Vacancies at VVOB Education for Development

You will:

• Create and manage partnerships and strong networks with relevant partners, institutions and organisations.
• Support the policy processes needed for institutionalising and scaling the programmes of VVOB, together with our partners and other stakeholders. You aim for evidence-based policy outcomes, guided by the research agenda of VVOB in Kenya and globally.
• Provide both short and long-term strategic advice, information, and guidance to VVOB and VVOB’s partners on education, in line with Kenyan policy trends, new developments and the latest research and thinking in education and international development.
• Design and develop relevant and scalable projects in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process according to the needs, particular situations, and phases of the programme.
• Contribute to internal and external knowledge development and learning, by systemising lessons learnt and sharing proactively lessons learnt between partners, colleagues and other VVOB country teams.

If you’re our Strategic Education Advisor, your workweek at the office will include the following highlights:

• Together with your colleague M&E and Research Advisor, you have a meeting with the research department of the Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI), who are involved in the research agenda of the programme, to discuss the results of the data collection of school leaders who followed the training programme in cohort 2.
• You share the draft version of the skilling for sustainable future situational analysis that you’ve been working on with the Global Strategic Education Advisor at head office for her inputs.
• You give a presentation at the Ministry of Education about the impact of the training programme and advice on further upscaling of the blended training in a cost-effective way.
• You log in to an online meeting with your colleagues from the African Center for School Leadership and partners to organise the upcoming school leadership taskforce meeting.
• You have a meeting with the Country Programmes Manager to finalise thepresentation that you will give during a coming meeting with a potential donor.

Your expertise and experience

• Master’s degree in education, human sciences, or another relevant field or equivalent.
• Indepth understanding of and connections with the Kenyan education system and the Kenyan education sector.
• Experience in education project management.
• Experience with research cooperation and evidence-based policy making, or/and scaling education programmes.
• Experience in organisational and institutional capacity development.

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You will:

• Develop and implement VVOB in Kenya Communication Strategy, aligned to the Global Communication Strategy.
• Lead in the development of regular social media communication outputs (including articles, blogs, press releases, social media posts, etc). In collaboration with colleagues, you proactively and continuously update VVOB in Kenya’s presence on social media, assess media environment and trends, and advise on opportunities that are available for increased exposure/ publicity.
• Support in the development of professional communication and communication materials including visual tools such as info-graphs, pictures, videos, pedagogical graphics for the programme, fact sheets, briefing documents, positioning statements, communication plans, corporate messaging, executive speeches/presentations as and when needed.
• Provide coordination, technical support and advice to the VVOB colleagues and partners on matters communication, including capacity development of colleagues and partners.
• Keep abreast with the latest communication trends, policy development and relevant discussions in the international education and development community and respond accordingly.
• Manage and follow up on the communications and conferences planning calendar.

Your expertise and experience

• Master’s degree in communication, journalism, or other relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in developing internal and external communication and with the use of different media channels to do so (magazines, social media, …).
• Expert understanding of digital, social and other media and how to maximise impact and visibility for the organisation in the Kenyan context.
• Strong interest in international cooperation, institutions and donors.
• Excellent computer skills in MS office and other relevant tools & technologies (digital media, graphic design tools such as Photoshop and other graphic design software).
• Excellent command of the English language.