Communications Coordinator

- Position Title: Communications Coordinator
- Location: Cusco, Peru
- Employment Type: Unpaid Volunteering Position/Full-time
- Leave: 2 days per month
- Application Deadline: Ongoing (we frequently require replacement volunteers, so apply now!)
- Duration: 3-6 months

**Communications Coordinator, Latin American Foundation for the Future (LAFF)**

Communications is an essential part of LAFF’s work as a means of creating long term relationships with supporters. As the Communications Coordinator, you will play a key role in fostering new relationships and maintaining existing ones.

You will focus on informing our communities of relevant news from LAFF, our partners, and Peru. Your independent research skills and innovation will see you collaborate with all of LAFF’s team to collect and present information. You will also work closely with Fundraising to develop campaigns and tailor communications to specific audiences.

LAFF’s mission of supporting access to education through partnership with local organisations means that you will work closely with partners to get updates and new material. LAFF believes in celebrating progress and raising awareness, not exploiting vulnerable personal circumstances in our communications, you will ensure that all visual and written media complies with our Brand Guidelines and does not engage with ‘poverty porn’. Great part of your success in this position will rely on your understanding of the socio-economic problems in Peru that affect LAFF’s beneficiaries and your ability to effectively communicate the importance of LAFF’s work and contextualize progress.

**About LAFF**

The Latin American foundation for the Future (LAFF) is a UK-based charity supporting marginalised children and young people in Peru. We work through local partner organisations in Cusco and support activities and projects in the areas of formal education; vocational skills and personal development; sustainability, including income generation, cost reduction and ca