Missions
1. Strategy
Planning and implementation of internal and external strategies for communications and outreach
- Assess communication needs and priorities for the mission.
- Refine and adapt HI BGD’s communication and outreach strategy based on HI’s global communication strategy.
2. Expertise
2.1. Develop communication materials in a way that increases understanding of disability, visibility of HI works, and funding opportunities for HI.
- Support project teams in developing project-specific communication, branding, and visibility plans in line with donor and HI requirements.
- Develop and update HI Bangladesh brochures, project briefs, factsheets, impact documents, case stories, human impact stories, good practices, and field updates that increase understanding of disability, HI’s interventions, and funding opportunities.
- Stay updated on donor visibility and communication requirements and support project teams to develop required communication materials, including leaflets, banners, information, education, behavior change communication materials, promotional materials, and visibility products.
- Travel regularly to field locations, with a minimum of 30% field presence, to proactively collect stories, photos, videos, event highlights, and communication content from HI and partner activities.
- Work closely with Technical, MEAL and Operations teams to understand HI projects and interventions; identify field evidence, learning, community voices, and programme results; and use these for communication, donor engagement, and advocacy materials.
- Responsible for the publication of communication materials and documents, including materials for websites, social media, donor visibility, and internal communication platforms.
- Monitor media on issues that interest and affect HI in Bangladesh and communicate relevant information to the team.
- Proactively develop materials for social media platforms, including Facebook, X/Twitter, and other relevant channels, ensuring regular and active visibility of HI Bangladesh’s work.
- Design and develop the layout of HI Bangladesh’s semi-annual and annual reports to be submitted to donors and government.
2.2. Develop and submit communication and information materials to be shared with HI. Headquarter.
- Coordinate with Headquarter to develop new sponsorship letters and quarterly newsletters and other required internal communication materials;
- Work with project teams and HI Headquarters communication team to regularly develop HInside articles, newsletters, case stories, and human impact stories from field activities, key events, donor visits, and partner-led interventions.
- Ensure regular flow of quality content from Bangladesh to HI internal communication platforms, while also proactively collecting content through field visits, event participation, and engagement with project teams.
2.3. Strengthen media engagement in HI actions and effective handling of HI BGD’s social media
- Actively manage HI Bangladesh’s social media platforms, including regular content planning, drafting, posting, monitoring engagement, and ensuring timely visibility of HI activities, donor visits, partner activities, campaigns and key events
- Strengthen media engagement—in the country and at the global level (with support from national associations and headquarters)—to showcase the organization’s achievements
- Capacity building of HI’s local partner’s staff on communication and social media guidelines and story documentations.
- Attend HI and partner events, donor visits, project review meetings, and other key external events to capture highlights (photos, video, minutes…), document key messages, and prepare short visibility products for internal and external dissemination.
- Support partners and project teams to document stories, event highlights and communication materials in line with HI communication, visibility, consent and ethical storytelling guidelines
2.4. Develop communication guidelines and a communication plan
- Review existing communication guidelines and continuously update them in line with HI standards, donor requirements and accessibility standards
- Develop and improve standard templates for internal and external communication, including case story formats, event highlight notes, project review meeting summaries, donor visit briefs, organizational presentations, and external stakeholder presentations.
- Develop an annual communication plan and communication calendar for HI-BGD in collaboration with the project teams
- Induct staff on communication guidelines
- Support project team and logistics to plan productions of HI BGD’s communication and outreach materials and develop a consolidated plan at the organizational level
- Support project teams to use standard communication templates and ensure consistency in branding, messaging, quality, and accessibility of HI Bangladesh communication products.
- Monitor the progress of the implementation of the guideline and plan and take initiatives to ensure guidelines and plans are
3. Influence
3.1. Representation of HI in external communication forums and media
- Participate in communication-related platforms such as Communication Working Group in the country, etc
- Effective management of project’s public events (for example review and reflections, launching, etc.)- share the events with HI’s internal networks like HInside and externally on Twitter and with the donors
- Establish robust media network; coordinate the visits of international media when such events arise and organize media related events when they are required
- Maintain general public relations and act as an information officer for HI BGD.
3.2. Support to foster a learning environment
- Disseminate information and publications that have an impact on learning to the team
- Facilitate to organize Learning and Sharing sessions regularly for Bangladesh to discuss an interesting topic for team members
- Participate in various knowledge dissemination events and share the relevant information with the team
3.3. Support policy advocacy and external positioning
- Contribute to the development of advocacy-related communication materials, including key messages, briefing notes, talking points, evidence summaries, presentations, case stories and donor/sector engagement materials.
- Work with Technical, and Operations teams to identify field evidence, trends, human impact stories, learning and data that can inform advocacy messages for donors, sectors, coordination platforms and other external stakeholders.
- Monitor relevant humanitarian, disability inclusion and Rohingya response updates that may inform HI’s communication, advocacy and external positioning, and share relevant information with the Programme Director / Country Manager and concerned teams.