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Job Title: Senior Communications Officer
Ref No: B014600
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Position Reports to: Deputy Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Nigeria.

Group Summary
The External Communications team helps advance the foundation’s global advocacy priorities through strategic communications while strengthening and protecting the foundation’s reputation.

The team is responsible for driving the foundation’s overarching communications strategy through targeted issue-specific and cross-cutting campaigns designed to reach and engage influencers.

We oversee editorial planning and develop strategies to optimize leadership voice, brand, and creative content through the foundation’s owned channels and earned media.

Position Summary
The primary responsibility of the Senior Communications Officer, Nigeria, is to develop and implement a coordinated and innovative communications and media strategy that will use a range of high-quality communications tactics , dissemination strategies, materials, specific events/initiatives; and creative tools, including social media to help achieve the foundation’s programmatic and advocacy goals in Nigeria.

This will be done in close collaboration with Nigeria-based leadership and staff, communications partners in the Gates Foundation’s Africa Regional and Seattle offices, program teams, and other policy and advocacy colleagues. It will also involve collaboration with a range of external foundation grantees and partners, including-given the Gates Foundation’s work with Nigeria’s government-government communications professionals at both federal and state levels.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works in close partnership with Nigeria’s federal and state governments, civil society, the private sector and development partners in support of the country’s development goals—particularly in Human Capital Development, Health, Agriculture, Digital Innovation and Data, Nutrition, Gender and Financial Services for the poor.

The Senior Communications Officer must be well-positioned to lead communications interventions that support the country program and will have a good understanding of reputation risk management.


Core Responsibilities

With leadership and staff colleagues, develop and implement a Nigeria communications strategy that deploys foundation assets (e.g., grants and contracts, leadership voice, convening ability, staff time) in support of the Gates Foundation’s strategy and its programmatic, policy and financing goals.

Work internally with Abuja-based, regional, and global program partners and communications colleagues to align strategies, gather information and lead on communications projects, including managing partners and consultants to work on communication work.
Work with internal partners – and lead investments in outside partners – to develop communication materials, events, and initiatives.
Collaborate with colleagues in the region and in Seattle to support the foundation’s advocacy goals and corporate communications priorities, including dissemination of the foundation’s flagship campaigns and publications.

Lead and manage communications and media engagements of executive and foundation leadership visits to the country(primarily the Nigeria Country Director, but potentially including Co-chairs, CEO, Division Presidents and other Directors visiting Nigeria).

Build and maintain relationships with Nigerian media partners, and communications partners at other relevant government, donor, and civil society organizations in Nigeria – in coordination with internal foundation communications colleagues.

Work closely with the global External Communications team, the Africa Communications team, the Program Advocacy, and Communications team, and Program Strategy teams to coordinate and prioritize the foundation’s use of voice in Nigeria.

Potentially represent the foundation and the Nigeria program to internal and external audiences, including both formal and informal presentations – explaining the foundation’s priority issues, policies and operational goals, making speeches, attending conferences and other meetings as necessary.

Lead project development, coordination and post-production activities of specific communications initiatives.

Drive strategic insights to ensure that communications strategies are aligned with the broader foundation and advocacy objectives.

Risk Management:

monitor perceptions, track shifts in opinion and respond to inquiries while providing and updating key facts about the foundation’s priority issues.

Identify opinion leaders and influential organizations in Nigeria at national and states levels and guide a strategy for engagement.

Education and Experience
Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in relevant field; Communications, English, Journalism, Literature, Public Relations, Political Science or other relevant area of study.
At least 7+ years of progressive experience to include senior and leadership roles, or equivalent experience in relevant fields including marketing, PR, media, and communications, public policy or international relations.
Senior level roles held working in non-profit/public health or development, government, communications agency, or private sector organization is strongly preferred.
Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The External Communications team helps advance the foundation’s global advocacy priorities through strategic communications while strengthening and protecting the foundation’s reputation.

If they are truly doing selfless philanthropy, why are they concerned about any fall out that may affect their reputation?

The team is responsible for driving the foundation’s overarching communications strategy through targeted issue-specific and cross-cutting campaigns designed to reach and engage influencers.

Whoever gets this job will be shelling money on our retinue of jobless Twitter, Facebook and Nairaland shills for hire

The primary responsibility of the Senior Communications Officer, Nigeria, is to develop and implement a coordinated and innovative communications and media strategy that will use a range of high-quality communications tactics , dissemination strategies, materials, specific events/initiatives; and creative tools, including social media to help achieve the foundation’s programmatic and advocacy goals in Nigeria.

You claim to want to save lives through vaccination, why then do you need an effective propaganda machinery to convince people to accept it?

The Senior Communications Officer must be well-positioned to lead communications interventions that support the country program and will have a good understanding of reputation risk management.

So they are aware that their reputation is under scrutiny due to their several scandalous malpractices and crimes against humanity since they began their satanic philanthropy.

Risk Management:

monitor perceptions, track shifts in opinion and respond to inquiries while providing and updating key facts misinformation about the foundation’s priority issues

They need to keep the lie going no matter all the dirt that gets uncovered.

So in this vain, whoever gets this job will be another Lai Mohammed

Guys should go and chop their money, and subvert their genocidal plans in the process

imhotep:
Guys should go and chop their money, and subvert their genocidal plans in the process

Don't be surprised that Reno Omokri has been lobbying Ngozi Iweala for this job. That is why he is calling us Covidiots for refusing to fall for Bill Gates' vaccine scam.

kikero the kike lover

LeOstrich:
kikero the kike lover

Hmm, Odb2, aka OK2NVME is that you?

By Gates' and Fauci's beards!

I'm flattered you think I am worthy of my lord Gates as his town crier, but regrettably I am otherwise employed thank you.

Mynd44, at least you should have hide this topic in Career section nah.


Censorer!

What shall it profit a man f he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul?

No let money go let you be devil recruit o.

boyjo:
What shall it profit a man f he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul?

No let money go let you be devil recruit o.

How old are you?