External Relations & Communications Consultancy at Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

Purpose of the position

• DNDi’s External Relations and Communications teams are looking for a part-time consultant who is a communications generalist with fundraising experience and superb writing skills to provide support to the Innovation for Children programme.
• In coordination with the External Relations and Communications teams, the consultant will provide communications strategy, planning, and plan execution on DNDi’s Innovation for Children programme, which is working to develop better medicines for children to fill urgent treatment gaps.

Terms of reference

This is a part-time consultancy (approx. 2 days/week) from September 2023 to December 2024. The terms of reference is as follows:

• Develop a communications strategy and plan for the Innovation for Children programme, including digital campaign(s) linked to key milestones/dates and media

Content assessment:

• Review DNDi’s film and photography archive to identify children-related content covering diseases and regions of interest, and create a children-related content library in the digital asset management platform.
• Identify content gaps to inform planning for additional content collection.
• Review and develop captions.

Video:

• Plan a series of short video interviews or statements filmed using phones for social media
• Provide input to messaging for a short film.

Social media:

• Draft content for campaigns and develop “evergreen” content

Media:

• Draft press releases as needed
• Draft pitches to journalists and target media

Slide deck:

• Develop slide deck to be used for fundraising
• Develop core corporate slide deck related for the Innovation for Children programme for use by DNDi staff in miscellaneous presentations

Donor reports:

• Draft periodic reports to donors, as needed

Website:

• Develop paediatric content for the DNDi website