Communications Coordinator at Educate!

Job description

Educate! is looking for a collaborative and detail-oriented team player with sharp communications skills to join our high growth non-profit social enterprise at a pivotal moment. As East Africa Communications Coordinator, you will pioneer this new role, serving as an indispensable player in executing Educate!’s government and stakeholder engagement strategies in Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. You will use your excellent writing skills to engage key audiences and your collaborative work style to manage priorities across country teams. This role serves to directly elevate Educate!’s in-country visibility so that we can work towards integrating our model into national education systems, enabling us to achieve our Vision for 2024 of reaching four million students across Africa each year.

As the East Africa Communications Coordinator, you will support the Communications Associate by executing Educate!’s communication strategies, collaborating on marketing and event promotion, ensuring brand and messaging consistency across three countries, and supporting with relationship management. This position is great for an ambitious individual excited to learn communications best practices and to build a meaningful career in the nonprofit sector by learning the ins and outs of a first-class organization like Educate!. The role is part of our passionate, overachieving External Relations team based in the United States and Uganda and works closely with our National Programs team in Uganda and Rwanda. The position may be based in Nairobi, Kampala, or Kigali, with a preference for Nairobi.

Performance Objectives

• Execute East Africa Communications Strategies (40%)
• Produce content strategically tied to Educate!’s key messages that will keep our East African stakeholders informed and engaged,
• Measure and monitor audience engagement and make recommendations to optimize impact
• Work across departments to gather compelling stories and statistics that demonstrate Educate! as the leader in skills-based education.
• Stakeholder Engagement Support (30%)
• Support with the design and implementation of relationship management processes in Salesforce and maintain the database so that engagement activities are captured and easily shared with, and accessed by, each country team
• Support team in engagement activities, which might include drafting emails, conducting research, and on-site visits.
• Marketing and Event Promotion (20%)
• Create eye-catching, audience-targeted marketing materials that position Educate! as a leader in skills-based secondary education in Africa.
• Support with event promotional campaigns to increase awareness of, and attendance to, Educate! sponsored events.
• Brand Guardianship and Messaging Alignment (10%)
• Be our first line of defense to ensure that branding and messaging to government is aligned with Educate!’s core messaging and branding standards.
• Become an expert in Educate!’s East African communications standards and review content produced by the US team to ensure our relationships in Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya are represented appropriately.

Qualifications

We’re looking for a writing enthusiast who thrives in a collaborative work environment and seizes any opportunity to engage our primary audiences in compelling ways. This person should have a minimum of 1-2 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Graphic design and proficiency in Luganda, Kiswahili, and/or Ikinyarwanda is a plus. This person should fit our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here.

Terms

• This position can be based out of our office in Nairobi, Kampala, or Kigali with a preference for Nairobi
• Compensation will be competitive for the social enterprise sector and commensurate with experience
• Benefits include health insurance and a generous vacation policy

The application deadline will be rolling, with the priority deadline being February 28, 2018.

Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!

We’ve got the impact.
Educate! is designed for scale. We expanded 10x since 2014, going from 54 to almost 600 schools served today in Uganda and Rwanda. We carefully measure our outcomes, and — here’s the best part — we are maintaining quality at scale.
We believe in local leadership — 96% of our staff is African.
Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting thousands more students than we can reach directly.
Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.
We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former US Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.