position title

position purpose

• fws grants applications
• fws grant reporting
• fws f4f sponsorship material
• gimme shelter e-newsletter content
  
• other fws sponsorship material
• fws media (assist in compiling information from Kesho Leo for editorial coverage or press releases, and coordinating photographic and interview requirements of media for stories to promote fws and Kesho Leo children’s village)
• fws website, facebook and twitter accounts
• fws blog
• fws corporate sponsorship document
• fws volunteer handbooks
• fws membership forms
• fws e-cards
• fws calendars
• fws about us info pamphlets
• fws educational PDFs (such as permaculture PDFs that are downloadable from fws website)
• fws PowerPoint presentations at events and talks
• gimme shelter e-newsletter
• fws organisational chart
• fws marketing and funding drives

responsibilities

Photography

• Continue to build the essential fws digital library (which supports the creation of all fws marketing, funding, operational material) by taking regular photos of all Kesho key areas in action, including:
  • mamas & kids
  • health
  • education
  • social welfare
  • building
  • fit-out
  • labourers
  • permaculture
  • community days
  • excursions
  • site tours
  • volunteers
  • volunteer village 
  • fws-Arusha meetings
  • all milestone Kesho events
• Each month, caption, tag, and upload these photos to a CD. Send this CD to Australia-based fws Photo Editor, to ensure that she can add the photos to fws’s precious digital photo library.

Website & online

• Write, take the photos for, and upload the Kesho Leo news update page
• Create and implement a schedule to ensure fellow Kesho volunteers regularly write posts and upload photos to the the blog.
• Ensure the fws Facebook page is updated regularly

Grants

• Liaise with fws-Australia Grants Team and Communications Team to fulfill any specific photographic requirements for the creation of grant applications and grant reports, by deadline.
  

gimme shelter e-newsletter

• Liaise with fws-Australia Communications Team to fulfill all specific photographic and writing requirements for the bi-monthly e-newsletter gimme shelter.
  

Media

• Liaise with fws Media Manager and assist in compiling information from Kesho Leo for editorial coverage or press releases. This involves organising information and quotes from Kesho Leo based volunteers within specific deadlines.
• Keep track of any local media interest about fws in Tanzania, and help to coordinate any media visits conducted on-site at Kesho Leo.

Sponsorship programs

• Liaise with fws-Australia Sponsorship Team and Communications Team to fulfill all specific photographic and writing requirements for the promo material created to launch of any fws sponsorship programs (How Sponsorship Works, Sign Up & Pay Up Forms, Meet Those You Sponsor letters).
• Liaise with fws-Australia Sponsorship Team and Communications Team to fulfil all specific photographic requirements to produce regular progress reports for each sponsorship program.
• Liaise with fws-Australia Sponsorship Team and Communications Team to round up Kesho volunteers required to submit information for both of the above areas.
• Fact check personally (and/or arrange fact-checking with relevant Kesho volunteers) before any of these materials are sent to the funders/potential funders.
  

fws info & promotional material

• Liaise with fws-Australia Communications Team to fulfil all specific photographic and writing requirements for the info & promo material fws creates regularly to fuel funding, disseminate essential information to volunteers or the public, and market our project, such as:
  • fws corporate sponsorship document
  • fws e-cards
  • fws calendars
  • fws about us info pamphlets
  • fws PowerPoint presentations at events and talks
  • fws volunteer handbooks
  • fws membership forms
  • fws organisational chart
  • fws educational PDFs (such as permaculture PDFs that are downloadable from fws website)
  • fws marketing and funding drives
    
• Run site tours and assist with scheduling of visitors to Kesho Leo
  

key performance indicators

• Kesho communications material (photos, info, writing) gets to fws-Australia by deadline.
• Kesho volunteers are managed to contribute to fws communications in an organised, planned way, so they enjoy the experience.
• fws-Australia, with your input, continues to produce communications material that is outstanding in its field.

liaise with

• Kesho Leo Manager
  
• fws Communications manager
• fws writers & editors
• fws photo editor
• fws website team
• fws media manager
• fws sponsorship program manager
• fws board and managers
• fws volunteers in Tanzania
  

report to

• fws Communications Manager (your team manager, based in Australia)
• fws Kesho Leo Manager (on-site)

pre-package

• Free accommodation (on-site)
• Monthly stipend 

skills & requirements

• An ability to take arresting photographs of all areas of the Kesho project.
• Vibrant, energetic, motivating, heart-warming, innovative writing skills
  
• Good working knowledge of Adobe InDesign will be an advantage.
• Super-powers when it comes to working to deadline and ensuring those around you also deliver to deadline via your exceptional organisational skills.
• Flair for juggling competing deadlines – you will be working with a number of Australian-based team managers and their various, sometimes overlapping deadlines.
• A willingness to carry out the role using your own laptop computer and quality digital camera
• An appreciation for the fact that this is the job of a lifetime.

are you the creative comms guru we need?