DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION OFFICER – JOB

Youth Qlick International is a non-profit organization that is purposed to equip and empower young people especially in Africa for socio-economic development. Our main focus is to promote entrepreneurship among the youth, equip them with resources and guide them into self-employment. This organization seeks to enhance the skills, talents, and opportunities of the youth to interact more comfortably with their immediate environments in order to become proficient and well-rounded in ethics, leadership, entrepreneurship, and critical reasoning in this post-modern era. We assist disadvantaged and vulnerable skilled young men and women who wish to start their own business and earn a living from their skills but lack the capital to do so. We also provide continuous capacity-building training on small business management and offer tailor-made business advice to ensure that businesses set up by our beneficiaries survive.
We do this by organizing youth empowerment programs such as summer camps/schools and are now scaling up our approach by launching a 6 month long incubator program. We are currently in search of a part-time employee who will serve as the Development Communication Officer for our organization.

Job Title: Development Communication Officer.

Employment location: Ghana, 70% Remote

Job Status: Part-time contract

Salary: Voluntary service with allowance and wages only during major projects.

Start date: 1st March 2022

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The communication officer shall be in charge of all awareness and communication around the programs.
• S/he shall design a communication strategy around our events and program to drive more awareness for our events.
• The communication officer shall engage with local opinion leaders in this role when needed to ensure the community buy-in and support of opinion leaders for our programs.
• The communication manager shall also be responsible for penetration campaigns through traditional or social media and creating impressions
• Develop and execute communication strategy for outreach, attracting, and onboarding deserving and qualified audiences.
• Designing & managing our websites and social media pages and designing newsletters.
• Create video content for publicity, image editing, flyer, and brochure designing.
• Manage the day-to-day news updates on our websites and publishing of blog posts.

Job requirements

• Education/training: University qualification (Diploma/Degree/Master) in communication, media studies, journalism or related field.
• Language: Fluent business language skills in English (C1 level)
• General professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in a communication role.
• Specific professional experience: 5 years of experience working and engaging diverse stakeholders, especially in rural communities and the general public.
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience 3 years of experience in DC projects Ability to communicate effectively and use interpersonal skills to interact with team members, supervisor, the general public, etc. to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
• Good knowledge of WordPress, Adobe programs like Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and other designing software.

At Youth Qlick International! You can expect.

• Opportunities to nurture project management skills in a start-up scene.
• Opportunities to develop skills in the use of digital productivity tools like Google docs,
• Asana, Slack, etc.
• Opportunities to work within a multinational and multicultural team.
• Mentoring from experienced social entrepreneurs to assist in developing your
• professional career.
• Access to our vast network of partner organizations institutions both locally and international.
• Opportunities to attend local, regional and international conferences and workshops
• Scholarship opportunities for further studies through our development partners.

Interested applicants should submit their CV/resume and motivational letter to hr@youthqlick.org