Regional Communications Manager - East Africa

About Wildlife Works

Wildlife Works is a community-centered wildlife conservation company that implements market-based initiatives to protect the planet’s threatened wilderness and endangered wildlife. The company was founded on the premise that if we want wildlife in our world, it has to work for local communities who share their environment. Wildlife Works’ conservation projects drive direct financing to forest communities to fund their own economic development while preventing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere annually.

Job Summary

The East Africa Regional Communications manager will manage all media and marketing communications content from existing projects and pipeline projects for regional distribution and to the global communications team with the goal to elevate Wildlife Works awareness and reputation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute local digital, radio and media campaigns to raise awareness and brand reputation in Kenya and East Africa regions
• Manage regional social media accounts
• Write and pitch stories to local and national press
• Manage all press inquiries, trips and stories requests
• Support regional director and sourcing team on communications and advocacy materials needed to elevate Wildlife Works reputation to secure project partners
• Work directly with global communications team to develop regional story themes and assignments for field teams from each project
• Manage the individuals who will be collecting content from each project
• Train field team members who have been assigned to communications / content gathering for marketing and communications teams
• Draft content from information gathered from project sites and send to global communications team for final editing and distribution
• Travel to projects to do larger story sourcing - once per month or two months or as needed
• Organize and manage all digital storage of footage for archiving and ease of sharing with proper identification and full credits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications or related field
• At least 5 years experience developing and executing a communications strategy
• Excellent english writing and verbal storytelling skills and training
• Journalism background, training or similar
• Experience in conservation is a plus
• Proficient in English and Swahili
• Good listener with strong people skills to interview people from different backgrounds in our project communities
• Robust attention to detail, impeccable grammar and strong analytical skills.
• Adept interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate in a multi-cultural team.
• Willing and able to travel within east Africa as required.
• Willing to work hours required to liaise with international team members in different time zones.
• Legal authorization to work in Kenya