JOB VACANCY: Multimedia & Campaigning Officer-Tunis

Organization: Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Position: Multimedia and Campaigning Officer
Unit: Media
Starting Date: Immediate
Contract: One year (renewable)
Salary: Salaries are determined based on the employee’s position on the wage scale.

Are you entering the job market and amenable to meaningfully contributing to a principled nongovernmental organization that is respected, dynamic, and impactful? Do you seek to use your qualifications and experience to defend and promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region and beyond?

This offer, detailed below, will be of interest to you.

Who we are:

CIHRS is a unique organization that has demonstrated its integrity in the field of human rights and democracy since its establishment in 1993, rising above national interest group politics during the many past and ongoing political struggles in the Middle East and North Africa region. As an expanding and increasingly influential organization, CIHRS remains resolutely committed to its core principles of respect for human rights and justice.

CIHRS and its partners from across the MENA region have contributed to numerous successful international advocacy initiatives. Among these successful advocacy efforts, national governments were pressured to modify or halt legislation threatening freedom of assembly and association, and prominent international organizations – such as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) – were mobilized to take strong stances against repressive governments violating the basic rights of their citizens.

As a regional organization deeply embedded within the human rights movement in the MENA region, CIHRS fosters both strong connections with civil society organizations on the ground and effective engagement with major players in the international community. Through decades of activism, engagement, and monitoring of regional and global politics, CIHRS has progressively increased its institutional capacity and international reach, largely through the establishment of CIHRS offices in Europe and North Africa. Given its strategic operational setup and broad range of partnerships across the world, CIHRS has a distinctive ability to connect local human rights violations in the MENA region to global security and stability concerns.

Position description:

We are seeking a Multimedia and Campaigning Officer to join the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS). The Multimedia and Campaigning Officer will work within the Media & Communications Unit on promoting CIHRS’ work with target audiences in the MENA region, Europe, and the USA. They will work on aligning internal and external communication, ensuring output consistency with CIHRS brand promotion, and maintaining CIHRS’ digital presence.

This person will assist CIHRS and the Media Unit in simplifying its mission, goals, and vision using an array of multimedia tools. They will undertake the planning of the CIHRS’ campaigns on alternative platforms, and the production of all visual arts required for this, utilizing their in-depth understanding of these platforms including technical requirements and the habits and preferences of target audience(s). The candidate must become familiarized with the messages and goals that CIHRS seeks to advance through these campaigns.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Planning CIHRS’ electronic campaigns based on specific goals and adapting them to the target audience(s), including planning the campaign phases until its culmination.
Supervising the implementation of all campaigns joined by CIHRS in cooperation with other organizations and entities, ensuring that these campaigns and their associated materials are in line with CIHRS goals, and achieve the requirements of its audience.
Work on creating and developing CIHRS communication channels with new segments of the public and innovating best practices for publishing on new or alternative platforms to ensure widened access to target groups.
Production of all visual materials related to CIHRS campaigns or supervising their implementation in order to achieve the campaign’s objectives.
Cooperating with the Media Unit team to provide CIHRS, its activities, reports, data and daily messages with an appropriate electronic/interactive visual component, which helps to disseminate content and ensure its relevance to new or alternative platforms according to the characteristics of each platform.
Follow up and evaluate the impact of these electronic publications and their feedback on the audience of each platform, to indicate the size of their impact and the degree of their popularity, and work to develop and update them in a manner that suits the nature of the message and its privacy first, and the requirements of the audience and the requirements of the publishing platform.
Managing interactions with the public on electronic platforms, responding to their inquiries and requirements, and evaluating their reactions, which will be reflected in the development of content on these platforms.

Eligibility criteria:

It is highly desirable for a successful applicant to possess or be able to demonstrate the following essential qualifications, knowledge & experience, and skills:

Previous similar professional experience working with human rights and democracy NGOs (at least 3 years)
A nuanced understanding of the human rights situation in the MENA region
Experience in media campaigns, especially electronic, at the level of planning and implementation, preferably in the field of human rights
Knowledgeable about new and alternative visual/interactive/multimedia arts, the characteristics of each and the best software, tools, equipment, and practices for their production
A broad understanding of different publishing platforms (print, websites, blogs, social networking sites), and familiarity with their publishing requirements
Proficiency in writing for visual arts, in both Arabic and English
The quality and skill of design for fixed visual arts (art work) and animated (videos of all kinds) using various software, in order to ensure the preparation of high quality, relevant and varied visual materials
Familiarity with the principles of photography (by camera or mobile) to prepare and record interviews (or excerpts) from the activities of the institute and use them in the promotion or recycling processes within different visual products on electronic platforms
The ability to work within a growing, widespread and highly diversified team, in different countries
Work under pressure, with appropriate speed and quality
Full command of Arabic and English (French is an added bonus).

Conditions

1 year contract subject to 3-month probation period. Renewal subject to evaluation and funding.
Commencement: Immediate.
Working hours: Full time.
Based: Tunis, Tunisia.

Salary

CIHRS seeks exceptional applicants and offers competitive salaries and benefits. Salaries will be determined based on the employee’s position on the wage scale.

Commitment to Equality:

CIHRS is committed to ensuring equality and non-discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, sexual orientation, national origin, nationality, religion or belief in its hiring process. CIHRS is a multicultural environment that celebrates diversity. All employees are expected to promote and act in a manner that ensures a non-discriminatory, open and sensitive approach to others from different backgrounds and cultures.

How to Apply

Please submit your completed application by sending a motivation letter and an updated CV to recruitments@cihrs.org with a subject title: Multimedia and Campaigning Officer

Please indicate your availability clearly in the motivation letter.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
For any query on this position, please e-mail recruitments@cihrs.org
The deadline for applications is January 10 at midnight.