Marketing & Communications Advisor Can’t Wait to Learn & TeamUp At War Child Holland

‘Dedicated & experienced marketing and communications advisor who can develop & implement programme communication strategies”**

Background

The Can’t Wait to Learn (CWTL) EdTech programme has recently developed its scaling strategy and corresponding business model. The programme is transitioning from an evidence based EdTech innovation that is successfully implemented in 5 countries, to a product that can be scaled more widely.

TeamUp is a movement-based psychosocial support intervention, developed by Save the Children, UNICEF the Netherlands and War Child. On average one day a week the Marketing & Communications Advisor will support the TeamUp Global programme in developing and implementing its communication’s strategy.

For 4 days a week, the Marketing & Communications Advisor will report to the Programme Director of CWTL and carry out global assignments as well as specific tasks relating to one of CWTLs projects, GoBee. For GoBee, they will also be guided by the relevant Project Manager. For TeamUp assignments (average 1 day per week), the Marketing & Communications Advisor will be managed by the Programme Director for that team.

Your Challenge

You are a dedicated & experienced marketing and communications advisor who can develop and implement the programmes communication strategies and provide hands-on communication support for the programmes overall.

You will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing communication strategies for CWTL and TeamUp as this position is key to realising both programmes transition to scale and to fulfil donor commitments of specific CWTL projects.

Location

This position can be stationed in the countries where WCH has its offices but should have availability within the central European time zone due to the nature of the work with existing teams and very short deadlines. The successful candidate also must be eligible to work in that location; preference given to local candidates.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development and Advice

· Develop the communication strategies for the next 4 years – the scaling phase of CWTL and TeamUp – in line with the scaling strategies and in close collaboration with partners at country level.

· Advise the CWTL and TeamUp teams and the IP department, both on request and on their own initiative, on marketing, sales and communications strategies to promote and scale the programmes.

· Serve as the first point of contact for marketing and communications requests, for internal and external audiences.

· Monitor and analyse market trends and translate them into advice to CWTL management, with a focus on scale up.

Implementation

· Identify the best ways to carry out the tasks as identified in the agreed communication strategy.

· Take responsibility for the implementation of agreed communication assignments in coordination with internal and external stakeholders (eg: donors, implementing partners, networks).

· Update internal War Child processes, plans, materials and strategies and align them with new internal and external developments.

· Support country and regional teams to develop communication materials in line with the scaling plans and develop these where necessary.

· Responsible for creating content (text, video, images etc.) for CWTL and TeamUp’s internal and external audiences such as brochures, social media and other (online) communications.

· Organise and coordinate exposure and networking events with internal and external audiences.

Coordination & planning

· Coordinate internal teams with a view to implementing the CWTL communication strategy.

· Coordinate communication teams consisting of external and internal stakeholders or participate in such teams on behalf of War Child, CWTL and/or TeamUp.

· Align CWTL and TeamUp materials with the wider organizational strategy and inform organisational processes.

· Consult country teams (War Child and partner-led) about their content needs for the implementation of the CWTL and TeamUp scaling strategies and collect content for global materials.

· Provide support to relevant staff members on effective communication.

· Make plans and budgets for the communication strategy, monitor progress and evaluate the effectiveness of such activities.

Networking and relationship management

· Identify opportunities within the market of the assigned target group, but also for the organisation in general, and act on these.

· Responsible for maintaining positive relationships with relevant stakeholders in view of implementing the communication assignments.

· Inform partners/relations about new projects and/or changes, promote the organisation and correctly handle questions and/or complaints.

· Identify opportunities for exposure of CWTL and TeamUp such as at conferences and webinars.

· Represent CWTL (and War Child’s) interests in external teams and processes.

· Liaise closely with the communication colleagues of the TeamUp coalition and CWTL project teams scaling partners.

Your Profile**

· Academic background in relevant field (communications, journalism, marketing).

· Strong professional experience in developing communication and/or marketing strategies, plans and actions (for the non-for-profit sector).

· Knowledge and/or proven experience in education and psycho-social support in the Emergency sector and/or EdTech for low-resource environments.

· Solid copywriting and editing skills.

· Strong advisory skills.

· Strong relationship building and diplomacy skills.

· Ability to express thoughts and ideas in writing and in person, in English.

· Fluent in English, knowledge of additional languages (Arabic, French) would be an advantage.

Our Offer

· Salary range from € 3, 090 – € 3, 997 gross per month, based on 40 hours per week (the exact step determined by the years of relevant working experience).

· 28 vacation days on full time basis (consisting of 26 vacation days plus 2 additional fixed free days, based on 40 hours work week).

· A pension scheme fully paid by War Child.

· Reimbursement of your train costs (if travelling to work by train).

· Laptop to work from any location and monthly mobile phone contribution of € 25.

· Possibility to follow training and/or courses where relevant.

· Pleasant working conditions, good atmosphere, great colleagues and of course the meaningful purpose of our work!

Our Organisation**

War Child is a young and dynamic organisation. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace in Amsterdam.