Role Overview<\/p>\n
\tThe Communications Lead will oversee and drive Villgro Africa’s communications strategy. ensuring consistent, high-quality storytelling across programs, partnerships, and platforms. The role combines strategic communications leadership, internal communications management, content oversight, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership, while identifying creative opportunities to elevate Villgro Africa’s brand and amplify the impact of its entrepreneurs and partners.
\n\tA key priority for this role will be strengthening internal communications and coordination across teams, ensuring staff are aligned, informed, and able to effectively communicate Villgro Africa’s work externally.
\n\tThe Communications Lead will supervise a small creative team and work closely with program, partnerships, and leadership teams to embed communications across Villgro Africa’s activities.<\/p>\n
Key Responsibilities
\nCommunications Strategy & Content<\/p>\n
\tLead the development and execution of Villgro Africa’s communications strategy across programs, partnerships, and institutional initiatives.
\n\tOversee production of communications outputs, including blogs, newsletters, interviews, podcasts, case studies, social media, and website content.
\n\tSupport internal teams in developing strategic thought leadership pieces and external publications.
\n\tEnsure communications support is incorporated from the beginning of every Villgro Africa funding call or program.
\n\tIdentify and develop creative communications opportunities, including multimedia storytelling, campaigns, documentaries, and events.
\n\tMaintain consistency in messaging, branding, and editorial quality across all communications channels.
\n\tDevelop and manage Villgro Africa’s public relations efforts, including building relationships with journalists and media outlets, identifying opportunities for traditional media coverage, and supporting press outreach, interviews, and media placements that elevate the organization’s work and its portfolio companies.<\/p>\n
Internal Communications & Coordination<\/p>\n
\tDevelop and implement internal communications processes to improve information flow across teams.
\n\tEnsure staff are well-informed about organizational priorities, programs, partnerships, and key announcements.
\n\tSupport teams in communicating program milestones, impact stories, and key updates internally and externally.
\n\tEstablish systems for gathering content, updates, and success stories from program and partnerships teams.
\n\tFacilitate coordination between communications and other teams to ensure alignment on messaging, timelines, and deliverables.
\n\tProvide guidance to staff on communicating Villgro Africa’s work clearly and consistently.<\/p>\n
Team Leadership<\/p>\n
\tManage and supervise the communications team, including digital marketers, videographers, photographers, designers, and interns.
\n\tCoordinate content calendars, internal project management systems, production schedules, and workflow across the communications team.
\n\tProvide mentorship and guidance to ensure high-quality creative output.<\/p>\n
Stakeholder Engagement & Partnerships<\/p>\n
\tSupport the Partnerships Lead in stakeholder engagement and communications related to partnerships and events.
\n\tFormalize coordination processes with communications teams from partner and client organizations to ensure alignment and effective collaboration.
\n\tSupport communications and visibility for partner events, ecosystem engagements, and strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n
Business Development<\/p>\n
\tContribute to proposal development and partnership opportunities by providing communications strategy and narrative development.
\n\tIdentify opportunities to expand Villgro Africa’s communications reach and impact through new collaborations, storytelling formats, and platforms.<\/p>\n
Qualifications<\/p>\n
\tBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, International Development, or a related field.
\n\t7+ years of experience in communications, preferably in development, innovation, health, or entrepreneurship ecosystems.
\n\tDemonstrated experience managing creative teams and coordinating multimedia communications outputs.
\n\tStrong editorial and writing skills with experience producing high-quality external publications.
\n\tExperience managing communications for multi-stakeholder partnerships or programs.
\n\tExperience strengthening internal communications processes within organizations. Familiarity with digital communications platforms, social media strategy, and content production.
\n\tExperience supporting proposal development or partnership communications is an asset.<\/p>\n
Key Skills<\/p>\n
\tStrategic communications planning
\n\tInternal communications and cross-team coordination
\n\tEditorial leadership and storytelling
\n\tTeam management and creative direction
\n\tStakeholder and partnership communications Multimedia and digital content strategy
\n\tProject management and collaboration<\/p>\n
Send your CV and cover letter to hr@villgroafrica.org.<\/p>\n
Apply Through:<\/p>\n
hr@villgroafrica.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/hr@villgroafrica.org","_company_name":"Villgro","_company_website":"http:\/\/N%20\/%20A","_company_tagline":"At Villgro, we make innovative social enterprises become more impactful. We believe inventions are critical to drive change and create impact at scale. We exist to make inventions get adopted and make communities resilient and improve their livelihoods.","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[692],"job-categories":[750,693,1336,702],"job-types":[687],"class_list":["post-96326","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_region-nairobi","job-type-full-time"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/96326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=96326"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=96326"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=96326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}