Digital Communications Specialist | Big Blue Communications

Big Blue is looking for a skilled Digital Communications Specialist to enhance our communication efforts. This role involves research, copywriting, and editing for various applications such as press releases, social media, reports, e-learning courses, and websites.

You will contribute to creative projects, including animation scripts, social media campaigns, e-learning courses, and capacity-building initiatives for grassroots NGOs. Field visits with film crews, photographers, and researchers will be part of your role, allowing you to gather data and craft compelling narratives.

Additionally, you will manage social media accounts and strategies for several clients, including budget management for ad boosting. You will coordinate with a team of expert artists, animators, editors, and producers, play a key role in client correspondence, and help drive projects to successful completion. Your strategic input will support the development of the company’s long-term knowledge management.

Overview

• Job types: Full Time
• Job locations: Bangladesh
• Full-time, 24-year contract
• Job Status: Hybrid 
• Contract to be extended based on performance

Duties

• You love the written language
• You recognise the power of great writing, storytelling and messaging to create positive change for our clients and for our team
• You are actively aware of writing tone, voice, clarity, and accuracy
• You want to work in a growing team that moves fast on its mission to support international development programmes around the world
• “Get things done” mindset that will help a growing team find even greater success
• Always be helpful, kind and willing to go the extra mile for your teammates and clients

Responsibilities

Digital engagement strategy

• Produce powerful digital strategies and campaigns that lead to engagement, behaviour change, downloads, and views
• Maximise impact of digital content, including web and social content, publications, video, animation, and newsletters
• Manage social media accounts and related ads, insights and analytics reporting
• Lead production of web and social content in collaboration with Big Blue experts

Content writing

• Coordinate editorial and review processes
• Lead research, writing, editing, proofreading, and delivery of content
• Strategise, plan, write, edit, and publish content for social media accounts
• Produce powerful content that includes case studies, film scripts, slides, presentations, reports, proposals and bids, and web and social media content
• Edit and proofread all documentation

Business and projects

• Seek opportunities for Big Blue’s team to support positive impact projects
• Communicate with clients and represent Big Blue to highest standards of professionalism
• Manage project timelines, work plans, deliverables, and client communication
• Coordinate projects, including client engagement, calendar management,
• submission of deliverables, and coordination with Big Blue technical experts
• Prepare expressions of interest, proposals and presentations for project opportunities

Requirements

• Clear, defined, and mature writing voice
• Publishing experience, with ability to manage all research, writing, and editing processes for publications, annual reports, reports, and policy briefs
• Absolute attention to detail, with ability to independently edit language, tone, spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Very strong English writing and presentation skills, and ability to edit, proofread, and support client’s and colleague’s content production
• Strong commitment to plain language principles, with the ability to convert technical content into clear, accessible language that engages non-technical audiences
• Portfolio of high-impact publications, digital campaigns, and web and social content
• Undergraduate degree in journalism, communications, public relations, English language, English literature or marketing
• 5+ years of experience in journalism, publication management, writing consulting, and/ or editing consulting
• Strong interpersonal, creativity, and communication skills
• Proficiency in the digital media landscape
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Team player with a collaborative and solution-oriented mindset

Ideal candidates

• Always helpful and kind to teammates and clients
• Strongly self-motivated with a completion mindset and ability to hit the ground running
• Always searching for new project opportunities, partnerships, collaborations, and potential teammates
• Thorough, and detail-oriented
• You bring energy

Terms

• 2-year full-time contract
• Available to join immediately

Why work with Big Blue

• Big Blue will support you in doing the best work of your career while you grow, while wholly supporting you to have a life well-lived out of work
• We work hard, but we deeply respect down-time, quiet time, and holidays
• You will work alongside highly skilled, supportive in-house professionals in a non-hierarchical system where everyone is only a Slack message away
• You will work with a very diverse portfolio of international projects, each with unique audiences and learning opportunities
• Our work supports social good and international aid projects that improve lives
• Big Blue moves fast, but there will always be someone to support when you need

How to apply for Digital Communications Job 2024

Apply here: https://bigbluecomms.com/jobs/digital-communications-specialist/

Please note: Applicants must provide both a CV and a portfolio as part of their application.

How to ensure your application is properly reviewed

• Ensure your CV is up to date

• Provide a cover letter (up to 300 words)

• Share evidence of relevant portfolio e.g. web links, a Google Drive folder of work, etc

• Ensure that any links you supply work

• PLEASE NOTE: Using AI tools like ChatGPT to write any part of your application can negatively impact our assessment, and your application's chances for success. Your application is our very first look into your values and mindset. We seek candidates who share Big Blue values such as honesty, transparency, can-do mentality, willingness to work hard, and critical thinking skills. Write your application yourself.

What happens next?

• After the application period concludes, we will:
• Review all applications and identify those with highest potential
• We will email you and invite to have a chat with us either on video or an audio call
• Discuss your experiences and expectations
• We may call you again to have another set of discussions with more teammates
• We will make an offer to the highest-potential candidate
• We will respond to the highest-quality applications and will do our best to respond to all applications. We may be unable to respond to every application.

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Digital Communications Specialist