Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist Job Placement – Mott MacDonald
Job Title: Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist
Organisation: Mott MacDonald
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Mott MacDonald:
Mott MacDonald is a leading, employee-owned global management, engineering and development consultancy with £1 billion revenue and more than 14,000 staff working in 140 countries for both the public and private sectors. Our International Development Services Unit, IDS, operates portfolios within the international development sectors of Environment, Climate, Water, Roads, Rural & Urban Development, Education, Health, Social and Economic Development in over 40 countries. Together we implement and manage projects in developing countries and emerging economies around the world, supporting national governments and municipalities in policy, planning, project design and delivery. We are committed to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to provide our expertise to improve the lives of people in need.
About SESIL Programme:
SESIL (Strengthening Education Systems for Improved Learning), is a four-year education programme designed to improve the quality and equity of measurable learning outcomes at lower primary level in Uganda. SESIL will do this by strengthening the systems needed to manage and raise the performance of four key drivers of learning outcomes: teachers, schools, districts, and assessment and examinations.
Job Summary: The Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist will be required to do the following:
- Provide communication and knowledge-management support to SESIL, and the Ministry of Education and Sport (MoES), to encourage and enable key stakeholders – especially districts, communities and parents – to work together to improve learning outcomes, using an evidence-based ‘managing for results’ approach. And to provide platforms for sharing data and lessons learned between districts, the MoES and SESIL team members.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a national campaign
- Generate mainstream media coverage
- Manage ongoing social media promotions and discussions
- Develop tools and provide support for districts to communicate priorities, plans and results more effectively both to communities, including parents, and among themselves
- Share knowledge and lessons learned among the team and key stakeholders by developing and regularly updating appropriate knowledge-sharing platforms (e.g. e-news updates)
- Liaise with relevant programmes to ensure synergies and complementarity
Key Performance Indicators:
- Improved public perception of education (and the MoES’ role in it) as an economically and socially worthwhile investment for their children’s and Uganda’s future;
- Public citations of data generated by SESIL (e.g. in media);
- Numbers and degree of engagement with digital platforms (e.g. website, social media, WhatsApp groups)
- Key stakeholders’ use of, and satisfaction with, information and knowledge-sharing tools that will be required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The jobholder should have significant marketing and communication experience, preferably in both the public and private sector, with demonstrable results achieved;
- Experience of managing multi-media campaigns
- A strong understanding of the issues facing Uganda’s education sector
- Experience of working at different levels of the education system at both a central level (MoES) and District (Local Government)
- Experience and contacts with traditional press and broadcast media
- Proven ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
- Understanding of the different needs, communication channels and incentives for change among government (MoES), education professionals and communities/parents.
- Expertise in communicating data and other information concisely both visually (e.g. infographics) and in writing in a way that engages the interest and support of different audiences, including via radio;
- Strong social media skills, particularly in WhatsApp and other popular channels in Uganda, as well as the mainstream media;
- Graphic design skills, using tools such as InDesign and PhotoShop.
- Fast producer of materials, with an attention to detail, the ability to hit deadlines and to identify and seize opportunities as they arise
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are invited to apply direct via the careers website of Mott MacDonald at the web lick below. Please create an account and submit a curriculum vitae and application letter.
Deadline: 9th August 2018
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