Chargé-e de Communication

Organisation overview

Tostan is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Dakar, Senegal, currently operating in five West African countries. At the strategic level, the organization is committed to continuing to develop its core competency of empowering education, and to document and scale the sustainable impact it creates on a range of issues. Tostan's flagship model, the three-year Community Empowerment Programme (CEP), has already reached thousands of communities in West and East Africa since 1991. Results in governance, education, health, economic empowerment, and the environment are currently being monitored, and Tostan is particularly proud to have played an important role in the large-scale empowerment of women and girls and in community abandonment of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage.

As part of its strategic engagement plan 2023–2030, Tostan focuses on strategic scaling. The organization is developing new implementation strategies to support community leadership by unlocking broader systemic changes at the regional level. It also creates new models for sharing and replicating its programs with other development partners and expands its capacity to share Tostan's global approach to support and influence a range of local and global audiences. For more information, please visit: .

Role overview

The Communications team shapes Tostan’s narrative, advocacy, brand identity and donor visibility at community, national, regional and global levels. Tostan is part of a four-year regional programme on young women’s economic leadership in climate-resilient horticulture in Senegal and The Gambia. Within it, Tostan leads the community governance and social transformation component in partner communities across both countries.

The Communication Officer will show how changes in community governance and social norms open economic pathways for young women. The officer will turn field evidence into stories, public narratives and policy arguments, and will bring young women’s experience into the spaces where decisions on investment, finance and markets are made. Young women and community actors are the authors of this change. The officer’s job is to document it accurately and amplify their voices, never to speak in their place.

Roles and

The Communication Officer reports to the Head of Communications and works in close operational coordination with the Senior Programme Manager.

Programmatic Communication (35%)

● Plan and conduct regular field missions to partner communities to document change through interviews, written stories, photography and short video, working with young women, community leaders, local authorities and producer groups.

● Work with the MEL and programme teams to turn monitoring data and evaluation findings into impact stories and case studies that show how community governance and norm change translate into economic opportunity.

● Contribute to the production of documentary films at country and regional levels, from story research and field coordination to review of edits.

● Produce local-language safeguarding communication materials in coordination with the Safeguarding Focal Points.

● Support the selection, training and mentoring of young women community storytellers, and edit their stories for publication.

● Maintain a well-catalogued multimedia library with documented consent for every image, recording and quote. ● Co-draft the communication sections of donor narrative reports with the MEL and programme leads.

Digital Communications 20%

● Produce regular content for Tostan’s and partners’ social media channels, newsletters and websites in French and English

● Feed and update the programme’s shared online knowledge platform and impact dashboard with stories, data and multimedia, in coordination with partner web teams.

● Run digital campaigns around programme milestones and international days related to women’s economic righ...