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Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. It is a dual mandate organization and focuses on development and emergency response. We are currently working in 120 countries around the world touching the lives of 125 million children. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children offers attractive salary including non-salary benefits which consists of paid medical benefits, various leave benefits, accident insurance, severance and other allowances.

We are currently inviting motivated and talented individuals to apply for Communications, Learning & Reporting Specialist (Consultancy) position based in Myanmar, Thailand or Home-Based within the Asia Region. Please see the following detailed information.

SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

ROLE PROFILE:

TITLE:  Communications, Learning & Reporting Specialist (Consultancy)

TEAM/PROGRAMME:   Education Consortium

LOCATION:  Myanmar, Thailand or Home-Based within the Asia Region

CONTRACT LENGTH: One- Year Contract (Full-time Consultancy, Renewable)  

ROLE PURPOSE:

As a multi-donor funded programme, the consortium partners with selected ethnic and monastic education providers to strengthen their capacity to deliver and sustain good quality learning opportunities for children considered to be hard-to-reach in Myanmar. Applying a ‘systems-strengthening’ approach, the programme provides funding, coordination, technical assistance and research across different complementary education systems to promote continuous improvement of education services. The programme works with its partners, established education providers, to place an emphasis on developing the quality and inclusivity of education in Myanmar, including improved learning outcomes; and with a broader range of diverse stakeholders to address key barriers for the achievement of equitable education. In line with its current 2021-25 programme strategy, the overall aim for the programme is that hard-to-reach children access education services that meet their learning and well-being needs.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Director of Strategy, Policy and Learning (SPL)

Staff reporting to this post: None

The post holder will play a significant role in ensuring a strong learning culture is embedded in our programme and that learning is institutionalized and harvested for progress reporting and strategic communications in support of priority areas of focus in education. S/he will build upon current systems to strengthen evidence generation further and collaborate with all teams to ensure that evidence and learning are documented, disseminated, and utilised for strategic and operational implementation, planning and reporting. S/he will play a key role in communicating our work, its successes and impact, through the development of reports and implementation of a strategic communications workstream that produces ready-to-use communications products. S/he will provide training, coaching and mentorship in line with team requirements.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Learning and Knowledge Management

• Ensure a strong learning culture is built through the design and implementation of a Learning and Knowledge Management strategy that sets out priorities, approaches and actionable workplans.
• Set up ways of working, including instituting tools and templates to help the healthy functioning of a learning and knowledge management mechanism.
• Provide a learning and knowledge management lens in reviewing and strengthening quarterly/annual plans and ensure lessons from implementation data are identified, documented, shared and utilised.
• Ensure comprehensive analysis of evidence products (e.g., project evaluation and research findings, activity and program reports) and develop summaries of findings, learning and recommendations for program staff, co-ordinate high-quality briefings for associated stakeholders etc.
• Develop and implement calendars of learning events, including internal and external Reflection, Learning and Planning events, Review and Reflection exercises etc.

Strategic Communications

• Strengthen evidence-based decision making across the programme through the promotion of robust use of evidence and research as part of the implementation of a strategic communications workstream.
• In collaboration with the communications team, the Strategy, Research and Learning Unit (SRLU) and respective partners, develop and implement a strategy for the dissemination of research findings and evidence.
• Develop a repository of high-quality communications and learning products that are responsive to the priorities and interests of specific audiences across the stakeholder base. These will be a set of user-friendly and appealing products (case-studies, one-pagers, success stories, fact sheets, policy position papers, short publications, conference presentations etc), designed in a manner that complements learning approaches, key areas of priority and advocacy and influencing work.

Reporting & Planning

• Lead the production of regular annual and semi-annual reports, including writing context and progress narrative sections based on information shared by internal and external stakeholders throughout the year and harvested across teams at key junctures to ensure high-quality reports are delivered that document the programme’s implementation progress and achievements.
• Support the production of a high-quality Annual Operating Plan narrative, and ensuring strategic learning feeds in, in a coherent, strategic and innovative manner throughout.

Technical Support, Training & Mentorship

• Provide technical training on strategic communications for respective staff, as required.
• Provide technical support to partner staff for systems strengthening, as requested.

Cross-Cutting Responsibilities

• Contribute to specific and contextual guidance to ensure that the safeguarding of children is incorporated into our strategies and children are protected from exploitation, increased vulnerability, or any form of harm or indignity;
• Ensure that Communications and Learning activities take Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion into consideration in line with the programme’s GEDSI Strategy & Guidelines, and aim to strengthen internal as well as partners’ capacity to generate and use GEDSI-related data and evidence for learning
• Ensure that the programme’s Partnership Principles and Management Guidelines are maintained and supported.

General

• Promote and support a strong collaborative team culture;
• Additional responsibilities as assigned and agreed with the SPL Director.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
• Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in an area such as International Development Studies, Education, Communications or Media, International Relations or another relevant field or equivalent qualifications through work experience.
• More than 5 years’ experience in a relevant technical role (education, communications and media, research and learning, MEAL, advocacy) with demonstrated successes
• Excellent proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Experience in education programming with a sound understanding of issues in education in development, across conflict- or crisis-affected contexts
• Experience in knowledge management and organisational learning in order to help drive improvements in evidence understanding and uptake
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills to motivate influence and negotiate both internally and externally with the ability to produce and disseminate outputs for a variety of audiences
• Strong analytical skills and experience in influencing roles using policy, advocacy, communications, and mobilisation tools.
• Experience of building, leading and developing colleagues and staff. Cultural sensitivity, with highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent training, facilitation, and team building skills. Innovative and creative approach to problem solving.
• Experience in writing policy papers, research or evaluation reports
• Strong remote-working abilities.

DESIRABLE

• Experience promoting evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Experience in leading the creation and implementation of a strategy, demonstrating the ability to identify the necessary steps towards an ambitious goal.
• Experience working with research and evidence relevant to an education focused agenda
• Demonstrated commitment to driving an enabling environment for gender equality, disability and inclusion
• Experience working with major donors/ development partners in communications or education roles
• Experience working in Myanmar
• Ability to speak Myanmar language and/or another ethnic Myanmar language

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.
• Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
• Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.
• Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
• Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring

• Their staff are doing the above.
• That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

                                            Human Resources Department | Save the Children International|

                                                Email: recruitment.asiasubregionaloffice@savethechildren.org

Not later than 5 P.M., 25 December 2023 (Monday)

Candidates are also requested to mention in the applications if there is, blood/marriage relationships with the existing Save the Children employees.  No requirement of photo or copy of certificates and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Remark: For those who failed to mention or incorrectly mention the apply position title, Programme/Sector name and location in their applications, we will consider those as disqualify and we will not consider for short list.