.Communications DivisionGrade: 1Location: LisbonThe International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) is looking to hire a Chief Communications Officer to offer his/her services with overseeing and managing all communications and public affairs activities for KAICIID and with performing other related duties. You will be headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, and work with an engaged and multicultural team of passionate individuals to deliver on our global mandate.AN INTRODUCTION TO KAICIIDThe International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) is a unique International Organization which brings together religious leaders, policymakers, and experts with the aim of finding common solutions to shared problems. Our vision is a world where there is respect, understanding, and cooperation among people, justice, peace and reconciliation, and an end to the abuse of religion to justify oppression, violence, and conflict.KAICIID aims to create a more peaceful world by promoting dialogue and supporting religious leaders and communities in tackling our most pressing problems. We do this through education and training, convening religious leaders and policymakers, and carrying out research to encourage and enhance interreligious and intercultural dialogue. We work with our partners to build their capacities, connections, and confidence.Our work focuses on four pressing and linked issues that challenge humanity: violent conflict; migration; the climate emergency, and social cohesion. We bring together religious leaders with policymakers to find constructive ways to address these issues through dialogue. Our work respects and values the differences between faiths and cultures but promotes the idea that we share a common humanity and a collective need to address these problems. Through all our work run three threads: youth engagement, gender, and policy development.YOUR TEAMThe KAICIID Communications Division promotes the role of dialogue in securing peace around the world, share inspiring stories and to promote the work of the Centre. We promote dialogue through different types of media across our numerous channels such as our social media accounts, newsletter and website. The goal is to win support for the Centre's mandate and a positive reception of the outcomes its work achieves.In coordination with the Programme Division, the Communications Division engages KAICIID's audiences with information that fosters an up-to-date, actionable and relevant understanding of the Centre's mission and work. As such, it is a vital part of advancing strategic communications across the organization, attracting positive attention, strengthening recognition of the Centre's work and raising the profile of the organization
