Responsibilities include:

• Maintain effective communications and good relations with project partners and other external entities and individuals, including local media and beneficiaries
• Design activities and opportunities to engage communities to support their children to develop oral language skills and the foundational sub-skills of literacy in the early grades.
• Help design and develop a social and behavior change communication (SBCC) campaign to engage communities in supporting their children to develop early grade reading skills
• Produce project outreach materials, including brochures, leaflets, and other public communications materials for various project events
• Work with journalists, photographers, designers, and celebrities supporting project programming

Qualifications:

• Minimum four years of experience serving as a communications and project management professional on donor-funded projects
• Significant experience developing and executing communications plans and standalone events in collaboration with government ministries and international donor partners
• Experience conducting public outreach campaigns, and engaging local communities, teachers, and parents to deliver program messages
• Proven ability to identify key stakeholders, and engage and facilitate effective dialogue between stakeholders while balancing multiple priorities
• Superb interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills with native Nyanja/Chewa or Bemba, and fluent English