Regional Communications Strategist - Migration (Remote)

AFSC job board; Tijuana; Remote; MXN 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Friends Service Committee is seeking a Regional Communications Officer to lead narrative change and regional communications for the Latin America and the Caribbean program. The role emphasizes strategic messaging, media engagement, and coordinating with Philadelphia to ensure brand consistency.

Location is flexible within Latin America with remote work and travel across the region. The candidate should have a strong background in social change communications, at least 5 years’

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in social communications, journalism, social sciences, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience designing and implementing communications strategies for civil society organizations or networks, national or international NGOs, international cooperation agencies, or intergovernmental bodies.
• Experience in communications for social change, communications for development, strategic communications targeting diverse audiences, and narrative change.
• Knowledge of the context of forced migration, displacement, and human rights in Mexico and Central America.
• Experience working with vulnerable communities, grassroots organizations, and/or civil society networks in Latin America is desirable.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating communications activities and managing digital impact metrics is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and communications for narrative change.
• Develop and execute creative and innovative communications action plans aimed at key audiences, including local or community-based organizations, partner organizations, donors, decision-makers, media outlets, and the general public.
• Design, implement, and guide diagnostics and specific communications strategies to counter xenophobic, stigmatizing, and dehumanizing narratives toward people on the move.
• Implement participatory methodologies for narrative-building with a decolonial and intercultural approach.
• Support human rights monitoring and documentation efforts to generate evidence that underpins strategic communications and advocacy.
• Regularly update the editorial calendar and tools related to monitoring and evaluating activities.
• Generate periodic reports on the impact of activities
• Coordinate with the Communications Department in Philadelphia on aligning common messaging, the correct use of the institutional brand, and compliance with AFSC's communications protocols and standards.
• Collaborate on follow-up of activities under Pillar 1 (reintegration pathways) and Pillar 3 (evidence for advocacy), as needed by the regional team.
• Implement team capacity-strengthening actions in line with AFSC's regional communications strategy.
• Support the systematization of the program's experiences, lessons learned, and good practices to generate inputs for advocacy and communications.
• Contribute to the development and assessment of baselines to strengthen the program's monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system.
• Actively participate in planning, monitoring, strategic reflection, and internal coordination spaces of the regional team.
• Participate in coordination meetings with the Philadelphia communications department, as needed.

Skills

English proficiency

Spanish proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in social communications, journalism, social sciences

Tools

Canva

Adobe Suite

Job description

The American Friends Service Committee is seeking a Regional Communications Officer to lead narrative change and regional communications for the Latin America and the Caribbean program. The role emphasizes strategic messaging, media engagement, and coordinating with Philadelphia to ensure brand consistency.

Location is flexible within Latin America with remote work and travel across the region. The candidate should have a strong background in social change communications, at least 5 years’