Mercy Corps Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor Jobs 2022 – Kenya NGO Jobs

Mercy Corps Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor Jobs 2022 – Kenya NGO Jobs. Mercy Corps Kenya looking for “Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor”. Applicants with a BA or BS in International Development may apply on or before 12 November 2022.

Mercy Corps has been working in Kenya for over 30 years.  With the formation of the independent Republic of Kenya in July 2011, Mercy Corps established a Country Office and has staff working all over the country to help build government institutions. Mercy Corps has maintained its presence in Kenya despite significant challenges in the operating environment by adopting a flexible approach to its work with the Government of Kenya.

Mercy Corps Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor Jobs 2022

The Mercy Corps has published a job vacancy announcement on 29 October 2022 for qualified Kenya’s to fill in the vacant post of Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mercy Corps Job Vacancy 2022

General Position Summary: The Senior Advisor – Resilience Storytelling and Communication provides a combination of technical leadership over resilience storytelling methods and guidance, management of a pipeline of resilience documentation opportunities, and strategic direct support to programs on resilience-focused learning capture and resilience communications strategy. The Senior Advisor works closely with other technical roles in the Resilience TSU to link storytelling methods with broader guidance on and methods for resilience-informed program design, measurement, learning and quality implementation. She/he partners with program teams to improve systems for deliberately identifying and communicating participants and communities’ lived experience of resilience dynamics and anecdotes of change in a way that reinforces program learning for adaptation and quality. She/he also engages deeply to harvest and produce high quality resilience stories and strategic results and learning documentation. This role also enhances knowledge sharing among Mercy Corps’ global network of resilience practitioners through managing Mercy Corps’ dynamic Resilience Community of Practice.  This role has a global remit with geographic concentration in the Africa Regional Resilience Portfolio

Essential Job Functions:

• Set direction for and steward global approach and methods for resilience storytelling, ensuring they are data-driven and promote community and local practitioner assets, voices and perspectives in line with Mercy Corps’ core values around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Lead the development of detailed technical guidance, didactic materials and tools to improve the use of resilience storytelling in programs as part of Mercy Corps’ overall Resilience Theory to Practice initiative and curriculum
• Develop and manage implementation of a strategic pipeline of high-impact resilience stories, results and learning documentation opportunities, and regularly identify and nurture new opportunities into the pipeline
• Hire, manage, and mentor consultants supporting program teams with resilience storytelling

Qualification & Experience:

• BA or BS in International Development, Journalism, Communications, Humanities, or relevant field
• 5+ years’ experience working in the development field
• Familiarity with resilience thinking and systems approaches
• Familiarity with food security related sectors, such as agricultural systems and livelihoods; market systems development; cash programming; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; natural resource management.
• Proven ability to synthesize and communicate complex subjects/topics effectively to multi-stakeholder groups through written formats. Experience communicating through other media formats is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing effective communications strategies and written and visual materials. Design experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated storytelling experience
• Experience facilitating communities of practice is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional English writing skills.
• Strong representation, networking and facilitation skills.

Other Details

• Contract Type: Full Time
• Selection Process: Interview
• Salary: negotiable
• Application Process: Online

How to Apply Mercy Corps Resilience Storytelling and Communications – Senior Advisor Jobs 2022

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The Closing Date: 12 November 2022

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.