Influencing Communications Officer at Mott MacDonald October 2024

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Influencing Communications Officer

Influencing Communications Officer at Mott MacDonald October 2024

Country: Tanzania, United Republic of
Position Location: Dodoma or Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Contract Type: Contract
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: International Development
Discipline: Education
Job type: Full-time
Job Ref: 5151
Recruiter Contact: Suzanne Angus

Job Description
The Influencing Communications Officer will support the implementation of the influencing strategy that is core to the systems strengthening aims of Shule Bora. S/he will work closely with the Impact and Learning lead together with Senior Leadership Team (SLT), regional teams and technical leads to help use communications to influence changes in policy in practice to better support children’s education and implement excellent knowledge management practices for Shule Bora.

The Influencing Communications Officer will:

• Support the development and implementation of Shule Bora’s influencing strategy, including maping and better understanding key stakeholders and sudiences and helping to identify opportunities to use communications to advance Shule Bora’s strategic objectives by influencing changes in policy and practice for better and more inclusive educational opportunities.
• Support the drafting, designing and production of communications documents and publications, working with colleagues and external suppliers where necessary.
• Support the identification and creation of dissemination and engagement opportunities (events and processes) where communication products can be used to influence key stakeholders in line with programme objectives.
• Support the collection and quality assurance of case study stories, digital images and other communications content generated by the team, particularly from the LGAs, in line with influencing priorities and agreed communication products.
• Support the coordination of Shule Bora influencing communications activities with PO-RALG, MOEST (Ministry of Education Science and Technology) and other government agencies where appropriate.
• Support to deliver Shule Bora’s campaigns, behaviour change messages and materials.
• Deliver Shule Bora's visual identity ensuring that presentations and publications are in line with the Client and Company visibility and branding requirements.
• Support the management of information and knowledge products generated across the program and staff through SharePoint, Yammer and other means
• Ensure social media presence is kept up to date and engaging in line with influencing objectives.
• Support media relations where this aligns to the influencing strategy

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Candidate Specification

• Must be a Tanzanian
• Must have degree or equivalent in communications, public relations, marketing or related subject.
• Be able to use MS packages, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint
• Ideally have experience working with Government of Tanzania
• Proactive problem-solver and creative thinker
• Proactive independent worker and also effective team player
• Willingness to learn, grow and be tested in new scenarios
• Good timekeeping and communications skills
• Demonstrate level of creativity to reach and engage in new and culturally appropriate ways, using mixed media, animation, and graphics.
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Project Description
The UK aid funded Shule Bora programme aims to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme’s Impact Statement is: Shule Bora will deliver improved quality, inclusiveness, and safety of learning for boys and girls. There are four outcomes:

• Learning: All children* are learning in school.
• Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.
• Inclusion: All children are in schools that are safe, offer an environment conducive to learning and that enables children to complete primary education and progress to secondary education
• Systems building: UKAID supports government in strengthening the value for money** of education provision at school, local and national level.

The term ‘all children’ infers particular attention to the most disadvantaged: girls, the disabled and those living deprived areas **Value for money is defined as a composite of economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity

The Programme Will

• Work with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) to test, adapt and implement at scale quality, gender-transformative, disability-inclusive, and safe to learn education approaches in 9 regions, generating learning and evidence on how to achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.
• Support Government of Tanzania (GoT) with the timely and effective implementation of the PforR mechanism through technical assistance and capacity building, with a strong focus on data verification, financial management and risk management. Support lesson learning processes from PforR so that these can be embedded into government processes and shared with development partners and other key stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best practics from (1) are used to inform PforR mechanism.
• Manage and coordinate programme activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring a high-quality programme, financial and risk management oversight, (ii) working with an independent Learning and Evidence (L&E) provider on establishing regular, rigorous, and community-driven monitoring and evaluation activities, and (iii) developing and implementing a strategy for effective communication of Shule Bora objectives, results, and lessons learned to a range of target audiences.

We Can Offer (subject To Company’s Policy)

• Agile and safe working environment
• Competitive annual leave and sick leaves
• Group incentive scheme
• Group term life insurance, Workmen’s compensation and Group medical insurance coverage
• Short and Long-term Global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Digital Innovation and Transformation

Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
How to Apply:
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