Asistente de Comunicación con Comunidades y Alianzas (Maracaibo)

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and addressing hunger. Operating in over 80 countries, WFP provides life-saving food assistance and works towards peace, stability, and prosperity for communities affected by conflict, disasters, and climate change. The organization focuses on improving nutrition, supporting smallholder farmers, preparing for climate-related disruptions, and strengthening human capital through school feeding programs. WFP received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its efforts.

Job Purpose

The Community and Alliance Communication Assistant will ensure the implementation of community communication actions, donor visibility, and reputation management. This role strengthens community dialogue, accountability, and the integration of community perspectives into program design and monitoring. The position also contributes to building relationships with local media, coordinating external missions, and applying differentiated approaches, including specific strategies for indigenous populations and persons with disabilities. The aim is to enhance local engagement and ensure effective communication between WFP and the communities it serves.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include ensuring the local implementation of donor visibility plans and providing visibility training to WFP teams and implementing partners. The role involves coordinating and facilitating community communication activities as part of program design, ensuring a cross-cutting focus on gender and inclusion, and adapting actions to specific contexts. This includes coordinating differentiated strategies for indigenous populations and persons with disabilities, and facilitating co-creation spaces for communication messages and products. The assistant will provide local insights to the central office for strategy development. Capacity building involves continuous training for field teams on programmatic actions and coordinating with community communication staff of implementing partners. Operational monitoring includes tracking community communication activities, participant engagement, and plan fulfillment, in close coordination with field implementation. The role also supports media relations, reputational risk management, and logistical/documentary preparation for missions and donor visits. Additionally, support will be provided for dialogues with local authorities and other required tasks by the Central Office or Partnerships & Communications Unit.

Work Experience

Requires 3 years of relevant experience. Experience or knowledge in designing training activities in community settings is essential. Experience in leading community dialogue processes and field participation is required. Experience working in difficult contexts is necessary. Desirable experience includes designing or co-creating community activities, working with indigenous populations, excellent report writing skills, strong interpersonal skills with cultural sensitivity, knowledge of gender and inclusion, and collaborative work with diverse partners and familiarity with communication for development approaches.

Skills

Key competencies include accountability, adaptability, flexibility, creativity, judgment, decision-making, planning, organization, professionalism, and self-management. Specific skills include communication, community development, excellent writing and reporting, interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity, gender and inclusion knowledge, and collaborative work with diverse stakeholders.

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