Job Opportunities at Sightsavers

Responsibilities

Delivering the NTD communications strategy:

• Working with the Communications Strategist, and consulting the NTD senior management team, regularly revise the NTD communications strategy based on defined audiences and objectives.
• Leading on engaging with internal and external stakeholders relevant to the NTD thematic strategy. Meeting with stakeholders regularly to monitor communication activity plans and capture changes in objectives and outputs in the communications strategy.
• Working with the Communications Strategist and the Head of Communications, contribute to the updating of Sightsavers’ mapping of NTD audiences and NTD stakeholders.
• Collaborating with the Communications Strategist plan the day-to-day budget for NTD communications and assign budget to communication projects and activities, securing stakeholder agreement and sign off from the Head of Communications, when necessary.

Manage NTD external stakeholders and/ or consortium partners to deliver and align on communication activities:

• Consult and collaborate with NTD external stakeholders and relevant consortium partners across the different programmes, to design and implement communications activities.
• Coordinate the NTD external stakeholders and relevant consortium partners to collectively deliver the communications activities. Identify the communications capacities and aspirations of partners and determine priorities and roles and responsibilities with partners in the delivery of the communications activities

Supporting the development of creative communications content and communication products

• Working with the Content and Stories team, brainstorm creative concepts based on the NTD communications plan and/or communication briefs received.
• Contribute to the development of NTD creative communications content, working closely with the Content and Stories team and internal/external content creation and production resources.
• Provide communications expertise and guidance to the NTD programme team about the development of communication products following the creative briefing process with the Content and Stories team.
• Support the Content and Stories team as needed in drafting copy for online and offline editorial content, including news stories, blogs, case studies and webpages.
• Be the focal point and liaison between the Content and Stories team and NTD stakeholders on creative concepts that deliver communication objectives to secure agreement and sign off.

Organisational leadership

• Provide direct line management for the communications officer.
• Working with the Communications Strategist, align with other Communications Managers to ensure messaging and activities are complimentary across all thematic areas
• Provide support to the Communications Strategist and Head of Communications on organisational planning processes, including budgeting.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive knowledge and experience of delivering global communications strategies, plans and activities.   
• Demonstrable experience of working with programme teams to design communication plans that reach key target audiences.   
• Proven awareness of global development issues.  
• Demonstrable experience of effective use of various communications channels in a global environment.   
• Project management experience and a track record of results in working with a range of organisations and stakeholders.   
• Related work experience should demonstrate a proven and strong commitment to the area of international development, the humanitarian sector, social justice, campaigning and/or relevant field.  
• Spoken French an advantage. 

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About the role

We are looking for a Global Technical Lead – Inclusive Education to provide technical leadership and expertise in inclusive education to guide the development and delivery of specific initiatives and programmes. Principal accountabilities will include:

• Strengthening the global programme portfolio in inclusive education through leading strategic and technical inputs in proposal development
• Pioneering new strategic initiatives and innovative approaches in inclusive education to improve and enhance the quality of Sightsavers’ work
• Contributing to the research, innovation, policy, advocacy and communications agendas through close collaboration with interdepartmental teams and key external stakeholders
• Undertaking senior level representation of Sightsavers as an expert in inclusive education at national, regional and international professional and sector-specific networks, platforms, conferences and meetings.

Skills and Experience

This is an ideal opportunity to build on your existing expertise in leading and developing programmes in inclusive education in lower income countries. We are looking for a skilled educator with the ability to build strong working relationships across different departments and work collaboratively as a member of our cross-functional teams as well as working effectively with our external partners and other INGOs.  To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A professional qualification in the field of education and (disability) inclusion,
• A postgraduate qualification (minimum Master’s or equivalent experience) in a relevant field, e.g. education, special needs education; disability, international development
• A proven track record of leading and developing programmes in inclusive education in lower income countries
• Experience of working with national governments and international institutions such as Global Partnership for Education, UN agencies, bilateral agencies as well as non-state actors to contribute to education system transformation.
• Knowledge of current developments, issues and best practice in inclusive education to effectively address the current learning crisis.
• Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

Benefits

• Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits and a supportive, inclusive work environment.
• Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance and country-specific benefits.
• There is a lot of flexibility with regards to the location of this role. It may be possible to consider a third-party employment arrangement for this position.
• Candidates based in Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana plus locations in ECSA could be based at Sightsavers offices.