Events and Communications Consultant at Ubongo
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
About the job
Type: Consultancy
Recommended:
Sector: Non-profit
Published: 27th February, 2023
Deadline to Apply: 14th March, 2023
Duration: 1-year consultancy contract with a possible extension into a full-time role
Organization Summary:
UBONGO is Africa’s leading producer of kids’ edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 32 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our shows Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa, in Swahili, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Hausa, Chichewa, and Juba Arabic.
Job Position:
We are looking for an Events & Communications Consultant. Working at Ubongo won’t be easy, but it will challenge and excite you with lots of responsibilities, and plenty of fun, and give you the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of kids every day.
We’re looking for a dynamic, creative, and flexible Events and Communications Consultant to expand and improve our communications department.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Senior Strategic Communications Manager and Director of Communications & Development,
You will work collaboratively with our teams in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Malawi, and South Africa to help increase awareness of our brand and campaigns amongst key stakeholders including development partners, potential funders, policy-makers, government officials, educators, caregivers, kids and the public at large. This role involves planning stakeholder events, reaching out to corporate and development partners, and finding different opportunities to tell our story through traditional and digital media, events and conferences, and relationship building.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and manage 25 small to large-scale stakeholder meetings and events across Africa
- Lead planning and execution of conferences and stakeholder events across different markets
- Liaise with vendors and event partners (venues, caterers, media, content providers, etc.)
- Secure event partnerships with external organizations
- Prepare narrative and quantitative reports from events
- Support country teams in planning and implementation of audience (B2C) events like roadshows and watch parties
- Support with the implementation of communication and marketing campaigns targeted at our B2B audience
- Work with Senior Strategic Communications Manager to create and execute PR and media outreach strategy
- Provide press and media content and information needed
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including NGOs, corporates, schools, partners, government officials, and service providers
- Create and manage the dissemination of communication materials, including press releases, articles, pitch decks, campaign briefs, case studies, corporate website content, B2B video scripts, and blog posts.
- Manage content creation for Ubongo corporate channels – YouTube, website, newsletter, LinkedIn
- Create and manage content calendar for dissemination of all B2B content/thought leadership via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- Create and disseminate monthly newsletters for our B2B audience
- Write case studies, copy for infographics, B2B short video scripts, and white papers about Ubongo, our partnerships, and areas of expertise
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KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, and QUALIFICATIONS:
- You love what we do, and are driven by our mission and value.
- At least a bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or public relations/or proven experience in these fields.
- 3+ years of professional experience in business-to-business (preferably in education but not mandatory) and managing communications resources.
- Fluent in both written and oral English and Swahili.
- Excellent writing skills, with the ability to adjust your writing style to fit Ubongo’s tone of voice and brand.
- Proven public speaking and pitching abilities.
- Experience in event planning and management.
- Verifiable contacts and relationships in media and the corporate world.
- Good understanding of the local context, including, how to deal with local government, culture, and community dynamics
- Extremely organized and independent, with great project management skills able to effectively plan, organize and maintain clear documentation
- Good communicator, and an empathetic pusher
- Access to a laptop and the ability to bring it to work.
- Experience working for social causes about education, children and youth, or gender is a bonus.
- Passionate about education, storytelling, and being a changemaker.
- Willing to speak up for what’s right, when you see wrong, or when you think there might be a better way.
- Honest, trustworthy, transparent, and conscientious.
Should be ready to start mid-April, 2023 (1-year consultancy contract with a possible extension into a full-time role)
Phew! You made it through that. The good thing is that there are also perks, like a delicious healthy lunch at the office, flexible working hours, and working remotely and you get to watch cartoons at work.
APPLY USING THIS ONLINE FORM.
Just so you know, only applicants who apply using this online form will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be referred back to this online form.
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to this form. THANKS!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
UBONGO provides equal employment opportunities to all its employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the laws of the country we are operating in.
Behavior Change Communication Consultant at Ubongo
Ubongo Tanzania
Contract
About the job
Type: Services Agreement Contract (Remote, Anywhere in Africa)
Sector: Non-profit
Published: 24th February, 2023
Deadline: 10th March 2023
Duration of project: March 27th, 2023 – April 28th, 2023
Ubongo is a Pan-African social enterprise that leverages the power of entertainment, the reach of mass media, and the insights of kid-centered design, to bring effective, localized learning to African families at low cost and massive scale.
We entertain kids to learn and love learning: building brains, and building change.Ubongo seeks an experienced Behaviour Change Communication Consultant with experience working in mass communications and marketing in the context of the international development sector, to help develop a communication strategy to promote Ubongo’s New Show.
About the show:
Nuzo and Namia are 7-year-old twins who live with their parents. They share a very strong bond with their grandmother who has always told them stories of her adventures as a “traveler”, however, they live far from her. When their grandmother passes away, their parents decide to move into their grandmother’s house to help them cope with the loss. Inside the house, the twins discover a magic bookshelf. The magic shelf has different storybooks that magically pull them in and take them to a different country in Africa in each episode. Through their adventures with a magical creature found in these books (Bubelang), they learn about different cultures and character strengths, while developing their reading and listening comprehension skills.
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Important show themes :
- The New show raises awareness of neurodiversity – that all brains work differently and celebrating the differences in people
- It is very literacy focused to help build kids’ comprehension skills.
- The show is inclusive of learning through play and encourages parents to join in playing with their kids.
- Each episode will represent different countries and teach them about different cultures.
Deliverables:
- Organize and conduct interviews and focus group research with parents in key markets: ability to organize and conduct research in local languages
- Develop marketing messaging and guidelines based on research and user test it in key markets.
- Use learning and insights to create a communications framework/strategy targeted at for with consideration to different platforms – social media, TV, radio, WhatsApp, sms.
- Provide a detailed report on all work done and all materials developed in an editable format.
Timelines: The assignment should be completed within 4 weeks.
Key Activities
- Determine the method for involving stakeholders
- Write a short summary of analyses and build consumer profiles
- Define a theory and the target audiences
- Develop communication objectives
- Select strategic approaches
- Identify the most important advantages and supports
- Design core messages
- Test messages in key markets
Relevant experience and skills
The consultant should have:
- Developed at least 2 communication strategies in a Pan-African context that are relevant to the deliverables above.
- At Least 5 years experience of working with partner organizations (NGOs or local government).
- Demonstrable experience in developing impactful behavioral change communication tools and materials.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in Human Centered Design and other user-centered approaches is strongly preferred.
- Ability to work independently as well as in cooperation with a multicultural team.
- Ability to think creatively and strategically.
HOW TO APPLY:
Given the information above, share a project plan and budget that demonstrates how you would go about delivering on the deliverables’.
Submit your technical and financial proposal to: melissa@ubongo.org by March 10th, 2023 at 10AM.
Only proposals will be considered. No CV submitted will be put into consideration for this tendering process.
Please include your tentative budget in your proposal.
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Technical proposal
Objective – Define goals and outcomes
Methodology and Approach – How do you plan to involve stakeholders in
different markets and what information will you be researching
Work Plan – Break down of timelines and goals
Monitoring and evaluation plan – How will you plan to test the designed
messages and determine whether they are successful or not
Qualifications – Detail your relevant experience and skills addressing
each of the eight points stated in the ‘Relevant Experience and Skills’
section above, including creativity and impact in previous communication
work
Three client references for relevant assignments.
Financial proposal
Total fees plus a breakdown
Structure (e.g. daily, deliverable-based, etc)
Fixed costs
Reimbursable expenses
