Digital Communications Officer (Secondment)

Job Description

Position: Digital Communications Officer (secondment)

Location: Any ActionAid country office

Contract duration: September - 31 December 2025

Closing date:  29 August 2025 at 17.00 GMT

STRICTLY RECRUITMENT FOR ACTIONAID GS AND COUNTRY OFFICES

The Role:

This role provides vital support to the Communications Team by assisting in the creation and delivery of digital and social media assets for campaigning, storytelling, and humanitarian communications. In this supporting role, the postholder helps ensure that ActionAid’s digital content is engaging, accessible, and aligned with brand and campaign objectives, enabling the team to reach and inspire global audiences. The role works side by side with the social media and Content Manager to coordinate and carry out content-related activities. 

Please see further information in the job description

Who we're looking for: 

• Someone experienced in social media platforms: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn — and is able to use editing software to create graphics and edit short videos
  

• Proven track record of creating and scheduling posts across multiple social media platforms. 

• A team player who is willing to support with wide ranging communications activities, from uploading content on StoriesHub, to compiling monthly social media monitoring reports. 

You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

How to apply: 

Please click on the "apply” button to start the application process: 

Applications close on 29 August 2025 at 17.00 GMT. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. 

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us: 

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ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. 

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

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