Community Coordinator at Code for Africa

• The successful candidates will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team using digital collaboration tools to create content for a global audience and international media partners.

Required: minimum requirements include:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in community management or a related field, working directly with groups and individuals.
• Excellent project management skills, including handling multiple priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Experience delivering on contractual project requirements and producing regular reports for monitoring purposes.
• Experience organising and coordinating local and international events and community outreach (including offline, online, and hybrid events).
• Comfortable with facilitating and delivering training, skills coaching and mentoring.
• Significant experience in stakeholder engagement, with a proven ability to build relationships and engage with diverse audiences, including academics, journalists, storytellers, data analysts, researchers, technologists, and editors.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, written and verbal, for large and small groups, in-person and via phone and email.
• Experience designing and implementing community-informed research strategies, including writing and designing surveys and questionnaires to solicit feedback on various topics.
• Familiarity with growth and impact metrics, as well as web analytics
• Ability to work creatively and accurately under pressure, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multitask, prioritise, and manage time efficiently.
• Proficiency in the English language (spoken and written).

Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Experience working in the technology, non-profit and/or media environments will be advantageous.
• An understanding of database management and familiarity with spreadsheets. 
• Experience managing content distribution, such as blogs and stories through various channels, including social media, and websites (Medium, WordPress). 
• Good working knowledge of HTML, WordPress and SEO. 
• Experience working with a multinational and fully remote organisation.
• Bilingual in English and French (spoken and written).