Essential:

• Demonstrably solid news judgement and excellent written and verbal communications skills; proven track record in journalism or media-related experience; knowledge of international and/or regional media;
• Demonstrable competence and enthusiasm for delivering content across all media tools, channels, and platforms;
• Drive to achieve maximum coverage coupled with understanding and appreciation for good collaborative working processes;
• Ability to develop overarching media and social media strategies and messaging for key confederation-wide projects.
• Ability to articulate complex issues, especially economic issues, in an accessible manner, with flair and precision;
• Ability to liaise with a wide range of people, both internally and externally and at many levels, with credibility, tact and diplomacy;
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with ability to lead, influence and motivate others;
• Effective negotiation abilities and informal leadership skills in a multi-stakeholder, multi-cultural, network environment;
• Understanding of media-related reputation risk and mitigation/management;
• Research, monitoring and evaluation skills;
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Desirable:

• Fluency in other languages, especially French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic.
• Experience in social media.
• Experience filming and/or editing video content.