ECDE Creative Content Development Specialist (Re-advert)

• Job Description: ECCE Creative Content Development Specialist

  • Team/Programme: USAID/LEGO Foundation Childhood Development Activity
  • Location: Ethiopia Country Office, Addis Ababa
  • Grade: 2A
  • Type of Contract: National
  • Child Safeguarding: Level 2
    • Contact with children and/or young people either frequently or intensively due to work in country programs, visiting country programs, or implementing the police checking/vetting process.
• Role Purpose:
  • Member of the USAID/LEGO Foundation Childhood Development Activity team.
  • Implementing the project in collaboration with 7 local partners targeting crisis-affected pre-primary school age children in five regions of Ethiopia.
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Technical Leadership:
    • Map and adapt existing audio, video, and print content on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE).
    • Develop content for ECCE video lessons, dramas, stories, and songs.
    • Collaborate with partners to ensure guideline adherence for using audio and print productions in ECCE centers.
  • Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
    • Scope and sequence tailored audio and print productions on ECCE.
    • Provide capacity building training to partners on using audio and print productions.
    • Monitor and support ECCE teachers and facilitators in using audio materials for playful learning.
  • Networking & External Engagement:
    • Work with district ECCE actors to collect and adapt stories, dialogues, songs for audio and print production.
    • Participate in district-level ECCE technical working groups.
    • Collaborate with community leaders and organizations for content development.
• Behavioural Competencies (Values in Practice):
  • Accountability:
    • Holds self and partners accountable for decision-making, resource management, and upholding Save the Children values.
  • Ambition:
    • Sets ambitious goals, takes responsibility for personal development, and encourages team development.
  • Collaboration:
    • Builds effective relationships, values diversity, and encourages open communication.
  • Creativity:
    • Develops and encourages innovative solutions, willing to take disciplined risks.
  • Integrity:
    • Honest, transparent, and demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.
    • Commits to working in an inclusive agency that fights discrimination and promotes diversity.

• Job Requirements:

  • Education:
    • BA degree in Early Childhood Care and Education, Creative Arts, Theatrical Arts, literature, Journalism, or related social sciences.
    • Training in educational audio and video script writing and content development.
  • Experience and Skills:
    • At least 7 years of experience in developing content for audio, video, and print lessons targeting children.
    • Experience in preparing play scripts, songs, dramas, and local stories for young children’s development.
    • Awareness of regional contexts, especially in conflict and disaster-affected areas of Ethiopia.
    • Proficient in English and relevant local languages.
• Key Competencies:
  • Technical Competencies:
    • Ensures all children’s access to quality education and wellbeing.
  • Generic Competencies:
    • Being the Voice of Children, Advancing Equality & Inclusion, Building & Strengthening Partnerships, Child Rights.
• Additional Responsibilities:
  • The role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
• Equal Opportunities:
  • The role adheres to SCI’s global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies.
• Child Safeguarding:
  • The selection process includes rigorous background checks to protect children from abuse.
• Safeguarding our Staff:
  • The role adheres to the SCI anti-harassment policy.
• Health and Safety:
  • The role follows SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

• How to Apply:

  • Attach a CV and cover letter with details of current remuneration and salary expectations.
  • Apply through this link.

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Deadline: Feb 28, 2024