Marketing and Communications Senior Specialist (MCSS)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Role
The World YWCA seeks a visionary, feminist, and solutions-driven Marketing and Communications Senior Specialist (MCSS) to lead and strengthen our global communications and engagement strategy, amplify the voices of women and young women worldwide, and enhance the visibility and impact of the World YWCA movement. This role is essential to implementing the World YWCA Strategic Framework 2024–2027, ensuring our advocacy, engagement, and initiatives are communicated powerfully, inclusively, and aligned with YWCA values and feminist principles.
The MCSS will lead efforts to position the World YWCA Secretariat and the global YWCA movement as a powerful voice for change by enhancing external visibility, elevating advocacy efforts, and strengthening internal communications. This role combines strategic planning, creative storytelling, social media management, and team capacity building to support the organisation’s work toward Goal 2035, mobilising 100 million young women and girls to transform power structures and end gender inequality.
The MCSS will work remotely, report to the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, and collaborate with other World YWCA team members, contractors, consultants, and external partners. The MCSS will support the implementation of key communications priorities outlined in the Strategic Framework 2024–2027, which was adopted at the World Council in 2023. The MCSS will also manage relationships with external consultants and service providers to achieve specific deliverables across campaigns and initiatives.
The mandate holder must excel at managing multiple projects, coordinating with diverse stakeholders, and using innovative tools and strategies to deliver impactful results. The MCSS must also embrace World YWCA’s core values of equity, inclusion, and respect for intersectional diversity.
Work Environment:
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global,
Engagement Terms
Location: Remote (with limited travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding) – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 5500–6500 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location) cross-cultural team setting.
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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