Posted:9 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Maritime
Description:
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. Our story started over a decade ago, surveying coral reefs in the Mozambique channel. Vezo communities in southern Madagascar were concerned about the decline of their fisheries, so we supported one village to experiment with closing off a small section of their octopus gleaning area for a few months, to see whether this might boost productivity. When the closure was re-opened, communities experienced a huge increase in octopus landings and fisher incomes. As news of this remarkable fishery boom spread, neighbouring communities started copying this approach. Crucially, this sparked interest in more ambitious coastal management efforts, leading to the creation of the countryโs first Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) governed by a small network of fishing villages. Since then, this temporary fishery closure model has gone viral along thousands of kilometres of Madagascarโs coastline, spawning a grassroots marine conservation revolution with 64 more LMMAs established to date. Today, 11% of the islandโs seabed is managed by communities, for communities. Our work is about much more than octopus. These experiences have guided our journey searching for new approaches to demonstrate that marine conservation can be in everyoneโs interest, and that taking less from our ocean can give us much much more.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Content creation and gathering (60%)
- Working closely with colleagues, you will coordinate, draft original content and focus on producing stories written, video, audio and photography stories in line with BV's strategic priorities, raising the profile of community-led marine conservation and small-scale fisheries management efforts in East Africa, highlighting the work of our team and partner organisations, and tracking stories for the BV blog and social media storytelling across platforms.
- Working with the Social Media Officer to disseminate EA information to an international audience in bite-sized communications outputs, i.e., photos, short videos, quotes, and social media reels.
- Contribute content from EAC to developing and delivering social media strategies
- and campaigns, providing regular short updates for our channels, capturing updates from our team and partners and sharing the latest in marine conservation, small-scale fisheries and BV's human rights-based approach to conservation, and celebrating partner and network news and events.
- Building & nurturing relationships with amplifier partners such as WIOMSA, Nairobi and Convention round-up, etc., to amplify BV's work in EAC.
- Work closely with the Digital Media Manager, with guidance from the Regional
- Comms Lead and Head of Communications, to feed into film and digital media strategy and to grow and nurture a collaborative multimedia group across the organisation.
- Building & nurturing relationships with country teams in EAC by leading regular catch-ups and updating colleagues on events, news and programmes from the region
Partner relationship & support (30%)
- Track communication opportunities across our BV's work, engaging proactively with colleagues and partners across sites in EAC to document learning and share stories.
- Provide communications support photography, videography, etc. – for BV and partner events in EAC
- Train partners on conservation storytelling techniques (storytelling, mobile photography and participatory video filming) as needed
- Support BV partners with the review of communications outputs and ideas as needed
- Contribute actively to BV's internal communications, raising the voice and profile of its work in East Africa to the global team
Tech support, project management & admin (10%)
- Lead on writing agendas, taking notes, planning itineraries, keeping Trello organised and running a tight organisational ship
- Set up photo and blogs, and news stories on the BV website and update photo and video libraries as needed.
- Contribute to collaborative systems for scheduling communications with our global communications team.
Skills and experience
Required
- Demonstratable experience in a communications role
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili
- Demonstrable skills in the communication of complex information to a diverse range of stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience in producing and managing content for online blogs, websites and social media platforms
- Competence in documentary photography & videography
- Understanding of participatory approaches to communications in a development context, including ethical considerations
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Confident, strong interpersonal skills and ability to relate to and work effectively with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, at all levels
- Capacity to undertake research and development work independently as well as part of an international team, collaborating remotely across time zones
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
