Digital Communications Officer

Main Purpose

The Digital Officer is an essential member of the Communications team. The post will focus on ensuring that MSF’s digital channels in Russian reflect MSF’s institutional messaging and are engaging and appealing.

Main tasks:

Managing MSF Russian language social media

• To actively participate in the process of relaunch and redesign of MSF social media channels according to the comms strategy and existing MSF guidelines for digital content
• To assist Head of communications in the process of finding contractors (PR agency/designer) for social media redesign
• To assist in development of social media strategy, insure its realization and to adapt it according to the current needs based on regular evaluation
• To create content plan and to manage the day-to-day release of MSF content on MSF social media channels
• Promote MSF posts on social media platforms in order to raise awareness about MSF activities in the Russian-speaking social media segment
• To adapt international AV content from MSF multimedia database for social media, create original content.

Managing the Russian-language website

• To facilitate the process of development of new MSF website (to ensure close collaboration with digital team of the MSF movement, outsource tecnichal consultant and to track the work of developers)
• To manage the Russian-language website, maintain contact with the developers
• To use SEO techniques and other technical opportunities in order to ensure MSF’s online content is easily found by potential Russian-speaking audiences.

Podcast:

• To identify platforms and technical tools for podcast in Russian language
• To participate in process of content creation for podcast, editing it, publishing and promoting it.

Other tasks:

• Analyze the audience of website and social media accounts, provide statistics on regular basis
• Provide social media monitoring on regular basis, conduct specisic search when requested
• Provide AV/digital support for HR and engagement activities
• Select AV content for media on request
• To identify needs for external contractors (designers etc.), manage their work.

Education

Essential: degree in Journalism, Communications or related university degree.

Experience

Essential: previous working experience of at least one year in communications, experience managing websites and SMM, portfolio of accounts.

Languages

Fluency in both written and oral English (B2 or higher), Russian (native speaker) is a requisite Experience in Translating/Interpreting (Russian<>English).

Knowledge

Writing skills, AV content creation, SEO. Advanced computer skills and knowledge of monitoring programs, Adobe creative cloud.

Competenses:

Flexible,

Stress resilient

Quality oriented (attentive to detail, able to work with data)

Self-organized and able to multitask

Team player, easy- going, friendly

Enthusiastic and fun, willing to develop in HR area

Willing to work in line with organizational values and translate them to other colleagues and candidates.

Conditions

• Full-time employment, office in the center of Moscow
• Business trips as per job requirements (other regions of Russia, Belarus and abroad if required)
• Competitive salary, annual loyalty bonus
• Employment according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation
• 5 weeks (25 working days) annual holidays per year
• Medical insurance after 3 months probation period
• Internal trainings
• PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICATIONS WITHOUT CV AND MOTIVATION LETTER IN ENGLISH WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
• DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS AUGUST 14, 2024
• The position will be closed when the successful candidate is identified – in other words we keep open the possibility to screen CVs, interview also when the vacancy is still open and close the vacancy in case we find the successful candidate before the deadline indicated in HH.