Officer at FilmAid International

General Position Summary:

The Art & Culture Liaison Officer will coordinate arts & cultural productions & support Media training alumni/student productions in Dadaab.

He/she will ensure proper planning and execution of creative based projects that are facilitated by refugees and host community creatives, students and alumni. This includes but not limited to planning, scheduling & all other pre-production activities, project management and co-ordination, team supervision and skills mentorship.

Essential Functions

• Coordinating project progress from pre-production, production to post production.
• Managing and supervising community based artists during productions.
• Coordinating student & alumni projects within the Media Training in Dadaab.
• Reading, researching, assessing & recommending concepts, scripts & artistic projects.
• Building and developing a network of artist’s contacts within the Refugee camps and host community.
• Maintaining and updating FilmAid contemporary technical skills.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, codes of practice and health and safety laws on productions.Human Resource Management
• Supervision and providing direction to community artists.
• Participate in the recruitment, interviewing and selection of well-qualified CBO’s/Consultants.
• Continuous assessment, identify staff training and development needs, support staff to improve their talent and knowledge through mentorship and coaching as needed and provide training to Creative & Content staff.
• Ensure staffs under your supervision have clearly defined work objectives, individual/team work plans and understand their responsibilities.
• Promote staff development and suggest opportunities for staff training.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Degree or Advanced Diploma in Performance Arts/ Visual Arts/ Digital Media or Art & Design.
• Experience in community and / or participatory media production.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in production/ media house/ art centre.
• Good working knowledge of Film production process.
• Good working knowledge of theatre/ visual arts production.
• Background in community media, communications for development, participatory education/media/development or related disciplines (either through diploma or 2 years of experience)Competencies
• Embodies the complete production and has the ability to comprehend and discern production dynamics.
• Available and reliable at all times and during preproduction (and staging for theatre)
• Hands-on and detail-oriented.
• Good knowledge of both film, theatre and arts production process.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Good presentation and negotiation skills.
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Financial skills and the ability to budget and manage the budget.
• Confidence, assertiveness and motivational.
• Researches and remains current on the developments and applications of latest production technology or methods.
• Builds and maintains a network of contacts in the arts and culture sector.
• Experience supervising or leading or being part of a cross-functional production unit.
• Media training skills.
• Content management and distribution experience/skills.
• Social Media skills.