Lead - Communications and Brand Management at Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)

Job Purpose

• The job holder is responsible for leading in designing, implementing, monitoring and reporting communication and branding policies and strategies in line with the institutional strategic plan. Driving internal standards and external visibility for effective delivery of the IMLU’s interventions. Monitoring media reporting and trends on topics of strategic importance to IMLU. Editing and quality control of all IMLU publications.

Main Job responsibilities

• Coordinates all treaty body activities at the national, regional and international levels;
• Leads policy and research work for legislative, policy and institutional and implementation campaigns to advance criminal justice reforms;
• Identifies, prioritizes, and refines policy targets and language and works with the communications team for dissemination;
• Tracks legislation and evolving political dynamics and identifies the gaps and opportunities;
• Creates and oversees strategic communications, research, and legislative products to support the campaign the criminal justice reforms work;
• Works closely with other like-minded organizations (including PRWG-K) and government agencies to prioritize high-impact work;
• Identifies and leads public interest litigation that informs policy and jurisprudence;
• Leads in developing reports for submission to treaty bodies;
• Identifies spaces within treaty body mechanisms for IMLU’s participation and influencing, including representing IMLU at relevant treaty body formal sessions and CSOs platforms;
• Strengthens internal and external stakeholder understanding of treaty body mechanisms;
• Develops and implements program work plans, ensuring alignment to institutional results areas;
• Ensures fundraising and donor partnership management;
• Overall in charge of all treaty body, criminal justice reforms and accountability program internal and external reporting;
• Monitors and evaluates programme interventions
• Ensures quality control of all treaty bodies, criminal justice reform and accountability program;
• Develops structured and productive partnerships with relevant government institutions to pursue regional and international agenda;
• Leads in developing and implementation of strategies for nurturing critical mass (movement building) for criminal justice reform at community level;
• Advises the Executive Director and the Senior Management Team on pertinent monitoring mechanisms; and
• Any other duty assigned from time to time