The Corporate Communications Manager leads and inspires a dynamic communications team, fostering an environment where creativity, innovation, and learning from calculated risk-taking are actively encouraged. This role involves driving the implementation and continuous improvement of a donor-aligned communications strategy, overseeing the annual content planning process, and maintaining the highest standards of quality, ethics, and safeguarding across all storytelling. The Manager collaborates closely with Senior Leadership and technical leads to elevate the organization’s position as a thought leader and trusted partner in the sector.
Position :– Corporate Communications Manager
Location :- Addis Ababa
Employment Type: Full-tim
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
➠ Required Education: Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Communications, Media, Journalism, Marketing, International Relations, or a closely related field.
➠ Required Professional Experience: (Specific years of experience were missing from the source text and must be added by the organization).
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Content Planning
➠ Lead the development, delivery, and continuous refinement of the Annual Content Plan in close partnership with the Digital Engagement Specialist, Communications Director, and other key internal stakeholders.
➠ Ensure communications objectives are strongly aligned with sponsor/donor needs, organizational strategy, sector trends, and advocacy goals.
➠ Facilitate regular workshops and planning sessions with programmatic, field, and technical leads to collaboratively set content priorities. ➠ Integrate feedback and insights gathered from StoryHub usage metrics and internal stakeholder consultations to adapt strategy.
Team Leadership and Culture
➠ Provide direct supervision to the Media and Corporate Storytelling Manager and functional, matrix management to Field Storytelling Coordinators.
➠ Champion a culture where creative experimentation, calculated risk-taking, and learning from failure are a regular part of team life.
➠ Set clear expectations for innovation, constructive feedback, safeguarding vigilance, and continuous professional growth.
➠ Identify talent gaps and organize targeted skill-building sessions, mentorship, and professional development.
➠ Provide functional leadership to Field Storytelling Coordinators, setting priorities for collecting regionally diverse, child-focused narratives, case studies, and multimedia content.
Content Quality, StoryHub Management, and Safeguarding
➠ Manage the StoryHub workflow, including assignments, content archiving, and categorization, ensuring all assets are easily retrievable.
➠ Personally review all flagship assignments and high-risk content for quality, clarity, safeguarding compliance, and potential reputational risk.
➠ Draft all communications output that involves complex safeguarding or reputational risks, including sensitive field stories and emergency communications.
➠ Work closely with the Director of Communications and Incident Management Teams (IMTs) during reputational crises.
➠ Regularly audit StoryHub collections to ensure assets are not only compliant but also reusable and tied to priority themes.
Thought Leadership, Positioning, and Partnerships
➠ Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team and technical leads to identify themes, moments, and products for organizational thought leadership
. ➠ Guide the creation, review, and sign-off of strategic reports, white papers, advocacy statements, and sector-facing content.
➠ Identify opportunities for the organization to participate in or host influential sector discussions, panels, and conferences.
➠ Engage with the Local Partnerships Specialist to implement the Localization Roadmap, strengthening local partner capacity.
➠ Integrate cross-cutting themes (HDP nexus approach, gender-lens, conflict sensitivity, safeguarding) to ensure programs are inclusive and context-sensitive.
Monitoring, Resource Stewardship, and Adaptation
➠ Collect, review, and analyze communications metrics and qualitative feedback to inform continuous improvement.
➠ Enforce accountability by ensuring efficient resource utilization, adherence to internal controls, and achieving satisfactory financial and operational audit results
. ➠ Contribute to resource acquisition efforts by engaging in external stakeholder relations and supporting proposal preparation.
Skills & Attributes
➠ Demonstrated ability to Lead, inspire, & provide mentorship to a diverse team
➠ Expert knowledge of commumication strategy development & implement in a NGO or humanitarial context
➠Exceptional judgement & ability to manage safeguarding & reputational risks in public communication
➠ Strong analuytical skills for translating communication metrics & feedback into strategic adjustment
End Date: October 13, 2025
Application
Online Application : Application Link