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Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week

Reports to: Director of Policy & Communications in London and MRGA Regional Manager in Kampala

Salary: UGX 79,697,280 per year

Location: based in Africa, preferably at the MRG Africa Office in Kampala, Uganda; will include regular travel within Africa, and occasionally will require visits to Europe. Travel is expected to take up to 3-5 weeks a year (COVID restrictions permitting).

Contract: until 31 December 2021, with the possibility of an extension

The role

We are looking for a Media Officer for Africa who can lead our media work on the continent as part of our overall communications strategy. You will be developing media contacts, undertaking media outreach and supporting our other programmes in Africa.

We also aim to have the funding to conduct capacity building training events for two key target audiences.

If you have at least 2 years’ experience as either a journalist or a media officer with a successful track record of designing and implementing media capacity building programmes, and are fluent in English, then we would love to hear from you.

You should have or be able to obtain permission to live and work in Africa, preferably Uganda and to travel to events across Africa as necessitated by the programme of work (COVID restrictions permitting).

The role involves such tasks as:

  • Research and maintain contacts with locally based journalists
  • Respond to queries from journalists
  • Advise other colleagues on media and social media.
  • Ensure that social media is used effectively by the Africa office
  • Organise press conferences and other media launches
  • Keep records of media coverage of MRG
  • Develop contacts with minority and indigenous communities across Africa
  • Produce own media materials where urgent minority or indigenous issues arise
  • Support partners and programme beneficiaries if they are threatened, through developing security plans with partners and incorporating security as a topic in all the training activities

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Minority Rights Group International campaigns worldwide with around 130 partners in over 60 countries to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard.Through training and education, legal cases, publications and the media and cultural programmes we support minority and indigenous people as they strive to maintain their rights – to the land they live on, the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in education and employment, and to full participation in public life.We understand how discrimination based on age, class, gender and disability can have a multiple impact on disadvantaged minorities, and our campaigns target governments and communities to eradicate such attitudes.Minority Rights Group International has over 40 years experience of working with non-dominant ethnic, religious and linguistic communities and we bring a long-term view of these issues to bear in all the work we do.We work with minorities as diverse as the Batwa in Central Africa, Roma in Europe, Christians in Iraq and Dalits in India and Nepal to name but a few.MRG is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with an international governing Council that meets twice a year. We have consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and observer status with the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights.

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0 USD Uganda CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Minority Rights Group

Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week

Reports to: Director of Policy & Communications in London and MRGA Regional Manager in Kampala

Salary: UGX 79,697,280 per year

Location: based in Africa, preferably at the MRG Africa Office in Kampala, Uganda; will include regular travel within Africa, and occasionally will require visits to Europe. Travel is expected to take up to 3-5 weeks a year (COVID restrictions permitting).

Contract: until 31 December 2021, with the possibility of an extension

The role

We are looking for a Media Officer for Africa who can lead our media work on the continent as part of our overall communications strategy. You will be developing media contacts, undertaking media outreach and supporting our other programmes in Africa.

We also aim to have the funding to conduct capacity building training events for two key target audiences.

If you have at least 2 years’ experience as either a journalist or a media officer with a successful track record of designing and implementing media capacity building programmes, and are fluent in English, then we would love to hear from you.

You should have or be able to obtain permission to live and work in Africa, preferably Uganda and to travel to events across Africa as necessitated by the programme of work (COVID restrictions permitting).

The role involves such tasks as:

  • Research and maintain contacts with locally based journalists
  • Respond to queries from journalists
  • Advise other colleagues on media and social media.
  • Ensure that social media is used effectively by the Africa office
  • Organise press conferences and other media launches
  • Keep records of media coverage of MRG
  • Develop contacts with minority and indigenous communities across Africa
  • Produce own media materials where urgent minority or indigenous issues arise
  • Support partners and programme beneficiaries if they are threatened, through developing security plans with partners and incorporating security as a topic in all the training activities
2021-01-26

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