Emergency Communications Readiness and Response Advisor

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

World Vision is responding to more large-scale, complex emergencies than ever before. There are more demands on communications to be ready, responsive and to handle much greater volumes of Partnership interest and demand for voice and content to meet growing audience requirements.

As the Emergency Communications Readiness and Response Advisor, you will partner with the Emergency Communications Advisor to strengthen World Vision’s humanitarian communications leadership, readiness and operational agility in support of live emergencies and the ongoing positioning of World Vision’s humanitarian expertise and brand.

You will also monitor and calendar global moments, events, anniversaries, and key dates, partnering with owners and stakeholders, to ensure the proactive engagement and positioning of emergency communications.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, international development, media, journalism or PR
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience to demonstrate breadth of knowledge, wisdom and organisational politics.
• Overseas experience and evidence of cultural sensitivity
• Advanced news writing for journalism and online.
• Evidence of strong understanding of social and online media.
• Evidence of emergency or crisis communications/coordination.
• English (spoken and written) required. Additional languages preferred (especially Spanish, French, German, Arabic).
• Deployment capability required. May require up to three-months deployment.