Senior Communication Consultant

About Legal Agenda:

The Legal Agenda is a Beirut-based non-governmental non-profit organization, with a branch in Tunisia. The organization addresses issues of legal activism, reform, and transformation in the context of social and political change in the Arab world. Legal Agenda’s team composed of jurists, researchers, and journalists aim to lift the barriers between the law and society in the Arab region so that those in power no longer monopolize lawmaking, and instead ordinary citizens can understand the process, criticize it, and participate in it.

LA’s specialized and alternative media platforms publish the organization’s socio-legal analysis and comparative research, policy monitoring articles, and journalistic investigations on a daily basis. The organization also engages in strategic litigation and advocacy campaigning to advance socio-economic rights and liberties, particularly on issues that affect the environment, the rights and freedoms of women, refugees, workers, detainees, disabled people, and other vulnerable groups.

Given the specialized but wide scope of the organization, LA’s target audience includes Legal professionals, social actors, community of issue, political actors, media outlets, and the general audience.

Main responsibilities:

In close a collaboration with the Legal Agenda team, the consultant will be responsible of:

1. Assessing the current performance of LA’s communication efforts through a thorough revision of its objectives, target audiences and modes of content production and dissemination.
2. Developing an actionable communication strategy, which includes a clear vision, guidelines, and objectives that integrate both our digital communication and offline communication efforts. 
3. Developing improved work protocols, recommendations for communication tools, needed trainings, and job descriptions for a new communication department at Legal Agenda

Experience:

Graduate in media studies, communications, public policy, or relevant field, with at least 5-7 years’ demonstrated experience in communications and outreach.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of digital media advertising strategies and analytics tools (e.g. google search console, google analytics, Facebook insights, twitter analytics, YouTube analytics etc.)
• Excellent analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully with a team
• Previous experience in communications for Alternative Media or content publishing platforms is a strong plus
• Demonstrated interest and familiarity in social and rights issue is a strong plus
• Strong written and spoken Arabic and English, French is a plus

Contact:

Please submit the following to [email protected] mentioning as subject of your email “Senior Communications Consultant Application.”

1. A curriculum vitae,
2. A cover letter demonstrating the relevance and strength of your experience for this position,
3. A short, 1-page intervention proposal, which
   • explains the methodology you will use for 1) the assessment, 2) the strategy development, and 3) the work protocols. Also include the envisioned mode of collaboration with the LA team (e.g. how many meetings, what will be requested from the team, how results of each phase will be shared with the team, e.g. via power point presentations or reports, etc.),
   • Specifies for each item the expected level of effort (e.g. number of days) and breakdown of fees
4. Contact for two references

Deadline to apply

The deadline to apply is June 5