The posting
At World Animal Protection, effective communication helps connect our people to our purpose, priorities and impact. We are looking for an Internal Communications Officer to create clear, engaging and meaningful communications that inform, inspire and connect colleagues across our global organisation.
Working closely with teams across the organisation, you will help deliver high-quality internal communications that bring organisational strategy, change and impact to life. You will create engaging content, internal communications plans, and help ensure that messages are relevant, inclusive and accessible for diverse audiences across regions and cultures.
This is an exciting opportunity for an internal communications professional who enjoys building relationships, creating compelling content and helping organisations engage and connect with their people.
What you will be doing
- Partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver internal communications that support organisational priorities and objectives; translate organisational strategy, change and transformation and impact into communications that resonate with global audiences.
- Supporting the development and delivery of communications plans for key organisational initiatives and programmes; providing practical communications advice and support to stakeholders across the organisation.
- Creating clear, engaging and high-quality content including producing written and basic video materials.
- Managing the global internal content calendar across a range of internal communications channels.
- Supporting the planning and delivery of global internal events and townhalls.
- Managing and continuously improving internal communications channels; gathering feedback, insight and data to improve communications effectiveness and colleague engagement.
- Championing inclusive, ethical and purpose-led storytelling across internal communications.
What we are looking for
- Experience in internal communications, employee engagement or organisational communications in complex or changing environments.
- Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex information for different audiences creatively.
- Good experience creating graphics and recording and editing videos.
- Experience using content management systems and email/marketing platforms.
- Experience developing and delivering internal employee events or townhalls.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills; strong relationship-building and influencing skills.
- An understanding of global organisations and how to balance local relevance within global frameworks.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Sound judgement and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with colleagues.
Experience working strategically as well as operationally would be advantageous but is not essential.
Why join World Animal Protection?
You will join a global organisation committed to improving the lives of animals worldwide and play an important role in helping colleagues stay connected to our mission, priorities and impact. Working with diverse teams across regions and cultures, you will help shape communications that strengthen engagement, build understanding and support positive organisational change.
Benefits
- Annual Leave - All staff are entitled to 25 days of annual leave per calendar year. In addition, there are 2 Global Wellbeing midyear closure days and 3 additional days to be taken at the end of the calendar year (Christmas festivity), as determined by World Animal Protection. For part-time staff, holiday entitlement is prorated accordingly
- An increase to annual leave through length of service - 1 additional day leave after each years' service up to max 5 days.
- Long service milestone after 10 years and every 5 years thereafter – 1 additional day will be awarded to the employee
- Pension - World Animal Protection Africa has a Pension Scheme, employer contributes 6% and the employee contributes 4%.
- Group Life Cover - All employees are covered under GPA/WIBA cover.
- Medical Insurance Cover – World Animal protection has a medical insurance cover for its employees that covers; Inpatient/outpatient/maternity/Dental/Optical & counselling service.
- Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
- A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:
- Study leave - 4 days
- Maternity leave – 3 months
- Paternity Leave – 2 weeks
- Adoption leave – 26 weeks
- Jury service leave
- Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10days)
- Pregnancy Loss leave – 10 days per year
- Armed forces leave
- Carers/Dependent Leave (3 days)
- Disability Leave (10 days)
- Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
- Fertility Treatment Leave (5 days per cycle, up to max 3 cycles)
- Gender Affirming Medical Leave (20 days)
- Companion animal bereavement Leave (2 days)
- Employees are entitled to 2 days Volunteer Leave (pro-rata) a year to volunteer for a cause that matters to them
- Flexible working options
- We offer a free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme from an independent provider of employee support services. The EAP is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is accessible by telephone, email or online and is available in many languages. The service is there to help with a wide range of work, family and personal issues.
- Where job vacancies occur, we encourage internal applications, we have a good track record of offering existing staff promotions.
