Communications Lead

ReliefWeb; Lacajunte; Hybride; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Une organisation à Calais recherche un Communications Lead pour renforcer ses activités de communication et de plaidoyer. Ce poste implique la coordination avec divers groupes de travail et requiert des compétences solides en communication et gestion de projet. Les candidats doivent avoir une expérience antérieure dans un contexte de migration et être passionnés par les droits humains.

Qualifications

• 3-4 ans d'expérience en communications et/ou gestion de projet.
• Expérience dans le contexte de la migration au UK-France.
• Engagement envers la solidarité interculturelle.

Responsabilités

• Coordonner les réunions avec le groupe de travail sur les communications et le plaidoyer.
• Élaborer et mettre en œuvre une stratégie de communication axée sur le plaidoyer.
• Gérer les relations avec les médias et planifier des publications sur les réseaux sociaux.

Connaissances

Communication écrite et orale

Gestion de projet

Outils

Canva

Logiciels de planification de publications

Description du poste

France

Communications Lead

Organization

• Calais Appeal
  
  

Posted 6 Jun 2025 Closing date 20 Jun 2025

Title: Communications Lead

Guided by: Regular check-ins with two long-term representatives from the Communications and Advocacy Working Group

Handover from: Two long-term representatives of the Working Group

Time Commitment: Initially hired for a 9 months minimum term, on 4 days a week (0.8 FTE) contract. Hope to extend the term subject to funding, potential to increase to 5 days a week, also subject to funding.

Starting date: Late July 2025

Location: Based in Calais. Flexible home office in Calais possible.

Salary: €1,441.40 (before tax - approximate conversion £1,214.67) with a French determined duration contract. Or, possibility of a freelance contract with an equivalent salary.

About Calais Appeal

Calais Appealis a consortium of independent organisations working at the UK-France border, principally in Calais and Grande-Synthe. They are; l’Auberge des Migrants, Calais Food Collective, Project Play, Refugee Women’s Centre, and Utopia 56.

Each organisation provides direct material support and essential services to displaced adults and children, including unaccompanied minors, stuck at the border. We created this coalition in 2022 to be more effective together, to avoid duplication of work and to find collaborative solutions to common challenges.

Calais Appeal is an operational consortium: we deal with administration, safeguarding, finance, communications and advocacy, as well as building the individual capacity of our member organisations in each area. Although our members provide direct material support and services to displaced communities, this is not part of the remit of Calais Appeal.

Mission Statement

Calais Appeal aims to enhance the capacity, professionalism, reach, and stability of each member organisation through collaborative efforts, ensuring effective and sustainable support for people on the move in the UK-France border zone.

Role And Job Purpose

We are looking for a Communications Lead to support us in re-establishing and facilitating our Communications and Advocacy Working Group. We are re-hiring this position which has been vacant for a year, so we are looking for an experienced and motivated candidate who can help us rebuild this axis of Calais Appeal.

The purpose of this role is to help Calais Appeal as a consortium to carry out effective and consistent communications activities to raise awareness of the situation for people on the move on the UK-France border and the hostile politics at the border. Awareness-raising should be done with a view to engaging a broader audience, and all activities should be carried out with the goal of advancing our advocacy aims and demands, which are being re-written in early 2025. This role will also be crucial in rebuilding capacity within our Communications and Advocacy Working Group, which we hope will stand us in a strong position to expand from communications into broader advocacy work by the end of this year.

The role also includes working alongside two more commonly hired employees; a Fundraising Lead and Coordinator, as well as a Safeguarding and Welfare Lead.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate fortnightly meetings with the Calais Appeal Communications and Advocacy Working Group.
• Help the members formalise and implement an advocacy-centred communications strategy.
• Give strategic and capacity building support to each member in their own communications activities (including media and press relations).
• Act as a central contact for media and press relations of Calais Appeal, including facilitating journalist visits, drafting press releases and representing Calais Appeal at external events.
• Plan and produce social media posts under a regular deadline (x3 a week) in order to raise awareness and further the advocacy goals of Calais Appeal.
• Proactively gather social media content from Calais Appeal member organisations.
• Website and email management.
• Draft and send a monthly newsletter, and help us grow the newsletter subscribers.
• Help the members to better collect, collate and disseminate data together.
• Proactively search for opportunities to raise visibility of the situation on the UK-France border and the work of Calais Appeal, for example at conferences, events and demonstrations.
• In collaboration with both the Communications and Advocacy and Fundraising Working Groups, implement crowdfunding campaigns and ensure supporting content aligns with our principles and tone.
  
  

Requirements

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• A strong belief in the equal right of movement for all persons, and a commitment to challenging the policies and rhetoric which lead to the inhumane living conditions and human rights abuses we witness in the border zone.
• A commitment to anti-racism, anti-white saviorism and intercultural solidarity.
• Knowledge of the current context of migration at the UK-France border.
• Experience working in a similar border context and/or with displaced communities.
• Ability to work flexibly and adaptively regarding the ever-changing situation at the border.
• Previous experience in communications, project management and/or advocacy.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to balance multiple projects, meet deadlines and prioritise effectively, whilst working collaboratively.
• A willingness to speak at public events.
• The ability to implement a functioning communications strategy for the consortium.
  
  

Desired

• Written and verbal communication skills in French strongly desired.
• Experience of working in consortiums or non-hierarchical structures.
• Proven copywriting skills and ideally experience in running communications and creating online content for social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X).
• Experience in public speaking and/or working with the press.
• Technical skills; website editing, post scheduling software, Canva, Action Network, Google domains, Bluehost, video and/or photo editing knowledge.
  
  

How to apply

Send your CV and a cover letter (in English) and attach any examples of your work (e.g. articles, press releases, social media content) to [e-mail] before 11.59pm on 20/06/2025. Interviews are due to take place between 30/06/2025 and 09/07/25.

Calais Appeal encourages and welcomes applications from applicants with diverse backgrounds including lived experience as a displaced person. Calais Appeal welcomes all applicants, regardless of religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability or nationality.

Job details

Country

• France
  
  

City Calais Source

• Calais Appeal
  
  

Type

• Job
  
  

Career category

• Advocacy/Communications
  
  

Years of experience

• 3-4 years
  
  

Theme

• Protection and Human Rights
  
  

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