About the Role
At CHEVS, communication is political. It is how we build collective imagination, counter anti-rights narratives, and make visible the struggles and brilliance of queer, feminist, and youth movements across Africa.
In recent years, CHEVS has undergone significant growth, including deep strategic work, to centre communications and influence as core elements of our strategy – the Strategic Communications Specialist acts to deepen and further embed this work, bolstering the communications team with an aligned organisational agenda and complimenting philanthropic, regional and global influence agendas and supporting CHEVS to strengthen its feminist strategic communications in a manner that reflects CHEVS’ ambitions, politics, movement spirit, and intersectional feminist vision.
The Strategic Communications specialist is a strategic, organised, creative, self-motivated experienced Communications leader and acts as the primary pen holder of CHEVS, with a sharp decolonial feminist political analysis to build a culture of strategic communications for influence and boldly position the organisation as a driver of change.
This position requires a person who is adept at asymmetric strategic communications, detail-oriented, efficient, and accurate, with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and a passion for queer, feminist, Pan-Africanist politics and movement building.
This role leads renewal and revamping of approaches to stewardship of CHEVS’ collective voice, narrative identity, and storytelling practice, ensuring that everything we create, from advocacy campaigns and reports to digital content and convenings, carries the heartbeat of our politics: decoloniality, Pan-Africanism, justice, care, resistance and youth power.
The Strategic Communications Specialist will work closely with the team to update CHEVS’ communications approaches and to ensure that the organisation is optimised in its work to amplify movement stories, shift narratives, and influence the discourse on rights, equality, and freedom in Africa.
Job Title :STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
Location: Remote (Africa)
Scope of Work
1. Communications/Content Strategy and Leadership
- Update, develop and drive a communications and narrative strategy aligned with CHEVS’ organisational strategic plan and advocacy strategy to increase visibility, resources, and impact of CHEVS.
- Leading content development (including framing, writing and editing) and managing publication/updates of impact stories and annual reports, website content, email campaigns, and newsletters.
- Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a year round schedule of integrated external communications including initiating and leading content development and managing publication/updates of impact stories and annual reports, email campaigns, and newsletters.
- Translate complex programme, research, or policy work into clear, compelling stories and key messages.
- Lead the development of clear messaging to influence thinking linked to our regional and global agendas and generate strategic coverage in social media and mainstream media (including print).
- Develop and implement a digital communications strategy and oversee the coordination of CHEVS social media presence; maximising reach and ensuring a consistent voice across social media, and create, edit, and share social media content across channels as identified (this may include Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Oversee the maintenance, updating and content creation for the CHEVS website to ensure that it is dynamic, accessible, and mobile friendly, including developing a plan for enhanced visibility and usability.
- Manage all media inquiries as required.
- Develop and put in place risk mitigation and crisis management processes to safeguard the organisation in relation to external communications.
2. Team Oversight and Strengthening
- Develop and strengthen an integrated and functioning communications team and cultivate a collaborative and positive work environment that promotes alignment across CHEVS portfolios, learning and innovation.
- Oversee review of 2026 work plan and development of annual (2027) work plan, and manage ongoing work of the team.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to team members, fostering their growth.
- Lead the development of organisational materials for positioning and resource mobilisation; including but not limited to videos, brochures, two-pagers, flyers, merchandise, press releases etc.
3. Evaluation and Monitoring
- Manage media monitoring strategies and provide regular updates and reports on media coverage to track and analyse media coverage and to support the positioning of CHEVS in key debates for influence.
- Oversee the collection, analysis and report on analytics to inform CHEVS communications strategy, understand our audiences, and optimise engagement efforts across mediums.
4. Leadership
- Contribute to and ensure the communications work is guided by overall CHEVS strategies, politics and practice.
- Foster a culture of strategic communications across the organisation and create and implement systems, training, and practices that support staff as strategic communicators.
- Contribute to the work of the CHEVS influencing team through inter alia representing CHEVS in power spaces, driving campaigns, and ensuring online and offline influence at scale.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Compensation
The monthly salary range for this position is US$1,500–2000, based on experience.
Non-monetary benefits include the opportunity to make significant strategic contributions to an innovative and respected movement support organisation with a global presence, a supportive and feminist work environment that encourages leadership development, and the ability to work remotely and travel internationally.
CHEVS is also a 4 day work week organization.
Type of Contract
This is a full-time role on a fixed term contract for an initial period of six months with the possibility of renewal based on performance.
Application Deadline: Thursday, 26 November 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use Send your CV and portfolio to: [email protected]
Interviews are on a rolling bases until position is filled.
