About the Company

EDUKANS INTERNATIONAL UGANDA — THE BEST PLACE TO LEARN

The Mastercard Foundation is helping Edukans International Uganda carry out the Leaders in Teaching (LIT) initiative. The Luigi Giussani Foundation (LGF) is in charge of the consortium.

The LIT program wants to change secondary education in Africa by giving teachers and school leaders more power and giving young people the skills, knowledge, and abilities they need to do meaningful job.

The program works with a number of partners, including the British Council, STIR Uganda, VVOB, PEAS, FENU, Teach For Uganda (TFU), and Brain Wave. It focuses on four main areas: (1) hiring teachers, (2) training teachers, (3) leading and managing education, and (4) motivating teachers.

Role Overview

The Communications Assistant will help plan, organize, and carry out the LIT Program's communication strategy.

The job is very important for making the program's work more visible, getting stakeholders involved, and helping the public understand it better.

The job includes making high-quality communication materials, helping with advocacy efforts, and working with the Monitoring and Evaluation team to record what the program learns.

The Communications Assistant will make sure that the Mastercard Foundation, LGF, Edukans International, and consortium partners all follow the same rules for communications and advocacy.

Key Responsibilities

1. Putting the LIT Communications Strategy into action

Work with the communications focal points from consortium partners to come up with and put into action a unified communication plan.
Make high-quality reports, presentations, infographics, briefings, blog entries, social media postings, newsletters, press releases, and video stories that show off the program's successes and innovative ideas.
In conjunction with the Country Director's Office, keep the program content on Edukans International Uganda's website and official communication outlets up to date.
Help and take part in training sessions on how to create stories, make digital content, and manage social media.

2. Mapping and getting in touch with stakeholders

Help find and analyze both internal and external stakeholders, and then adapt communication methods to meet their demands.
Help make LIT a leading voice in changing education and training teachers.
Help make policy-relevant content like opinion pieces, policy briefs, knowledge products, and communication materials that are based on evidence.

3. Events and Campaigns

Lead the planning and execution of communication campaigns that promote CPD, gender-responsive teaching, and girls' involvement in STEM.
Help plan and run events like teacher recognition ceremonies, school-level activities, and consortium meetings.

4. Branding, visibility, and getting the media involved

To make your program more visible, build and keep relationships with important media outlets, journalists, and influencers.
Make sure that all communication outputs follow the Mastercard Foundation and consortium branding rules all the time.
Work closely with the Communications Consultant to make sure that all branded materials are of high quality.

5. Keeping an eye on and judging communication activities

Make and use methods to see how well your communication is working (for example, analytics, media monitoring, and audience feedback).
Review and change the communication plan on a regular basis depending on new information and performance statistics.
Put together and share program learnings in easy-to-understand formats like briefs, snapshots, infographics, animations, and more.

Skills, Education, and Qualifications

SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS (WHAT WE BELIEVE IN)

Working together: Builds and keeps up good working connections with coworkers, program teams, and outside partners.

Being creative: Comes up with new ways to communicate and takes smart risks to make things more visible and have a bigger effect. Having worked with Adobe Creative Suite before is a plus.

Honesty: Shows honesty, openness, and professionalism. Knows the rules for ethics, interviews, and keeping kids safe.

Other Tasks: Do whatever extra work that your boss gives you.

Qualifications, experience, and personal specifications

A bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a similar subject from a school that is well-known.
Having worked with educational programming before is a plus.
At least five years of experience in humanitarian or development work, with at least two years in a communications capacity at an international development or humanitarian organization.
Good at talking to people, getting them to do what you want, and negotiating.
Ability to manage relationships with stakeholders in government, NGOs, schools, and donor organizations has been shown.
Ability to make multimedia material including films, campaigns, webinars, and social media posts.
Great skills in writing, editing, and speaking.
Good at using computers and writing down information.

MAIN AUDIENCE: The project beneficiaries, the targeted districts, the government players, the humanitarian and development partners, the UN organizations (including UNHCR and UNICEF), and the donor, the Mastercard Foundation.

GET IN TOUCH
Internal: Staff from the Edukans LIT Programme team and the Edukans International Uganda Country Office.
External: partner organizations, teacher training institutions, schools, government bodies, and other stakeholders, as well as communications consultants and consortium communications leads.

How to Apply

Deadline:Friday, November 21, 2025 @ 4:59 PM EAT

Send in:

A one-page cover letter that lists your qualifications, relevant experience, and compensation expectations.
A short CV (no more than three pages) in PDF.
Copies of academic and other important certificates (the whole file can't be bigger than 5MB).

Please send all of your paperwork in one PDF file to uganda@edukans.orgwith the subject line "COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT LIT."

We highly urge qualified women and people with disabilities (PWDs) to apply. Only those who have been chosen will be contacted.

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