Communications Officer at Kakenya’s Dream

Responsibilities

• Write, edit, and distribute content to promote Kakenya’s Dream brand, products and activities.
• Implement communication campaigns and strategies.
• Collect content for the organization’s social media pages, blog, website, newsletters, and other communication channels.
• Create graphics and other design materials for social media.
• Maintain digital media archives - photos, videos, and audios.
• Develop a sizable creative content bank (extra profiles, interviews, blogs, photos, videos, etc.) for future use as needed.
• In collaboration with the communication team members, prepare communications budgets.
• In collaboration with the communication manager, respond to media inquiries.
• Ensure all marketing and communication materials conform to the organization’s brand standards.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in communications, journalism, or related field
• Two or more years’ experience in website, email, and social media communications.
• Strong demonstrated English writing and editing skills.
• Strong photography and videography experience with a DSLR camera.
• Ability to meet deadlines and turn quality article and story content around quickly.
• Strong interpersonal and interview skills and ability to draw compelling and meaningful quotes, stories, and general content from interview subjects.
• Experience retouching, resizing, and enhancing images as needed using Photoshop or a similar software.
• Experience capturing video footage and editing raw footage to create compelling, finished videos using Final Cut Pro or similar software.
• Experience creating graphics for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn using Adobe Creative Cloud applications (InDesign or Illustrator) or similar software.

Desired

• Experience in a nonprofit heavily dependent on fundraising.
• Experience with Adobe Create Cloud applications and Final Cut Pro video editing software is a plus.