Overview
The role leads knowledge management, communication, and visibility functions for a project aimed at strengthening women's land rights, improving land dispute resolution, and promoting inclusive land governance in Sierra Leone.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain a dedicated project website, ensuring it is user-friendly and optimized for low-bandwidth environments.
- Upload and regularly update website content, monitor performance, and produce analytics reports.
- Develop and implement a knowledge management and communication strategy.
- Produce communication materials such as briefs, newsletters, infographics, press releases, and case studies.
- Establish and maintain an online resource hub for project documents and tools.
- Ensure all materials are gender-sensitive, inclusive, and accessible.
- Translate key communication products into local languages where appropriate.
- Ensure visibility of project activities in line with FAO and donor requirements.
- Coordinate media coverage of project events and milestones.
- Develop success stories, human-interest stories, and case studies.
- Support branding and visibility during events.
- Manage social media integration and digital outreach.
- Support communication and engagement with stakeholders.
- Facilitate dissemination of project information to communities and stakeholders.
- Support integration of communication tools into stakeholder engagement processes.
- Support visibility and communication aspects of the Grievance Redress Mechanism.
- Provide regular updates on communication and visibility activities.
- Contribute to project progress reports with communication-related inputs.
- Coordinate with FAO, MLHCP, and World Bank teams to ensure alignment of messaging.
- Train project staff and partners on basic communication and content management.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in communication, knowledge management, or digital media.
- Proven experience in website development and content management systems (CMS).
- Experience working on donor-funded or international development projects.
- Experience with FAO, UN, or World Bank-funded projects is an asset.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Media Studies, Information Management, or related field.
