Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Main Duties and Responsibilities
• We have already started developing our advocacy & systems change strategy. This is likely to involve a) raising awareness among key policy-makers and investors of our policy alternative b) generating best practice and encouraging uptake of our ideas/approaches and methodology. You will help refine this strategy and will be responsible for delivering it
• Disseminate our learnings, ideas, approaches and evidence by creating compelling decks, thought-pieces, presentations, blogs, submissions that showcase the programme and our learnings to the relevant audience & key stakeholders
• Strengthen our relationships with senior global ECD stakeholders and represent Lively Minds at conferences, round tables, events, working groups with senior global ECD stakeholders
• Keep abreast of and engage with developments and research in the global ECD space, identifying where we can contribute ideas and learnings, and sharing learnings that may improve our practices
• Support government engagement teams in Ghana and Uganda to develop advocacy positions and objectives when they attend meetings/working groups
• Work closely with our Monitoring & Evaluation team to communicate evidence that we are generating
• Work closely with our Fundraising Team to raise awareness of our brand, the need, our impact and approach
• Build a strong understanding of our operations and ways of working and showcase these externally
• You may be assigned any other responsibility in agreement with your line manager, in contribution to Lively Minds work and in recognition of your experience and skills. It is therefore expected for staff to be flexible and willing to contribute to the work of the wider team.

To succeed in this role, you will be
• You are an entrepreneurial leader. You can work with minimal support and resources, and find creative opportunities to achieve goals and seek out new opportunities
• You are an excellent communicator. Able to create compelling, high quality written material for an academic and policy-maker audience and able to command the attention of senior stakeholders through effective verbal communication
• You are highly analytical. You have a good understanding of global ECD policy and research developments andare identify ways to further our advocacy and system change goals
• You are able to deliver high quality work at pace and recover quickly from set-backs
• You are willing to be hands-on and get on top of details. You will be co linemanaging a communications officer and graphic designer. But will need to be willing to take on all aspects of the role – from strategy, detailed planning, developing product to booking your flights to conferences.
• Be growth-minded and comfortable working in a unique working environment. We have developed innovative approaches to our programme and to our internal systems. We work as a multi-disciplinary team and are non-hierarchical and highly participatory. You will need to be adaptive, agile and open to new ideas, processes and ways of working.

Experience and Skills
Essential Experience and Skills
• Masters degree in ECD or closely related field (eg. Economics, pyschology)
• You have at least 5 years experience of working in ECD sector (ideally pre-primary) either in an academic, policy-making/investor or practitioner setting
• Proven experience of developing strategic communications that have brought about either a change in policy or practice, or have brought in funding
• Familiar with policy, funder and research in ECD and able to digest academic reports and results at speed

Desirable Experience and Skills
• PhD in ECD or related field
• Experience working in sub Saharan Africa
• Familiar with Ashoka system-change tools and methodology
• Ideally have experience working either for a policy team/think-tank/funder/bilateral or multilateral funder
• You will be expected to perform against the Lively Minds Competencies.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure

If this sounds like you, please send your CV and cover letter to jobs@livelyminds.org  by 11:59pm BST on Tuesday 15 th August 2023.
We love a good cover letter and see this as your opportunity to show us your communications skills in action. So please limit your cover letter to 2-pages and please let us know why you'd be perfect for the role and how you meet the behaviours, skills and experience requirements.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Due to resource constraints, we apologise, but we will only respond to shortlisted
candidates.


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