Media Manager MENAEE (Humanitarian Surge)

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Media Manager MENAEE (Humanitarian Surge) to join our global team.

Team and Job Purpose

Lead integrated and impactful global communications and media, ensuring every message we share engages our audiences to take action on income and influencing and support on a global scale, supporting our mission to improve children's lives worldwide. 

Focused on our Global Goals impact, major humanitarian emergencies, engaging our people, managing crisis communications, we partner with our Country Offices and Members to deliver strategic communications, media and internal communications activity, to amplify critical issues on a world stage. 

Role purpose

Save the Children is looking for an experienced journalist or media manager to join our global media team.  You will help engage media and win media coverage across the movement with a focus on prioritised humanitarian contexts, new crises, and innovative and solution driven programmes. You will have experience working with or in international media and a track record of working in vulnerable or fragile contexts. You will be part of our emergency response team and able to travel at short notice to lead our media response in humanitarian crises. You will be capable of organising and leading groups of journalists to cover our work in hard-to-reach locations. You will have strong people skills to build and maintain a network of international media correspondents and to work with colleagues across the Save the Children movement, including in our country offices. You must have strong writing skills and possess strong news judgment to spot news angles and unique stories and have the journalistic and technical skills to be able to pitch, research, and report stories for the world’s largest independent child rights organisation. You will be adaptable and able to adjust as needed to ensure continuity of media support and coverage across the movement. You will be excited by coming up with new ways to find and tell stories from across the organisation with a focus on children.

Job Title: Media Manager MENAEE (Humanitarian Surge)

Reports To: Global Head of News

Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available 

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: P3

Location: Amman [or another MENAEE location]. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Amman

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment. 

Language Requirements: Arabic, English

International Travel Requirements: Yes, up to 20% 

Budget Responsibility: None

Principal Accountabilities

• Be ready to be first deployed in the time of rapid onset emergencies 
• Manage relationships with journalists and key media outlets to enhance the visibility and impact of Save the Children’s work.
• Produce high-quality media content, including press releases, b-roll, case studies, and social media posts, to support global and regional media outreach.
• Maintain a focus on humanitarian emergencies, other crises as well as thematic issues
• Coordinate and support media trips to Save the Children’s programmes, ensuring impactful storytelling and engagement.
• Serve as a spokesperson for Save the Children, communicating key messages during crises and important media moments.
• Monitor and report on the impact of media activities, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational objectives. 
• Ensure media efforts align with the Global Engagement Framework 

Experience and Skills

Essential

Experience: 

1. Significant media experience or equivalent with experience working in MENAEE essential
2. Foundation of Experience: Experience in news writing and editing for a media organisation or charity 
3. Proficient Experience: Demonstrated experience in global media relations and working as a spokesperson on sensitive issues.
4. Considerable Experience: Experience in planning and executing media strategies, particularly in crisis or humanitarian contexts.
5. Extensive Experience: With a media outlet or in a similar role within an international nonprofit organisation, preferably within the humanitarian or development sector. 

Additional Considerations

1. Commitment to Save the Children's Values: The role holder must actively demonstrate and embody the values and behaviours of Save the Children, including accountability, collaboration, integrity, and ambition.
2. Availability: Willingness to be available for 'out of hours' media work, including weekends and emergencies, as required and well as travel at short notice
3. Experience in fragile contexts and training in crisis communications is a plus

Desirable

1. Outstanding Writing Skills: Proven ability to write clear, engaging, and compelling press releases and stories, for diverse audiences.
2. Media Management: Proficient in managing media relations, including handling inquiries from journalists and preparing press releases.
3. Networking: Ability to build and maintain a strong network of contacts with national and international journalists.
4. Spokesperson Skills: Confident in public speaking with the ability to articulate complex information in a clear and engaging manner.
5. Editorial Skills: Sharp editorial instincts with an ability to identify newsworthy angles and develop compelling stories.
6. Strategic Planning: Skilled in creating strategic media plans that align with organisational goals and advocacy priorities.
7. Crisis Communication: Advantage to have experience in managing crisis communications and reputational risk issues, including drafting appropriate media lines.
8. Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively within interdisciplinary teams including advocacy, policy, and fundraising teams.
9. Cultural Competency: Demonstrates cultural awareness and the ability to work effectively in diverse environments and travel to fragile context, leading teams when needed.
10. Multitasking: Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Experience

1. Foundation of Experience: Experience in news writing and editing for a media organisation or charity
2. Proficient Experience: Demonstrated experience in media relations and working as a spokesperson on sensitive issues.
3. Considerable Experience: Experience in planning and executing media strategies, particularly in crisis or humanitarian contexts.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Education: 

• A degree in Journalism, International Relations, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered. 

Desirable

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism or a related field OR Relevant Master's Degree or equivalent experience in the field of media Professional certification in journalism or media management would be an advantage. 
• Languages an advantage.

Working at Save the Children International

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our recruitment process:

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.