Department: BBC Media Action

Grade: 7

Reports To: Senior Project Manager

Based: Kathmandu with possible travel to field locations

Duration: Up to 31 December 2019 (possibility of extension subject to funding)

Job Purpose

The Communication and Stakeholder Liaison will support the delivery of the project by engaging with government agencies, technical experts, civil society organizations, and the media to ensure complementarity, coordination as well as efficiency and effectiveness. Using high quality communication as the medium, the post holder will identify information gaps, share information priorities, and feedback to the project team.

Main Duties

• Develop and maintain relationships with key government agencies, I/NGO, civil society groups, development partners, research organizations, and local contacts in BBC Media Action Nepal working areas to ensure that the project activities/programmes are coordinated fully
• Strategic planning to align communications strategy to the organisational goals
• Coordinate the production of internal and external communications, assists in the sub-editing and proof reading of communication products including but not limited to success stories, photographs, video and social media
• In accordance with the programme team, prepare project newsletters and case studies
• Assist in coordinating communication activities and events of the organisation
• Take the lead in dissemination of project communication to donors and relevant stakeholders
• Provide support to the Senior Project Manager in ensuring that programmatic outputs are in line with BBC Media Action editorial values
• Ensure that the BBC Media Action team has up-to-date, relevant information on the developing retrofitting context and responses from other agencies
• Share relevant findings of BBC Media Action research and audience feedback with external parties
• Liaise with media partners operating throughout Nepal
• Provide communication advisory assistance to partner organizations if and when requested
• Hold stakeholder meetings, as and when required
• Support internal and external communication including one through social media
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Project Manager.

Essential skills and experience

• Substantial experience of managing relationships and coordinating with, government representatives, civil society groups, and/or media partners
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social development, Media and Mass Communication or relevant field. Master’s degree is desirable, however, not a requirement
• Knowledge of and experience with media production, communication and dissemination techniques and methods
• Prior experience of working in creative communication agencies will be an added advantage
• Experience of working in multicultural professional environments
• Adaptable to changing circumstances and organisational needs
• High analytical skills and able to represent the views and values of BBC Media Action
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience managing relationships with aid agencies, government bodies, media and other relevant stakeholders

Key competencies:

The following competencies (behaviours and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate these competencies.

• Imagination/Creative Thinking: Is able to transform creative ideas/impulses into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
• Managing Relationships: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Team working
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information
• Analytical Thinking: Able to simplify complex problems, process projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able to identify causal relationships and construct frameworks, for problem solving and/or development
• Influencing and Persuading: Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince
• others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
• Planning and Organising: Is able to think ahead in order to establish an effective and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements
• Self-Development: Able to identify and apply opportunities for learning and development