Technical Advisor, Communications

• PositionTechnical Advisor, Communications
• CompanyRaising Voices
• LocationKampala, Uganda
• Job TypeNot stated in the advert.
• CategoryCommunications, NGO, International Development Jobs in Uganda
• IndustryViolence prevention and communications
• DepartmentNot stated in the advert.
• DeadlineFriday, 13 November 2026, 5:00 PM EAT

Raising Voices is a Kampala-based activist organisation working towards a world in which women and children can flourish free from violence. Its website describes evidence-based prevention programmes rooted in the everyday realities of schools and communities, and support for partners using its methodologies.

The organisation groups its work under Practice, Learning and Influencing. It develops violence-prevention methods with partners, builds knowledge from implementation and uses those lessons to shape wider prevention work. Its approach centres community activism and feminist values, and involves partners including communities, schools, governments and non-governmental organisations.

Raising Voices’ Technical Advisor, Communications coordinates communications across the organisation and supports its public-facing identity, digital channels and institutional knowledge. The remit spans strategy and guidelines, website and social-media management, analytics, editorial development, publications and stories, knowledge organisation, media engagement, branding, crisis communications and safeguarding standards. The Advisor will work alongside the Learning, VAW and VAC coordinators, programme teams, management, IT, designers and service providers to align communications with organisational priorities and feminist values.

Alongside technical production, the post steers communication workplans and budgets, identifies opportunities to strengthen influence, and serves as a focal point for partners, donors, networks and external stakeholders. It also represents Raising Voices at events, coaches colleagues and consultants, and provides quality assurance for communications outputs. The advert combines strategic oversight with hands-on delivery, cross-team coordination and staff development, with attention to consent, confidentiality and data protection in public engagement.

• Lead and manage the organisation’s digital communication platforms, including its website and social-media channels, using analytics and audience insights to strengthen reach, engagement and impact.
• Develop, edit, produce and disseminate high-quality communication products, working with graphic designers and service providers on publications, stories, reports, audio-visual content and campaign materials.
• Support knowledge management by documenting, organising, archiving and making communication materials, institutional learning and key knowledge accessible.
• Build and maintain relationships with media practitioners and coordinate media engagement around Raising Voices’ work, impact stories and events.
• Ensure communication products and public-engagement activities uphold safeguarding, confidentiality, data-protection and consent standards, particularly when engaging women and children.
• Lead development, implementation and periodic review of the communications strategy and relevant guidelines in line with organisational priorities and feminist values.
• Serve as custodian of the Raising Voices brand, ensuring consistent messaging, visual identity, tone and quality across platforms and products.
• Identify strategic communication opportunities that strengthen the organisation’s influence.
• Keep abreast of communications trends, tools and digital analytics; work with IT to assess reach and impact and introduce value-aligned innovations.
• Coordinate crisis and risk communication with the management team, advising on potential risks and supporting timely, accurate, ethical and values-aligned responses.
• With programme teams, lead planning, monitoring and review of communication workplans and budgets for efficient use of resources, timely implementation and alignment of budgets with expenditure.
• Develop communication concepts, initiatives and procurement requests consistent with approved workplans, budgets and organisational priorities.
• Adhere to organisational policies, systems and procedures.
• Represent Raising Voices at national, regional and global forums and events as requested.
• Serve as a key communications focal point with partners, donors, networks and external stakeholders, ensuring consistent representation of Raising Voices’ positions, learning and evidence.
• Work in a feminist, collaborative and accountable manner with all members of Raising Voices.
• Drive performance, learning and professional development through goal-setting and continuous growth.
• Promote learning and reflection by sharing insights from implementation, research and organisational processes.
• Strengthen communications capacity and quality through staff support, coaching, and oversight of communications consultants and service providers.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to staff and other stakeholders contributing to communications products and initiatives.
• Carry out any other related duties assigned.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, public relations or related fields.
• A master’s or postgraduate qualification is an added advantage.

Work Experience

• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in communication, media engagement and knowledge management within an NGO.
• Strong experience managing multiple social-media platforms, digital tools, analytics and communication products for diverse audiences.
• Experience developing and implementing organisation-level communications strategies, preferably in a feminist, human-rights or social-justice organisation.

Additional Requirements

• Strong commitment to human rights, violence prevention and feminist organisational practice.

Technical Skills

• Strategic communications planning: Plan communications in line with organizational priorities.
• Knowledge management: Document, organize, archive and make knowledge accessible.
• Stakeholder engagement and influencing: Engage stakeholders and support communications that strengthen influence.
• Digital communications and analytics: Manage digital channels and use analytics to understand reach and engagement.
• Brand management: Maintain consistent messaging, visual identity, tone and quality.
• Risk communication: Support timely, accurate, ethical and values-aligned responses to communication risks.

Soft Skills

• Personal integrity, accountability and transparency: The advert lists these behavioural competencies.
• Collaboration and teamwork: The advert lists collaboration and teamwork as behavioural competencies.
• Innovation and creativity: The advert lists innovation and creativity as behavioural competencies.
• Learning orientation: The advert lists learning orientation as a behavioural competency.

Competitive salaries and benefits, as well as a supportive, dynamic and engaging work environment where creativity, learning and activism can thrive.

• Shape communications across a Kampala-based violence-prevention organisation.
• Coordinate digital platforms, media relations, publications, stories and campaign materials.
• Help set communications strategy and protect a consistent organisational brand.
• Work across Learning, VAW and VAC teams, management, IT and programme colleagues.
• Combine strategic planning with hands-on communications production and quality assurance.
• Support feminist, safeguarding-aware public engagement and knowledge management.
• Coach staff and service providers while contributing to a learning-oriented communications function.

Submit a one-page reflective cover letter explaining your interest, your CV and academic documents, and complete the Google application form linked on the official vacancy page by Friday, 13th November 2026 at 5:00 PM EAT.

• Checked on 10 November 2026 against Raising Voices's official advert.
• Closing date confirmed as 13 November 2026. NextRoleHub closes the listing at 23:59 Kampala time that day.
• The application link goes to the employer's own page or email. Applying is free; report anyone who asks for money.
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