Communication marketing Offres d'emploi - Varennes, QC

This Volunteer Placement is Located in: Lima, Peru

Start Date: December 2026

Placement Length: 5 months

Language Requirements: Spanish Level 4-Advanced

Please submit a Spanish Resume and Statement of Interest

Eligibility: Open to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada only

The Volunteer’s Role

Use your communications and marketing expertise to help amplify stories of resilience, opportunity, and community-led change in Peru. Through this volunteer placement with Cuso International, you will collaborate with Asociación Kallpa, a Peruvian organization working to expand opportunities for children, youth, women, and vulnerable communities through initiatives focused on health, education, gender equality, employment, entrepreneurship, the environment, and sexual and reproductive rights.

In this role, you will help strengthen Kallpa’s voice across digital platforms, newsletters, campaigns, and partner communications. Your work will support clearer messaging, stronger brand consistency, more engaging content, and improved online visibility so that the organization can reach wider audiences and deepen its impact.

This is an opportunity to apply your creative and strategic skills in a meaningful international cooperation setting. You will work alongside committed local professionals, contribute to practical communications tools, and help share the stories, programs, and results that inspire donors, partners, and communities to take action.

As a volunteer, you will:

• Support the collection, review, and organization of written content and photographs for the institutional newsletter, ensuring materials are clear, compelling, and aligned with editorial and visual guidelines.
• Coordinate newsletter distribution and follow-up communications by email and WhatsApp, in collaboration with the communications team and partner agencies.
• Monitor social media platforms, assess audience engagement, and recommend communications and marketing strategies that increase visibility and strengthen digital presence.
• Identify relevant digital trends, tools, and content approaches that can help Kallpa connect more effectively with its audiences.
• Support the use of a practical digital planning system to help teams across regions coordinate content, deadlines, formats, and approvals more efficiently.
• Standardize procedures and templates for submitting, reviewing, approving, and sharing communications materials across regional teams.
• Contribute to the update of the organization’s Communications Plan and Visual Identity Manual, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities, projects, and thematic areas.
• Use SEO best practices and digital performance insights to help improve content reach, audience engagement, and donor and stakeholder communications

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, or a related field.
• Knowledge of communications planning, digital marketing, audience engagement, and institutional positioning.
• Understanding of themes related to community mental health, gender-based violence prevention, employment and entrepreneurship, the environment, and sexual and reproductive rights.
• Intermediate to advanced Spanish language skills, both written and spoken.

Essential Background:

• Experience designing communications plans, improving brand identity guidelines, or developing digital marketing strategies.
• Ability to create clear, engaging, and audience-focused content for digital channels, newsletters, campaigns, or organizational communications.
• Strong collaboration skills and an interest in working in an intercultural environment with local teams and community partners.

Strong communications can transform awareness into action. By helping Kallpa share its work more effectively, you will support programs that promote inclusion, strengthen community well-being, and expand opportunities for people whose voices and experiences deserve greater visibility.

What’s in it for YOU? A life-changing experience!

About Us

Cuso International (Cuso) is an international cooperation and development organization based in Canada that works to create social and economic opportunities for equity-deserving groups. Building on over sixty years of impactful work, we address global challenges by tackling the root causes of inequality. Working alongside our partners, we are focused on efforts to improve economic resilience, advance equity and inclusion for all, and deliver progress on climate action. We believe that by sharing skills, we can build better futures. Guided by our values of courage, inclusion, sustainability and accountability, Cuso combines innovative strategies and enduring partnerships to create lasting, meaningful change in communities across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.
Project: Sharing Canadian Expertise for Inclusive Development and Gender Equality (SHARE)

Partner: Asociación Kallpa

Volunteer Support and Requirements

Support Package

Cuso International provides a comprehensive support package to ensure volunteers maintain a modest and healthy lifestyle aligned with local standards. This includes:

• Monthly living allowance
• Accommodation
• Health insurance (including required vaccinations and antimalarial medication)
• Round-trip airfare and visa/work permit costs
• Pre-placement, in-country and reintegration training (along with access to self-directed materials and online resources)
• Ongoing local support
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program during and after placement

Selection and Screening

If you are shortlisted, you will need to:

• Confirm passport or permanent resident details for travel
• Provide two professional references and one personal reference
• Complete a language assessment during the initial phone interview
• Pass a police check and medical clearance before departure
• Comply with anti-terrorism checks
• Agree to uphold the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy and Code of Conduct

Residency and Citizenship: Candidates are responsible for confirming how volunteering internationally may affect their citizenship or residency status. Canadian Permanent Residents should verify requirements with Immigration Canada before travel.

Inclusion and Accessibility: Cuso International welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and equity-deserving groups. We provide reasonable accommodations throughout recruitment and placement. If you have accessibility needs, please contact us for support.

Ready to Make a Difference? Apply to volunteer today!