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Short-term Consultancy Opportunity: Join Climate Investment Funds as a Communications Officer

Ednah Carrick January 14, 2025

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Closing Date: 17 January 2025

Short-term Consultancy Opportunity: Join Climate Investment Funds as a Communications Officer

Background

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) – one of the world’s largest multilateral funds, utilizes climate financing to help low and middle-income countries accelerate low carbon, climate-resilient development. CIF supports an inclusive and just climate-smart future, focusing on diverse partnerships that de-risk green markets and unlock additional investments and financing. To date, 15 contributor countries have pledged over US$12 billion to CIF. CIF committed capital is expected to leverage an additional US$65 billion in co-financing in over 80 recipient countries.

Since 2008, CIF has worked in the areas of clean technologies, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forests. And now, after identifying the next frontier of climate challenges, CIF is investing in
five new areas: the transition from coal, climate smart cities, nature-based solutions, industry decarbonization, and renewable energy integration.

Services Required

CIF is seeking a talented professional to join its Communications Team, dedicated to bolstering CIF
online presence and maximizing engagement. This Short-term Consultancy role will play a key role in managing CIF’s communication channels.

Responsibilities

The Communications Officer responsibilities include:

Email Marketing: Coordinate and create email campaigns including newsletters, updates, event invites, etc following email marketing best practices. Manage list segmentation, ensuring accurate targeting and personalization, and analyze campaign performance and provide insights to improve engagement and conversion rates.
Website Management: Support management of website content using a Drupal CMS, ensuring timely updates, creating news and event pages, uploading and managing content, checking content accuracy, and monitoring for any issues.
Social media: Support posting, updating and management of social media platforms. Specifically, for YouTube, coordinate and organize content including optimizing video titles, descriptions, tags, and thumbnails to maximize visibility and engagement.
Content development: Support with the development of content as required, including video editing, photo selection for social media assets and development of copy.
Data Analysis and Reporting: Monitor and report digital analytics and provide proposals to adjust based on engagement and reach. This includes the development of dashboard reports.
Paid Media Campaign Management: Plan, execute, and monitor paid campaigns on Google Ads and social media channels. Manage technical setup, including conversion tracking and audience targeting. Regularly report on campaign performance, focusing on ROI and providing actionable
insights for ongoing optimization.
Other duties as assigned. The Communication Consultant (Communications Officer) will be contracted via the CIF Communications Department, with the main point of contact being the Communications Lead or designate.

Selection Criteria:

Bachelor’s degree in digital marketing, business administration, communications, information technology, or related field.
8+ years of proven experience in a similar communications role with experience of website management, digital marketing, and data analytics.
Fully proficient in Google analytics, Adobe Analytics, MailChimp, Canva and social media analytics platforms and tools including Hootesuite, Later, Power BI, Tableau etc.
Proven experience of working with Drupal CMS or similar platforms, including website management. Strong track record in developing and executing SEO strategies, with a focus on driving organic growth.
Excellent understanding of social media, website metrics and digital marketing best practices, with a commitment to staying updated with the latest industry standards.
Strong command of the English language with excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills. Proven ability to work independently with excellent time-management skills and attention to
detail.
Ability to perform effectively under pressure, managing multiple tasks and tight deadlines.
Genuine interest in international development, climate change, and climate finance. Strong diplomatic, interpersonal, and teamwork skills, with sensitivity to working in a diverse, multicultural environment. Alignment with organizational values and a passion for contributing to meaningful global change.