Under the management of the Country Representative (CR), the Communications Officer will:

External Communications, Advocacy, and Dissemination

• Lead in the drafting and dissemination of key strategic outputs, notably stakeholder-targeted briefs across various research workstreams, to enhance access to REACH data and analysis, inform and influence strategic and programmatic humanitarian decision-making in Syria.
• Participate in regular coordination meetings with other NGOs within the policy and advocacy working groups, ensuring the timely communication of key REACH data to support evidence-based advocacy for the humanitarian response in Syria.
• Manage the Arabic translation workstream by coordinating the Translation and Dissemination Officer’s tasks, consolidating the translation portfolio, prioritizing select thematic outputs for translation, and ensuring targeted dissemination to Syrian stakeholders in line with the REACH Syria localization agenda.
• Support the definition and implementation of internal advocacy-related processes and tools, such as the communication, dissemination, and advocacy strategy for the country, unit guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, the advocacy calendar considering key events, research cycle or partners’ timeline
• Under the supervision of the CR, engage in and/or contribute to maintaining strategic partnerships and external communications with key stakeholders and decision-makers, including relevant UN agencies, donors, local and national government, and NGOs.
• Engage in cross-organisational conversations through regular exchanges and meetings with staff in HQ and other IMPACT missions, as well as through the Communications and Advocacy Community of Practice at the global IMPACT level to exchange best practices, consolidate knowledge, and foster sustainable peer-to-peer learning.
• Provide support to assessment staff on output design, review and dissemination for specific communications-style products developed within the research units.
• Under the direction of the CR, engage in the dissemination of research products (including through articles, IMPACT social media contents, targeted e-mails, presentations, meetings, etc…) in line with IMPACT Dissemination and External Communication Guidelines and Research ToRs
• Manage mass dissemination channels and tools at the level of the mission and streamline dissemination processes according to specific audiences.

Internal Communications

• Contribute as a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), including sharing relevant information, coordinating across unit/department managers, and ensuring efficient and productive links with Acted
• Coordination and collaboration with research units across the mission to ensure effective external engagement, including through joint outputs.
• Coordination and collaboration with field teams to gather local inputs and feedback, contextualize communications and increase dissemination on the ground.
• Organisation of meetings / information-sharing (i.e. external engagement updates, internal newsletter).

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Contribute to country team learning processes through evaluation of the success of the dissemination and communications activities and implement improvements if needed

Capacity building

• Develop and implement trainings based on IMPACT global standards and tools (e.g., train country staff using globally developed or validated resources such as templates, design, guidelines…)

Other responsibilities as required.