Community Engagement Lead “Weaver” Position

Similar to a desert before a rainstorm, we believe that developing countries are full of potential waiting for the right conditions to unleash a superbloom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbloom) of creativity and positive impact. At Bloom, our work weaves together elements of entrepreneurship development, impact innovation and social entrepreneurship around local and global challenges and the SDGs. We believe in transformative educational experiences supporting personal growth and the pursuit of meaning, soft / universal skills (“entrepreneurial skills”) development, and in the process build rich collaborations and communities of practice across geographic boundaries.

Our hope is that through these efforts we can contribute to the development of positive, inclusive, and sustainable communities and economies, and to a superbloom, indeed superblooms, of opportunity around the world.

We think that community engagement and communications is a critically important part of our work, and though it’s not everything, it’s close.

We’re looking for someone who loves the creative side of community engagement and communications (writing posts and press releases, creating compelling multi-media content, dreaming up creative campaigns that inspire people and invite engagement), along with the event organizer side helping create and facilitate great and impactful events, mostly dynamic, fun, engaging online events, along with the disciplined data-driven side of communications and engagement, working with the UX (user experience) and M&E (monitoring & evaluation) Lead to assess, understand, and improve our approaches to community engagement.

For the Creative Side:

1. A love of writing, especially compelling creative writing for short posts, long posts, and story-telling (a love of poetry is a plus!);
2. Overseeing production of multimedia content, and working with video producers and designers to realize great creative productions;
3. Basic comfort using design tools, to adjust and implement design templates created by our design team;
4. Fluency in creating content in English and Arabic, and French a big plus.

For the Event Organizer Side:

1. Experience designing and implementing meticulous detailed-oriented events, including both offline and online events;
2. Comfort using and facilitating events with online event platforms;
3. Enthusiasm about working with a broad ecosystem of partners, and designing collaborative events that delight our partners as much as the attendees;
4. Experience in tech, startup, and social innovation events a plus.

For the Disciplined Data-Driven Side:

1. Posting content on social media platforms, and comfort with running multiple tests of content to continually learn and optimize content and approaches;
2. Demonstrated experience with segmenting users and content testing;
3. Experience using monitoring and analytics tools for creating detailed communications impact reports.

• Part-time ok to start (minimum 3-4 days/week availability), with preference towards full-time availability in the near future
• Remote work / partial remote work is ok (some presence in Lebanon is a plus, but not required)
• Initial contract is as a “consultant/contractor”, with potential for shifting to a full-time position in the future
• Benefits (health care, pension, vacation accrual, etc) are available once people shift to full-time positions

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY

Please go to https://www.bloom.pm/jointheteam-community-engagement/ and fill out the form if you're interested in the job.