Communication Advisor Global Projects

VVOB is an international NGO with projects in 9 countries worldwide. Our Head Office is based in Brussels, Belgium.

When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We implement our projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, we support governmental and other education actors worldwide, to realise quality education for all.

Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?

Do you still feel like you are in the right place? Great, because we are hiring a Communication Advisor for VVOB’s communication department at Head Office in Brussels, to lead on external communication of our global projects.

Purpose of the function:

• The Communication Advisor forms a bridge between the technical team of Global Strategic Education Advisors and the communication department at Head Office
• The Communication Advisor strengthens the global project communication
• and works on VVOB’s corporate external communication with content about and input from the global projects

Y our tasks:

For global project communication, your responsibilities include:

• developing communication products and outputs as required for the quality implementation and results of global projects
• developing communication plans and strategies for global projects
• providing innovative ideas for project communication to strengthen the quality implementation of global projects

For global external communication, your responsibilities include:

• content development about VVOB’s global projects
• keeping abreast of VVOB’s contributions to international conferences and other events that showcase the organisation’s in-house expertise and proposing innovative ideas to highlight these contributions
• supporting the development of external communication products and outputs at Head Office, including newsletters, factsheets, concept notes and technical briefs, VVOB annual reports, folders, and brochures

• Master’s degree in communication, journalism or similar.
• At least 3 years of experience workingin communication with an international organisation. Experience working in project communication is a strong plus.
• An innovative mindset and progressive, out-of-the-box approach to communication.
• Excellent English writing skills.
• Good understanding of digital, social, traditional,and other media, and how they are best used for specific purposes.
• Familiarity with or interest in the education sector.
• Excellent computer skills in MS office. Experience with other relevant tools and technologies for communication are a strong plus.
• Authorised to work in Belgium.
• Native-level proficiency in English. Additional language skills are a plus, Dutch and Spanish especially.