Senior Director, Communication at NewGlobe

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement -  all grounded in learning science - to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Director, Communication

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Working Configuration: Hybrid (3+ days a week in office)
Reports To: VP Marketing

About the Role 

• We are looking for a communications leader who will help our communications team drive awareness, affinity and engagement for the NewGlobe organization, and, of equal importance, the eight (and counting!) government programs spanning the globe for which we are their technical partner.
• Building top-down messaging strategies on how our mission aligns to the value our government partners experience is a must.
• However, creating the processes to identify key stories from the field—students learning to read, teachers being trained on how to use new technologies and pedagogies, administrators and politicians reviewing real time dashboards to make data-informed decisions—and elevating and amplifying those stories via social media, digital properties, and print publications, is just as central to this role.
• A central goal of NewGlobe’s marketing and communications department is to make our government partners famous for the work we help them perform to transform their education programs, and this role is vital in achieving that goal.
• Collecting and amplifying moments of impact is how movements are made.
• The role of the Senior Director, Global Communications is to do just that.

What You Will Do

• Own the global communications strategy, with input and alignment across key executive and regional stakeholders
• Provide exceptional performance and program management for our regional communications team of 20 employees (and growing)
• Manage the regional communications team, and ensure their communications campaigns, both regionally and for our government partnerships, are optimised for success.
• Work with our government counterparts’ leadership and communications teams to ensure our strategies are aligned to prioritise the right audiences, messages, and channels.
• Build and execute communications campaigns that drive excitement about our programs, and inspire action
• Coordinate and support global initiatives that drive NewGlobe’s stature as a thought leader in the space—award submissions, global media coverage, panel invitations and conference presentations
• Establish and maintain clear goals and measurement frameworks for communications initiatives.

What You Should Have

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in progressively larger scope people and project management positions
• Experience managing a large team of communications professionals, ideally geographically distributed
• Strong track record of communications work in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or Southern Asia
• Direct experience managing political campaigns and/or government program campaigns preferred
• Experience developing and delivering comprehensive media strategies and campaigns, with a bias toward digital properties
• Experience working within, and managing teams in a globally matrixed organization
• Direct experience managing crisis communications
• A strong portfolio of either pitched and placed media coverage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.