from across the organization to ensure representation of
Pathfinder countries, projects, issues, and key priorities on Pathfinder’s
flagship social media channels.
Strategic Research:
Proactively exploring new opportunities and ideas for
increasing the impact of the programs’ work through communications, staying on
top of latest developments, news and research, and building connections with
other external individuals and organizations.
Acts as key broker between academic research teams
and policy influencing communications, helping to translate and make accessible
complex research outputs into engaging, policy influencing communication
tactics.
Works with Country Directors and Project Leads to
develop solutions and strategies for improving the reach of research outputs
through activity implementation and activity evaluation.
In consultation with the Country Directors and
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team, identify, develop, and
facilitate processes to generate, capture and apply the team’s learning to
ongoing programing and for future stabilization programing.
Thought Leader & Senior Team Member:
Manages the delivery of a thought leadership and
content pipeline/planner, identifying timely external hooks and moments, and
work with the Project Communications teams to produce content for these
(including publications, blog content, video, and other multimedia content, and
pitching and placement of external content with external editorial and media
sites).
Represents the President internally and externally,
acting as a liaison with key executives, staff, country offices, and external
stakeholders.
Serves as a project manager and implementer for
strategy within the President’s office, ensuring alignment with Pathfinder’s
overarching strategy.
Serves as a part of the senior leadership team
alongside other Division Leaders.
Fosters strong cross-departmental collaboration to
facilitate leadership success across all levels of Pathfinder Africa.
External Engagement:
Manages President’s external engagement participation
including interfacing with external organizations, stakeholders, and partners.
Organizes relevant internal stakeholders in
cross-functional, organization-wide teams to develop necessary items to advance
partnership creation.
Serves as an interlocutor to external organizations
and partners to advance strategic priorities.
Facilitates relationship building and management for
the President, including tracking priority relationships and developing
collateral materials for effective representation of Pathfinder and the
President.
Supports the President in all work around revenue
generation and enhancing visibility of Pathfinder in the region.
Crisis Management:
Develops plans for emergence standard process for
managing crisis and works with Group Leadership Team to address the specifics
of an emergency.
Required Education and Work Experience:
Bachelor’s and ten (10) years of experience, or
master’s and seven (7+) years of relevant
At least three (3) years of advanced experience
supporting C-Level Executives.
At least three (3) years of proven work experience
working with global staff and matrixed organizations.
Proven work experience utilizing excellent management
skills and collaborative leadership approach with excellent strategic thinking
analytical, influencing and project management skills.
English written and oral language skills.
Advanced skills in organizing meetings, assisting
with travel and hotel accommodations, and providing general office operations
support for meetings, such as preparing minutes and
Advanced Skills in developing, monitoring, managing,
and reporting on budgets.
Foundational knowledge of research methods for
papers, reports, speeches, and other documentation
Advanced skills in drafting and editing written
materials used for reports, speeches, and related documents.
Advanced ability to plan and manage cross functional
Project planning to fulfill performance objectives, including timely
implementation and reporting.
Mastery of negotiation and influencing, through
written and spoken
Preferred Competence and Work Experience:
Advanced experience supporting C-Level Executives
working with a non-profit organization or INGO.
Three (3) years of experience working with a
non-profit organization or INGO.
French and Portuguese oral and written language
skills is an advantage.
Other Information:
Technology to be Used:
Uses cellular and office phone, laptop, or desktop
computer.
Travel Requirements:
Travel required (30% or less)
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