Position: Social Media and Content Manager

Location:  Global Secretariat hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, or any hosting ActionAid country office S

Contract duration:  Permanent

Entry Salary:  Grade D, starting from £40,273.00 Gross salary per annum

Closing date:  24 February 2025

The Role:

The Social Media and Content Manager is responsible for developing and implementing engaging content strategies that enhance ActionAid International’s online presence and drive audience engagement across social media platforms. This role plays a crucial part in amplifying the organization’s mission, campaigns, and values through compelling storytelling and multimedia content, and in building long term social media alliances with social movements.

The Manager, in collaboration with other GS and members’ colleagues, will create, curate, and manage content across various digital channels, ensuring alignment with ActionAid’s branding and communication objectives. They will also monitor social media trends and audience insights to optimize content performance, engage with followers, and build a strong online community. This position requires creativity, excellent communication skills, and a passion for social justice and community empowerment.

The role also proactively coordinates the digital/social engagement plans of ActionAid teams across member countries of the AAI Federation, informing, sharing, amplifying and aligning online assets across relevant channels.
The role will work closely with the Leadership Public Engagement and Stories & Projects roles and with other Federation colleagues and Global Platforms members active in social media to effectively articulate visible and engaging global actions.

Who we’re looking for:

You should also have a strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

Please see further information in the job description.

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

• A workplace that embraces feminist principles
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay

How to apply:

Please click on the “apply” button to start the application process:

Applications close at 23.59 GMT on Monday, 24 February 2025. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a covering letter clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile .

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us:

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression.  We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty.

All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:  Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance against discrimination and abuse of power.

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity.

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

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