Consultant - East Africa Content and Digital Officer

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Consultant - East Africa Content and Digital Officer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, gathering, and packaging powerful content from the East Africa region to connect audiences to IRC's work and support our goals of building income, profile, and influence.

Scope of Work: The Content and Digital consultant for East Africa will focus on identifying, gathering, and packaging powerful content (photo, video, audio, etc.) from the region to connect audiences to IRC's work and support our goals of building income, profile, and influence. The consultant will work closely with frontline colleagues to gather critical programming information, spot stories, train programming colleagues, and collect content.

Deliverables: The consultant will work in close collaboration with programming and communications colleagues to deliver high-quality digital assets, strategic messaging, and storytelling that bring the realities of East Africa's crises and the resilience of its people to global attention. The project will include:

• Strategy Development and Execution
• Content Gathering and end-to-end Production
• Supporting Donor Visibility Needs
• Capacity Strengthening
• Manage the East Africa Instagram Channel

Requirements:

• Minimum 3-5 years of professional experience producing multimedia digital content for an international news outlet, company, or nonprofit organization.
• Experience living in and working in East Africa.
• Experience running and growing social media communities and excellent command of social media management tools and analytics.
• Proven track record in developing compelling multi-media packages (with some combination of photo, video, and graphic skills).
• Fluency in all elements of post-production including backing up data, building and organizing Adobe Premiere project files, color correction and grading, sound design, motion graphics, editing music tracks, building engaging and coherent sequences, exporting, compression, sharing out results in different formats, and preservation of completed projects for archiving.
• Demonstrable proficiency with multimedia and film production tools.
• Sharp written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team; comfortable collaborating with and channeling the multiple collaborators involved in NGO communications projects.
• Eager to travel widely and willing to work unusual hours.
• Able to think and take action quickly and creatively in fast-paced environments.