Exciting opportunity to support NRC’s strong media, communications, and advocacy work!
What we are looking for:
NRC is seeking an organised and flexible Media & Advocacy Adviser with excellent communications skills in both English and Norwegian and a solid understanding of Norwegian and International media. The ideal candidate has experience from journalism or media and communications work, is interested in the humanitarian sector and has the ability to quickly adapt, learn and hit the ground running. If you’re also a good team player, have the ability to juggle many competing tasks and deadlines, and know how to handle a crisis – this could be the dream job for you.
What you will do:
Generic responsibilities:
Initiate, produce and edit strong global media and advocacy products including media plans, press releases, social media material and talking points. Advise regional offices and country offices on media and advocacy work, support, and coordinate initiatives. Promote, advocate, and raise awareness around NRC’s global activities, results, and initiatives through a variety of communication vehicles in close cooperation with the regional and country offices. Support the implementation of NRC’s global advocacy strategy. Take part in the section’s system for media duty during evenings and weekends. Any other tasks and responsibilities falling under the sections mandate, as instructed by the line manager.Specific responsibilities:
Responsible for managing incoming global media requests, build and maintain NRC’s strong network of media contacts internationally and its solid reputation among journalists. Help strengthen NRC’s media work in the Nordics by developing media plans, building strong media contacts, writing, editing, and translating media products, and pitching. Actively pitch, coordinate and manage interviews for senior and other NRC staff and spokespersons, including managing the NRC’s studio. Support on media monitoring and reporting.lease download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.
What you will bring:
Minimum 3 years of relevant experience. Minimum a bachelor’s degree within communications, journalism, social sciences, or similar fields. Professional knowledge of communications, public relations, or journalism. Knowledge of the humanitarian sector. Fluency in Norwegian and English, both written and verbal. Excellent writing, editing and language skills and experience in writing and editing wide-reaching public documents. High level of flexibility. Ability to initiate and drive work forward.What we offer:
Duty station: Oslo, Norway Contract: National Temporary Contract - Up to 31st Dec 2024. Salary/benefits: Grade 8 on NRC’s regional salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability. We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC
Important information about the application process:
Internal candidates only: please click on the suitcase icon labelled “I am an employee” to be redirected to NRC’s internal careers site.
When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.
Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position.
The deadline for submitting your application is 21st January.
If you have any questions about this role, email ho.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.
Why NRC?
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.
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Learn more about NRC The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.