Senior Communications Officer - CDC Consult Limited

Job Description

About the Firm

The firm is one of Ghana’s leading Investment Banking firms serving private, institutional and sovereign clients. They are wholly Ghanaian-owned, in existence for over 10 years and headquartered at Labone in Accra. This firm is a leading investment firm known for its strategic asset management and exceptional client service.

The firm is a consortium lead for the Access to Finance donor-funded program and is seeking a Senior Gender, Youth, and Inclusion Officer for FILMA.

Programme Overview

FILMA aims to overcome demand-side and supply-side barriers related to the availability, accessibility, usage, and affordability of inclusive financial services. These services include credit, insurance, pensions, savings, investments, and payments for Last Mile Actors (LMAs). FILMA seeks to facilitate the financial inclusion of LMAs, empowering them to access dignified and fulfilling work, generate income, access and use financial services, and enhance their resilience to shocks and stresses.

FILMA will focus primarily on agriculture and ag-adjacent value chains in Northern, Bono East, Volta, and Oti regions. The program will be implemented over four years (2024-2028).

Major Purpose

The Senior Communication Officer will be responsible for external and internal communications for the programme to communicate activities and results meaningfully to different target audiences and to promote internal collaboration. The Officer must develop and realise appropriate and creative communication and visibility strategies, concepts, products and activity formats. This will be done in collaboration with the Project manager other team members, as well as consortium partners

Primary Functions & Responsibilities

• Planning and monitoring coherent, target group-specific and impactful external and internal communication strategies, plans and activities with a focus on results and success stories
• Producing and disseminating external communication products according to client-project and the Mastercard Foundation standards/requirements (e.g. website, factsheets, presentations, brochures, flyers, newsletters, photo database, videos, infographics, banners, pull-ups, social media postings).
• Organising communication activities such as public events or VIP visits and managing relations with the local media (including press releases and packages, press conferences and visits, media coverage monitoring etc.).
• Providing technical and strategic communications advice and capacity building to programme management and team as well as partner institutions.
• Supporting internal communication and knowledge exchange within the programme team as well as contributions to TEMPLE with innovative communications channels and initiatives
• Regarding above-mentioned areas, ensuring (i) compliance with The Mastercard Foundation standards and procedures and appropriate documentation of work processes and results, (ii) the preparation of procurement, monitoring and quality control of suppliers and service providers, (iii) close coordination with team members, involvement of the implementing consortium, and liaison with other Mastercard Foundation projects if necessary and partner institutions (iv) the consideration of cross-cutting topics such as youth, gender and People living with disability (PWD) equality.

Required Skills or Experience

Qualification Required & Experience

• University degree in (development) communication, journalism, public relations or comparable training
• 3 years of professional experience in the field of communication (media and PR work, journalism, internal communications, lobbying etc.) and familiarity with Ghana’s media landscape; ideally experience with strategic communication regarding development projects
• Talent for visual communication and experience with audiovisual and other media production
• Excellent writing, editing and copywriting skills (articles, press releases etc.) and the ability to grasp and translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for broader audiences.
• Experience in project and event management, including preparation, budgeting and logistics.
• Experience working with Development Cooperation Partners (DCPs).
• Proficiency in ITC technologies, including MS Office suite, desktop publishing, photo editing and graphics applications
• Strong command of written and spoken English; knowledge of Ghanian local languages is an asset.
• Dynamic, agile personality with integrity, attention to detail, strong diplomatic and communication skills and a willingness to learn.
• Ability to work in a diverse team but also autonomously as well as results-oriented and to multitask, prioritize and work under pressure.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% to field offices and project sites

Location: Labone, Accra

Program: Financial Inclusion for Last Mile Actors (FILMA)

Duration:12-month contract, renewable subject to performance and availability of funding