About CorpsAfrica:
Founded in 2011, CorpsAfrica provides the opportunity for Africans to serve as volunteers in their own countries, along the lines of the Peace Corps model. We train  university educated young Africans and send them to live for up to one year in rural, high-poverty communities to facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects that are identified by local people. CorpsAfrica aims to promote a culture of public service in Africa by giving participants the opportunity to apply their education, skills, and energy toward helping their fellow citizens overcome extreme poverty. www.corpsafrica.org

CorpsAfrica has steadily expanded operations from Morocco to Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa and the Gambia. Having successfully proven the power and effectiveness of the model, CorpsAfrica has begun to receive significant funding from large donors. As we reach a point of significant inflection leading to future expansion, we seek to add motivated, capable, and highly effective staff to our team.
 

OVERVIEW OF THE POSITION:

The Communications Officer is a full-time staff position with the primary responsibility of demonstrating and communicating CorpsAfrica’s efforts related to project impact, fundraising, marketing, and other areas as needed. This person will have a significant opportunity to help build the organization’s image brand and there is ample room for professional advancement.

Reports to: Country Director

Specific Responsibilities: 

• Facilitate the development and implementation of communications strategies that raise awareness, drive engagement, build support and have measurable impact with target audiences.
• Create compelling content that is optimized to reach target audiences across a range of platforms and channels.
• Draft and produce communications products, such as press releases, press statements, web stories, reports, and infographics.
• Utilize programmatic tools to build support, which include Volunteer logs/reports and Monitoring and Evaluation. 
• Serve as focal point and promote CorpsAfrica/SA with media, donors, and government authorities with clear messaging and communication materials.
• Maintain confidentiality, integrity, and discreet handling of sensitive information in compliance with the CorpsAfrica/SA data privacy, security requirements, and standards.
• Contribute to advising on public narratives to support decision-making and to steer the communications strategy.
• Provide insights and analysis based on the monitoring of traditional, social, and digital media, including on risks to information integrity such as trends in mis and disinformation. 

• Participate in the creation and management of compelling and relevant content for websites and social media channels, including live content, tailored for digital platforms to advance digital communications priorities and CorpsAfrica/SA work.
• Participate in the development of approaches to analyse, monitor, and report social media, web, and other digital content to measure results, inform content creation, and adjust ongoing initiatives.
• Develop strategic partnerships with social media influencers to elicit support for and maximize impact of digital campaigns, CorpsAfrica/SA brand visibility and promotion.
• Oversee development and maintenance of the organization’s website, ensuring it remains up-to-date, user-friendly, and accessible.
• Provide training and support to team members and Volunteers on communications measurement, digital media analytics tools, techniques, and best practices.

• Prepare communications plans for keeping staff informed and engaged in CorpsAfrica objectives and initiatives, including change management and business continuity processes.
• In-collaboration with Philanthropy and Partnerships Officer, help establish and maintain a consistent organization image through events and fundraising activities. 
• Participate in organizing regular meetings and events, in cooperation with internal and Global Support Team, to keep staff informed and engaged with internal initiatives; moderate and present as required.

• Contribute to the coordination and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to develop and deliver joint outreach and advocacy activities to advance CorpsAfrica/SA priorities.

Added Responsibilities:

• Plan and design content for CorpsAfrica/SA official social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.  
• Generate and analyze reports (monthly/quarterly/half yearly) on web traffic and KPIs using Google Analytics, and other social media-focused analytics channels. 
• Actively engage with online audiences through social media channels. Timely responses to messages and comments, monthly reports on levels of engagement.
• Develop multimedia communications materials, including blog posts and social media content.
• Maintain digital media archives including photos and videos and maintain records of media coverage and collate analytics and metrics.
• Develop and maintain contact information and materials with journalists and media outlets (print, TV, radio, web, photo etc.)  
• Develop and archive communication materials, including digital, such as publications, press releases and clippings, photographs, audio-visual materials, web resources, etc.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in communications and/or Marketing and at least three years of professional experience 
• Skills in photography, videography design, copywriting
• Knowledge of design software i.e. CANVA, photoshop, illustrator etc.
• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• A passion and commitment to youth leadership, participatory community development, impact evaluation, transparency, and accountability.
• Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Time management skills.
• A demonstrable understanding of South African laws and the government administrations on data management and integrity.
• Fluency in English and two other South African languages is required. 
• A strong commitment to youth leadership, participatory community development, impact evaluation, transparency, and accountability.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, CorpsAfrica encourages applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability or any other legally protected basis.