Communications Senior Associate - Mexico City

<p>At the Rainforest Alliance, we are building an alliance to create a better future for people and nature by making responsible business the new normal. To advance our mission, we focus on amplifying our impact on the ground through systemic transformation: change across the entire supply chain, change in the relationship between people and nature, and change within our own organization. We achieve this transformation by working in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders to create a stronger Alliance. Together, we amplify the voices of farmers and forest communities, improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity, and help people adapt to climate change in bold and effective ways. We embrace transparency because we believe that the best way to build trust across our alliance is through openness about our tactics, our impact, and partners on the ground. Together, we can achieve our vision of a world where people and nature thrive in harmony.</p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Position summary:</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">As part of the Mexico Alliance for Sustainable Landscapes and Markets, the Communications Senior Associate will be responsible of developing and executing the communications strategy for this initiative, in close collaboration with both the regional team and the international communications team. She/he will be also responsible for developing assets that support communication with USAID officials, National and Subnational government officials, farmers, foresters, tourism entrepreneurs, and other key stakeholders in the regions of implementation.</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)"> </strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Responsibilities:</strong> </p><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Work with regional team and international communications team to develop and implement a communications strategy for the Mexico Alliance for Sustainable Landscapes and Markets initiative;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create visual branding for project. Hire consulting graphic designer to develop project logo, fonts and colors to be used on promotional materials and tools. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Enforce Rainforest Alliance organizational branding and communication protocols as well as donor requirements for all other communication products;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Plan and execute stakeholder communications for government institutions, farmers, NGOs, etc.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Travel to the field to gather storytelling collateral and ensure that external communications are aligned with ground-level realities]</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Provide storytelling assets to colleagues, journalists, and collaborating businesses and organizations as needed;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ensure that publications, including Web site, Twitter, Facebook and other social media are attractive, accurate and well written; </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create compelling storytelling content about the initiative for the global RA website and social media channels.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Secure proactive media placements for stories about the initiative, including pitching journalists, effective follow-up, and efficient fielding of media inquiries. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Plan and manage press trip to field projects so that the initiative accomplishments are accurately and favorably spotlighted;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Oversee the development of a project website. Hire a consulting website developer and designer, create information architecture and content strategy, and write content for the website. Ensure website is regularly updated with content. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Set up and manage social media accounts to promote the project to key stakeholders. Post content multiple times per week and monitor social media metrics to gauge success.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Represent the Mexico Alliance for Sustainable Landscapes and Markets initiative as needed in meetings with collaborating businesses, organizations and other stakeholders when meetings relate to the communications and marketing strategies; and</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Participate and develop project proposals related with communications;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Coordinate and contract consultancies related with communication activities; </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Coordinate translations of site content and products;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor. </li></ul><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)"> </strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Qualifications:</strong> </p><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Bachelor’s degree preferred in Communications, Public Relations or related field</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in journalism or public information and media outreach, including at least 3 years directly working with journalists;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Must have excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office and Internet) and comfort working with database programs</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Spanish;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Strong skills in spoken and written English. (preferred); </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Experience in Social Media and/or other Web 2.0 fields;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ability to work within a team structure as well as independently, be creative, take initiative, be attentive to detail and possess excellent interpersonal communication skills</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Strong interest and some experience in biodiversity conservation issues; experience in agriculture, ecotourism, forestry, climate change and sustainable rural development</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ability to travel a minimum of 20% of the time national and international.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Excellent skills for photo and video shooting;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Excellent interpersonal skills, to act culturally, linguistically and diplomatically with diverse internal and external audiences</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a time sensitive manner. </li></ul><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Salary:</strong></p><p>Commensurate with experience.</p><p> </p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Deadline: </strong>September 10, 2021</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)"> </strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgb(23, 82, 89)">Notes:</strong></p><p><strong style="color: black">Only candidates authorized to work in Mexico will be considered.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: recruitment@ra.org </strong></p>