Title: Communications Manager
 

Grade: 8
 

Based: Kathmandu with possible travel to field locations
 

Duration: 6 months (extension subject to funding)

Essential skills and experience:

• Minimum university degree in relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in related sector.
• Experience of working on successful multi-media campaigns working across multiple communication platforms.
• Knowledge of and experience with media production, communication and dissemination techniques and methods. 
• Substantial experience of managing relationships and coordinating with, government representatives, civil society groups, and/or media partners.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage and guide communications teams/partners, and to manage and build the capacity of local communications partners.
• Demonstrated experience of conducting and managing communications activities.
• Fluency in both Nepali and English.
• Experience of working in multicultural professional environments.
• Adaptable to changing circumstances and organisational needs.
• High analytical skills and able to represent the views and values of BBC Media Action.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience working on communications in emergency preparedness response, feeding up-to-date information from the ground into response programming
• Experience managing relationships with aid agencies, government bodies, media and other relevant stakeholders.

Key competencies: 

The following competencies (behaviors and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate these competencies. 

• Imagination/Creative Thinking: Is able to transform creative ideas/impulses into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
• Managing Relationships: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Team working.
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
• Analytical Thinking: Able to simplify complex problems, process projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able to identify causal relationships and construct frameworks, for problem solving and/or development.
• Influencing and Persuading: Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
• Planning and Organizing: Is able to think ahead in order to establish an effective and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritizes and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements.
• Self-Development: Able to identify and apply opportunities for learning and development.

Source: Merojob 

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