Global Media Manager (Disasters)

Please ensure you apply for this role using this link – https://app.beapplied.com/apply/pxnftbi4nd , please do not apply via the Plan International job’s board.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

As the Global Media Manager (Disasters) you will be responsible for co-ordinating global media engagement and positioning Plan International as a leading humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation. You will lead global media responses during disasters and emergencies, providing strategic direction to the organisation’s communications, including international deployment when required. As well as dealing directly with media, the Global Media Manager creates compelling content and messaging for use by Plan International’s network of communicators, which will require being able to work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple offices, backgrounds and functions.

In this role you will be expected up to 25% of the time, sometimes at short notice, to join emergency responses.  When on deployment, work is demanding, involving long days, travel and subsistence in often challenging circumstances.

About you

• Substantial experience working in journalism, media relations or PR at an international level

• Proven experience of managing media during humanitarian emergencies

• Track record of developing and delivering high-impact media strategies, shifting narratives and opinions and driving tangible change

• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English, with ability to quickly turn technical information into compelling copy

• Ability to lead and project manage teams across different offices and functions, including coaching colleagues to improve editorial content

• Ability to work quickly under pressure, including in insecure and sometimes distressing contexts, while motivating and supporting colleagues to do the same

• Ability to persuade, lobby and influence peers and colleagues and form productive relationships and contacts

• Demonstrable experience in safeguarding an organisation’s reputation, including crisis communications

• Ability to tailor communications to different audiences and channels, including media, social media and digital

• Strong understanding of humanitarian and development issues and rights-based work

• Experience of working with people at all levels in a multi- cultural / global environment

• Work on own initiative with strong organisational skills, to manage a wide and varied workload

• Work enthusiastically as part of a team and form effective and constructive working relationships across the whole organisation and wider network within sector

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Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. You may be office, home or hybrid based.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions. 

Grade: GH 4 or equivalent. Please note that employment terms will be as per the standard terms and conditions in the country where you are based. 

Closing Date: 8th March 2023 

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from 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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.