Communications Coordinator

Company Overview

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations. Palladium is built on the idea that progress will be supported by four key pillars:

International Development
Strategy Execution Consulting
Impact Investment
Training and Events
We create positive impact through more than 100 current projects with more than 2000 employees operating in over 90 countries.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. Wealso provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Project Overview and Role

Do you have excellent program management skills? Do you have the ability to set and manage systems for effective program delivery? V4C is seeking for a highly skilled program management specialist with experience in work planning, coordination and management. We are looking for a team player with good inter-personal communication skills that will work across various program areas to implement a highly innovative communications strategy.

The purpose of the Communications Coordinator role is to support the communications team with effective planning to ensure high efficiency and quality delivery of tasks and activities. The role will interface with other program areas to ensure smooth coordination and interface with communications unit and also serve to coordinate the programs digital space across program outputs.
Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:
Work planning and scheduling
Support the Communications lead to develop annual, quarterly and monthly plans and schedules by collating all regular output activity plans and reports from communications advisers
Regularly check and confirm with other outputs that communications requirements are reflected in the plans of relevant streams of communication
Coordinate with all relevant Communications staff to ensure all intervention areas are captured in periodic plans and have agreed and realistic timelines
Support and work with the Communications lead to ensure all work plans are costed and adequate budget provisions are made by developing and maintaining timelines, schedules and reviews of activities with communications advisers to ensure draft work plans are produced
Support the communications lead to track deliverable timelines and pre-empt possible slippage and notify the communications lead and FAM of such
Responsible for ensuring coordination of all program areas around key campaign moments and events such as IWD, 16 days of activism, programme big deliverables etc. The position holder will ensure clear plans are outlined, responsibilities and roles are agreed, meetings and updates are coordinated
2. Digital coordination
Develop ToRs and support the Communications lead on budget negotiations and supervise contract implementation by checking if deliverables match agreed milestones
Responsible for ensuring outputs 1,2 3 and 4 requirements are fully captured within the web service provider contracts
Responsible for development and tracking of milestones, ensuring quality of deliverables
Ensuring regular and periodic interaction between web service sub-contractors and V4C outputs
Coordinate content schedule from V4C point and Matrix management responsibility for content producers based in Nigeria to ensure they are delivering to schedule and timelines,
Ensure regular three way communication between mobile service provider, V4C and content producers
Responsible for ensuring outputs 1, 2, 3 and 4 monitoring requirements are well articulated and communicated to web service providers
Responsible for ensuring all outputs review monthly reports and provide consolidated feedback
Ensure timely and adequate monitoring and reporting of web statistics, data and performance and dissemination of such information to relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

Core Competencies:
Program management
Planning and coordination
Contracts and budget management
Digital content development
Functional Competencies:
Demonstrated ability in:
Managing and coordinating inter agency and inter department programs
Client Relationship and management
Use of program management tools and applications
Understanding digital content development process
Developing and managing complex budgets
Contracts negotiation and management
Strong Inter-personal communications skills
Key Knowledge:
Excellent understanding of Nigeria and international business management practices
Microsoft project management tools and applications
Value for Money application

Qualifications and / or Experience:
A graduate degree in management, business, or social sciences
5 to 7years? experience working in any of; Advertising/Marketing Communications, Corporate planning and strategy, Relationship and client management
Language Requirement:
English fluency (oral and written)

Travel:
This position requires flexibility to travel internationally and within South and Northern Nigeria.

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