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The Feed the Future Kenya Investment Mechanism (KIM) Program is a USAID-funded activity that will unlock financing and investment by addressing two principal market failures that have discouraged investors from financing certain segments of the clean energy and agriculture sectors: 1) insufficient quality consulting services (financial, transaction advisory, strategy and business performance), and 2) limited availability of financial products tailored to agriculture and clean energy.
To address these failures, KIM will create a sustainable, market-based ecosystem for finance and investment through mobilizing capital into the horticulture, dairy, livestock, and clean energy value chains (VCs), and facilitating an enabling environment conducive to investment. This program will mobilize private capital into target VCs through innovative smart incentives and building partnerships with key actors that can deliver access to market, know-how, and technology to drive VC competitiveness. Concurrently, KIM will lead policy reform efforts focused on removing barriers inhibiting large-scale investment into the target sectors, therefore unlocking further finance. The two objectives of KIM will result in the project serving as an investment platform that mobilizes substantial capital from the public and private sectors and builds partnerships between stakeholders in the financial ecosystem, ultimately contributing to USAID’s overall goal of fostering broad-based, sustained, and inclusive economic growth in Kenya.
The Role:
The Communications Manager will lead the implementation of the communications plan and related KIM communications tools and disseminate these to inform key audiences as well as the client of project progress and successes. The Communications Manager will support KIM to use communications tools and mediums to stimulate the supply and demand for finance and investment by sharing best-practices, partner successes, and resources available through KIM’s partner networks. (S)he will manage the writing, editing, and formatting of project deliverables produced by technical staff to deliver high-quality documents. The Communications Manager is also responsible for developing outreach materials, planning and implementing events, and curating social media, news articles, and other media communications materials.
- Support the development of project deliverables and ensure quality control, including coordinating information gathering for weekly, quarterly, annual reports and annual work plans, one-pagers, reports, etc. Contribute to the sections of deliverables related to M&E and communications
- Oversee the design and roll-out of all tools to effectively communicate project activities and results, making complex concepts accessible and actionable to a wide audience by developing strategies for creating key messages, fact sheets, social media posts, and creative digital materials.(website, videos, visual images, Investment Mapping System, press releases, flyers, etc.)
- Develop compelling narratives for communications content that can take the form of human-interest stories, case studies, social media graphics, newsletters, etc.
- Develop outreach materials, planning and implementing events, and curating communications materials to support development of project events and workshops in collaboration with project teams
- Ensure appropriate branding and marking for all communications tools
- Maintain project library of all communications tools, photos, and events in a digital format
- Conduct media relations for the project, including targeted publicity for project activities and responses to queries from press. Write press releases, organize press conferences, schedule interviews for spokespersons for the project, etc.
- Maintain a close and collaborative relationship with USAID and the U.S. Embassy teams on all outreach and communications efforts
- Manage Short-Term Technical Assistance for communications efforts (editors, graphic designers, video production teams, Investment Mapping System, photographers, etc.)
- Carry out all other duties deemed necessary, including support to the KIM Chief of Party as required
- Undergraduate degree in English, Communications, Journalism, International Relations, or a related field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in branding, marketing, or communications-related work, especially complex communications and storytelling for external audiences of an organization or company
- Experience in communications, outreach, and/or marketing in a regional or global context, preferably on a USAID project
- Experience in developing and managing marketing, outreach, or PR activities and creating communications strategies and plans
- Understanding of economic development, finance and investment, and/or enterprise development and previous experience in these areas a plus.
- This position is open to Kenyan resident nationals
Key competencies and professional expertise required
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
- Microsoft Office suite proficiency and the ability to operate spreadsheet and word-processing programs at a highly proficient level
- Ability to manage and satisfy competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing, and lead presentations, training courses, and effective meetings
- Online campaign and digital strategy experience a plus
- Outstanding interpersonal communications skills enabling the individual to work with people at all levels internally and externally and around the world
- Demonstrated integrity, independent thinking, judgment, and respect for others
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