Communications Manager: Tunisia – Expectation State Retour vers les opportunités

Nature of Engagement: Permanent contract
Title: Community and Communications Manager
Line Management: ES Tunisia Country Representative
Inputs: Full-time, Tunisia

Context of the Role:
Expectation State is a purpose driven company, committed to tackling the toughest problems in Emerging States.
We provide a different approach to private sector development in our focus countries, offering a specialist vehicle to
increase the quantity and quality of investment emerging states attract.
Our largest geographic focus is currently Tunisia, but we also have ongoing interests in Jordan and Lebanon. Our
communications, however, have a global audience, as we seek to change the policy and practice of how emerging
states are supported.
Expectation State is becoming increasingly active in the release of research, analysis and opinion pieces. We have
developed an online platform that aims to provide insights, analysis and research pieces related to countries where
we are operating and themes related to our work. We aim to build ES influence and outreach within government
investment ecosystems.
We believe that we need to better communicate our activities and aspirations in Tunisia and elsewhere. We are
looking for a community and communications manager, to be based in Tunis, who can develop and manage the
growth of our community in Tunisia while also supporting our global communications efforts.

Role:
Tunisia-focused Community and Communications – 50%
■ We need you to manage and deliver our public communication in Tunisia. Working closely with our Tunisia country team and research lead, you’ll work
to develop a content plan, adapt current content and create new engaging communications for all platforms, on and offline.
■ You will develop our online presence (website and social media), and promote our brand and presence on social media. You will be required to understand all our products including research and insight pieces, articles, and activities, and promote them through suitable channels to reach our key audiences.
■ You will be the point of contact for our online community. You will need to actively engage online, responding to comments and requests, analysing web traffic and relevant community metrics, and relay community feedback to the
internal team with requests to support in developing this engagement.
■ We expect you to monitor new trends, information and activities related to our areas of interest, delivering weekly media reports and presenting on emerging trends to the team from time to time.

Global External Communications – 20%
■ Working with the guidance of a senior communications professional, we need you to identify and map channels in social and mainstream media to highlight where and how we can strategically promote and communicate our work. This means building relationships with journalists, influencers and key thought leaders on our core business topics offline and online, identifying key entry points and working across the business to build the appropriate content and
ways to channel it.
■ In addition, you will work with our Directors to promote our thought leadership. As part of our monitoring and mapping, you will plan engagement with those that are relevant to the issues at the core of our business activities,
to develop awareness and promote our thought leadership.

Internal Data and Knowledge Management – 20%
■ We need to be smarter about how we work. We would like you to build ways to map and record the data we collect and content we create. Manage oueinternal content and figure out ways to collect and use our data more
efficiently.
Project Communications – 10%
■ Our projects occasionally have a communications element. When necessary we would like you to work with our government counterparts to support their communication efforts around specific events or initiatives.

Profile:
We are looking for a digital-savvy individual, with experience of communications management in a business setting. We’d like it if you had experience of operating social media accounts (Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter) and knowledge of programmes to manage online postings on different platforms.

A strong background in marketing, communication, and data management is highly valued. We also expect strong verbal and writing skills and fluency in English, French and Arabic. An interest or previous experience in international development is a plus.
This role would suit a second career move for a competent and ambitious graduate.
We will work with you to develop your skills as a communications practitioner and manager to enable you to deliver your work to the best of your ability. We are looking for someone who wants to learn and evolve their professional skills and knowledge, doing so alongside the needs of our company as we develop and grow in the future.