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Regional Content Manager ( National Position) at Mercy Corps
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 4 days ago (1 Sep 2026) Updated 3 days ago
Job Description
The Regional Content Manager leads Mercy Corps’ storytelling across Africa, creating compelling multimedia content that supports fundraising, communications and brand awareness. Working with country teams and global leadership, the manager captures high‑quality photos, videos and written stories that reflect community experiences. The role also builds a pipeline of timely narratives and ensures content is ethically sourced and ready for earned, paid and owned channels. Collaboration with senior communications staff shapes the regional content strategy.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Media Production or a related field
- • 6–8 years of professional experience in communications, journalism, photography, videography or multimedia storytelling
- • Strong interviewing, writing, editing and storytelling abilities
- • Proven ability to work in complex international environments with multicultural teams
- • Experience managing external vendors and creative partners
- • Familiarity with social media audience engagement and digital asset management systems
- • Proficiency with basic multimedia editing and Adobe Creative Cloud tools is an advantage
- • Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- • Willingness to travel throughout the region, including remote locations
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Identify, capture and produce high‑quality stories, photography, video and digital‑first content across the region
- • Align content with media engagement, fundraising and brand awareness objectives
- • Build and manage a steady pipeline of timely, impactful narratives
- • Coordinate with country teams, regional leadership and global communications to plan content strategy
- • Ensure ethical gathering and proper archiving of multimedia assets for use across channels