Position Description – ACA Communications Officer

This is a Position Description for Advocates for Community Alternatives’ Communications Officer.

Established in April 2016, ACA helps West African communities that are threatened by the impacts of extractives-led development to take control of their own futures. We do this by working with communities to design sustainable development plans and to advocate to achieve those plans. We also build networks of lawyers and other experts to help communities’ plans come to fruition.

Role

ACA functions as a laboratory for innovations in community-driven development and legal strategies. We then teach our lessons to partners throughout West Africa, helping them to implement our methods and serve an ever-greater circle of communities. The Communications Officer will support the ACA with all communications needs, including assisting programs staff to develop social media and website content and strategy, maintaining relationships with journalists; placing stories; and otherwise communicating the results and lessons of our work to relevant audiences. He or she is directly under the supervision of the Legal Director.

Specifically, he or she will undertake the following:

Promote and enhance effectiveness of ACA’s work in the media

Manage ACA’s social media accounts by crafting engaging contents for our target audience, grow our social media presence and followers by increasing the media visibility, strengthening digital engagement, producing high-quality communication products,
Keep the organization social medial accounts updated with content that will improve readability, interest, and accessibility.
Assist Program Leads to create training materials and other products that communicate our learnings

Media Relations
Design communication and outreach strategies to engage with the relevant stakeholders and target audience of the legal team, including communities
Build and maintain relationships with journalists in Ghana and internationally to publicize NGO coalition and communities’ positions on the different projects
Advocacy and campaign communication strategies
Develop advocacy strategies for the organization to enhance communications aspects of major projects such as Simandou campaign
Collaborate with other campaigns ACA supports – including the Notre Terre Sans Pétrole Campaign

Supervision

The Legal Communications Officer operates under the direct supervision of the Legal Director.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, or other field related to effectiveness of written and oral communication.
Minimum of three years’ professional experience in a media-facing position.
Demonstrated success in using social media for a social cause
Demonstrable experience in producing good quality documents for different audiences
Fluency in English and French
Excellent writing skills, including for public/external audiences
Willingness and authorization to live in Ghana or other West African base of operations
Willingness and ability to travel widely across up to nine West African countries, including to remote, rural areas lacking electricity and paved roads.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional experience working in less-developed, rural communities
Experience of graphic design and content-related support for ACA Newsletters, reports, and other external communications.
Knowledge in photography, video editing
Basic knowledge in law

Compensation

ACA offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that is at least comparable to that of other non-profits operating in West Africa. Exact salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Application Procedure

Submit to ACA’s Legal Director, Lalla Moulati Touré, at lalla@advocatesforalternatives.org, with the subject header “ACA Communications Officer,” the following:
Cover letter explaining interest and relevant experience
Resume/CV and list of relevant professional publications (not more than 2 pages)
List of at least two professional references

If the application moves to the interview stages, each interview will be by teleconference.

Application Deadline

31 August 2026

Position Description – Community Development M&E Officer

Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), based in Accra, Ghana, is recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to support our community-driven development (CDD) work in West and Central Africa. This is a half-time position located in Accra or Osino (Eastern Region of Ghana) , to be filled as early as
possible. Established in April 2016, ACA helps West African communities that are threatened by the destructive impacts of extractives-led development to take control of their own futures. We do this by working with communities to design their own sustainable development plans and to advocate to achieve those plans. We also build networks of lawyers and other experts to help communities’ plans come to fruition. ACA has CDD projects in communities in Ghana’s Bono East and Eastern Regions, as well as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Our legal program works in nine West African countries and the DRC, often in concert with CDD programming.

Role
ACA functions as a laboratory for innovations in community-driven development and legal strategies. We then teach our lessons to partners throughout West Africa, helping them to implement our methods and serve an ever-greater circle of communities.
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As a member of ACA’s CDD team, the CDD M&E Officer will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data and supporting project staff to ensure quality data for strategic decision-making on ACA’s CDD projects outside of Ghana. He/she will work directly under the supervision of the CDD M&E Coordinator.

Under the supervision of the CDD M&E Coordinator, he/she will:

• Assist ACA’s CDD partners outside of Ghana to design, implement, review, and revise M&E frameworks for their ACA-supported CDD projects. This includes the development of logical measurement frameworks, monitoring systems, and evaluation strategies, including community participatory monitoring and feedback mechanisms.
• Support facilitators and other partner staff in the collection of project monitoring and continuous learning data from CDD communities from ACA’s projects outside Ghana (currently, in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, but likely to include the D.R. Congo in the near future), providing technical support to the project team on issues encountered in the field or raised by the monitoring system.
•  Centralize data collected by CDD partner project implementers outside Ghana, process it, and analyze it in relation to the project’s key success indicators, to stimulate discussions on the effectiveness and efficiency of the project.
• Conduct periodic monitoring and spot-check field visits with program staff to track the progress of community-based projects and ensure that the data collected is of the right quality.
•  Conduct periodic audits of partners’ implementation data to verify accuracy and fidelity to data collection protocols and agreements.
• Analyze monitoring, evaluation, and research data and participate in discussions to present findings to partner organizations to stimulate discussions on project efficiency and effectiveness with partners.
• Contribute to the preparation of periodic reports to ACA regarding the progress of ACA partners’ CDD projects outside Ghana.
• Work with the partners and the CDD M&E Coordinator to document lessons learned and community successes on a quarterly basis regarding CDD and any ongoing pilots.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, quantitative discipline, economics, or other related field
• Minimum three years’ work experience in program/project monitoring and evaluation research or data management and analysis position.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and refining data collection tools
•  Experience in designing M&E frameworks for development projects
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection using mobile technology
• Demonstrated passion for community-led development projects/programs
• Experience in data quality assessments and oversight
• Ability to produce high-quality documents for different audiences
• Fluency in English and French
• Excellent writing skills, including for public/external audiences
• Willingness and authorization to live in Ghana
• Willingness and ability to travel widely across up to ten West and Central African countries, including to remote, rural areas lacking electricity and paved roads

Compensation

For this part-time position, ACA offers a competitive starting compensation and benefits package, subject to negotiation based on relevant experience and skills.

Application Procedure

Submit to ACA’s CDD Director, Nana Ama Nketia Quaidoo, at nana.ama@advocatesforalternatives.org,
with the subject header “ACA CDD M&E Officer” the following:

• Cover letter explaining interest and relevant experience
• Resume/CV and list of relevant professional publications
• List of three professional references

If the application moves to the interview stages, each interview will be by teleconference.

Application Deadline
14 October 2025