Communication Specialist- Impact Storytelling

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Job Purpose:

The Specialist – Impact Storytelling is responsible for leading the development of high-quality, impact-driven stories, case studies, and donor-focused narratives that reflect World Vision Bangladesh’s transformational work on the ground. This role supports storytelling efforts that align with fundraising needs, global and regional partnership requests, and technical and advocacy priorities. The Specialist collaborates closely with field teams, sector specialists, and partnership offices to collect, refine, and package human-centred stories that reinforce brand credibility, demonstrate programme impact, and build donor trust.

Key Objectives of the Position

• Craft compelling narratives that showcase the impact of World Vision Bangladesh’s work through human-interest stories, testimonies, and multimedia packages.
• Align storytelling outputs with donor reporting requirements, child sponsorship guidelines, and advocacy campaigns.
• Collaborate with technical leads and field communications teams to gather rich content (stories, quotations, case studies, and photographs) that resonates with local and global audiences.
• Maintain a repository of approved stories for cross-platform dissemination (website, social media, donor reports, and presentations).
• Ensure that all stories adhere to World Vision’s safeguarding, branding, and child protection standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Storytelling & Narrative Development

• Identify, develop and produce compelling, evidence-based human-interest stories, impact features and multimedia content that demonstrate programme outcomes, child well-being and community transformation.

• Translate programme achievements, data and field experiences into engaging narratives for internal and external audiences, highlighting the voices, dignity and lived experiences of children, families and communities.

Donor Communication Support

• Develop tailored storytelling and multimedia packages to demonstrate programme impact and support donor engagement, sponsorship and resource mobilisation.

• Coordinate with programme and resource development teams to address donor-specific storytelling requirements and communication requests.

• Ensure the timely delivery of quality content for donor reports, proposals, campaigns, presentations and regional/global platforms.

Content Collaboration & Field Coordination

• Coordinate with programme teams, field offices and technical specialists to facilitate story-gathering missions and field-level content documentation.

• Provide technical guidance and capacity-building support to WVB staff and partners on interviewing, storytelling, photography, videography and ethical content collection.

• Facilitate collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to ensure diverse and authentic representation of programme impact.

Content Repository & Knowledge Management

• Administer and monitor StoryHub/Kissflow assignments, ensuring timely allocation, tracking, follow-up and submission.

• Maintain and regularly update the storytelling repository with properly documented, categorised and searchable content assets.

• Track content utilisation and share good practices, impactful stories and communication resources across organisational platforms.

Safeguarding & Brand Alignment

• Ensure all storytelling and communication products comply with World Vision's safeguarding, child protection, informed consent, ethical storytelling and data protection standards.

• Ensure consistency with World Vision's brand guidelines, communication standards and organisational values across all published content.

End Results:

• At least two high-quality human-interest stories produced monthly. 
• Stories featured in donor reports, sponsorship communications and advocacy materials.
• Timely delivery of written and visual content for grant reports and global requests.
• Positive feedback from support offices and donors on the quality of narratives.
• Effective collaboration with field teams and technical leads.
• Regular story-gathering missions conducted, or remote documentation support provided.
• Story bank regularly organised and updated with metadata for ease of access and use.
• Tracking of story utilisation across internal and external platforms.
• Compliance with branding and safeguarding protocols ensured for all published stories.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience:

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification:

• Bachelor's degree from a recognised university in Journalism, Media, English, Communications, or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.

Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' experience in storytelling within the development sector, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), or the media.
• Strong photography and video documentation skills, including content capture, editing and production.
• Strong interpersonal, networking and organisational skills.
• Good presentation and communication skills.
• Proficiency in photography and videography.

Required Language(s) :

Excellent English writing skills, with the ability to develop compelling stories, news reports and press releases to support fundraising and strengthen advocacy efforts.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations:

Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to Area Programmes (APs) and projects.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits: Provident fund, Gratuity, Festival Bonus: 1, Weekly 2 holidays, other benefits as per organizations policy.

Workplace: Office- based, with travel as required.

Location: National office, Dhaka.

Employment Status: Full Time.

World Vision is committed to first do no harm to children or adult beneficiaries, to respect the rights of all beneficiaries, and to uphold the best interests of children as a primary consideration in all actions and decisions: accordingly, all the recruits will go through specific checks and compliance procedures in accordance to its Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.

World Vision Bangladesh has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. World Vision Bangladesh as Child Safe Organization discourages anyone to apply with prior record of conviction related with child neglect, abuse and exploitation.

Women & Persons with Disability are highly encouraged to apply

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only