[CLOSED] FHG is Recruiting Community (Parish) Champions for Jamaica's 2023 Nation Brand Project

IMAGINE - Jamaica’s Global Nation(al) Brand By and For Jamaicans!

Findlay House Global is recruiting for Community (Parish) Champions for a World Bank-funded project assignment Development of a Nation Brand Strategy and Brand Identity in Jamaica. The objective is to develop an overall Nation(al) Brand Strategy for Jamaica, that targets a global audience in a way that is inspirational to Jamaican nationals and drives global awareness and commerce for Jamaica.

Findlay House Global is one of six companies that has been shortlisted for this assignment (“Likkle but wi tallawa”). 

This will be a paid position BUT is contingent upon FHG winning the final contract award. 

ROLE SUMMARY

Deadline for applications, cover letters and resumes: 10 October 2022 

Location: Jamaica 

Estimated Assignment Start Date: April 2023

Assignment Type: (temporary, part-time, estimated at 3-5 months)

Level: Experienced (Mid-Level)

Community (Parish) Champions are key Findlay House Global Nation Brand project team members.

​​Community Champions support the implementation of Findlay House Global’s Re-Power Development® approach to community engagement and participation by helping to establish rapport with Jamaicans locally and/or in the diaspora.

A Community Champion works to identify the needs and necessary resources to move engagement forward so that Jamaicans both at home and abroad can contribute their voice to the creation of Jamaica’s national brand strategy.

Our goal as a project team, led by our Jamaican, Founder and Principal Consultant) is to create a Nation(al) brand that is truly designed by and for Jamaicans (“Jamaica for Jamaicans”)!

Community Champions play an important role by helping us to ensure that voices of ‘ordinary’ Jamaicans (“the people,” especially those in rural areas who have been traditionally excluded) are centred and amplified in this Nation(al) brand creation process!

Community Champion(s) will:

• Leverage their existing personal network of Jamaican citizens and Jamaicans within the diaspora (to include schools, churches, businesses

• Ensure that engagement and participation activities are aligned with FHG’s commitment to ethics and excellence

• Organise and facilitate focus groups

• Conduct intercept and one-on-one interviews

• Engage in relationship building and communication

• Upload and enter data

• Complete reports on engagement activities

YOUR EXPERIENCE (QUALIFICATIONS)

• Large network that includes Jamaican nationals and/or Jamaicans living abroad (to include neighbors, school contacts, church contacts, business contacts, etc.)

• Deep connections in/to one or more of Jamaica’s 14 parishes

• 2+ years or more demonstrable experience in coordinating and facilitating meetings, trainings, workshops, etc.

• Experience in interviewing people

• Reliable transportation

• Excellent communications and presentation skills

• Data entry skills

All candidates should demonstrate a willingness to learn and be coached, and have leadership and relationship management experience.

This is a part-time position, contingent upon contract award.

Interested applicants should submit a one-page cover letter and resume by 10 October 2022, using the form below.

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WHAT IS A NATION(AL) BRAND

A Nation(al) Brand is how a country positions and promotes itself as a place in order to build a good reputation. The optimal global reputation includes being recognized as having high quality goods and services and top talent; as well as being an esteemed place for people to do business, invest in, visit, and live.

The process of Nation branding can be summed up as aiming to build, manage, and measure a country’s reputation. A strong nation brand contributes significantly to a country’s development.

ABOUT FINDLAY HOUSE GLOBAL

Findlay House Global (FHG) is a Jamaican woman-owned, small business that provides Development and Communications consulting to governments, international non-governmental organizations (iNGOs) and non-profits, and the private sector.

Powered by our vision of impacted and underserved people leading the discussion on development, FHG collaborates with community members to assist them in providing community solutions. Using our people-centered, Re-Power Development® approach, we mobilize people in targeted communities and countries towards ownership of development processes, thereby increasing the effectiveness and sustainability of development projects, programmes, and services. 

FHG is unapologetically committed to the decolonisation of the field of Development, and actively works towards increasing representation wherever and whenever possible. We see participatory development activities as fundamental and non-negotiable. We are people of integrity and hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards. This culture of holding ourselves accountable extends to the communities and countries in which we live and work. We are committed to the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment and all other ethical breaches.

All applicants to posted positions are subject to stringent vetting and background checks.