ICMP Communications Officer, Colombia, L6 (part-time) in Bogota

Organization profile

Every year, millions of people around the world go missing as a result of conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration, and other causes. This is a complex global challenge that can be tackled effectively through cross-cutting programs that address a variety of difficult, interconnected issues.

The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is the only international organization tasked exclusively to work on the issue of missing persons. It works with governments and other stakeholders, including families of the missing, to help them develop and maintain successful missing persons processes. To learn more about ICMP click here.

ICMP’s Colombia Program

In the aftermath of half a century of conflict, Colombia faces a legacy of more than 85,000 cases of missing and disappeared persons. The inclusion of this issue in the Final Peace Agreement signed in November 2016, provides an exceptional opportunity to advance efforts to account for missing persons and to secure the rights of victims.

ICMP is mandated under the Peace Agreement to assist this process. It has identified the most important challenges and is supporting the Search Unit, families of the missing, civil society organizations and parties to the Peace Agreement in their efforts to secure long-term peace and reconciliation. ICMP is working closely with its international and Colombian partners to make a positive and practical contribution to this process.

Position Background

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Program, and technical guidance of the Communication Manager in Headquarters, the Communications Officer’s main duties and responsibilities will include the following:

Creating program-specific publications, contributing to the development of innovative public outreach campaigns and supporting events in line with the global ICMP Communications Strategy and work plan;
Contributing to the production of a range of program specific materials, including web articles, social media posts, press releases, media advisories, brochures, and other outreach material;
Contributing to daily media monitoring on missing persons issues in the Spanish-speaking world;
Contributing to general writing, editing, copyediting in both English and Spanish;
Other related duties as assigned.

About ICMP

ICMP works with governments, civil society organizations, justice institutions, international organizations and others throughout the world to address the issue of people who have gone missing as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration and other causes.

As the only international organization that is exclusively tasked to address this issue, ICMP is actively engaged in developing institutions and civil society capacity, promoting legislation, fostering social and political advocacy, and developing and providing technical expertise to locate and identify the missing.

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