INOVASI 3 - Strategic Communications Manager
Project Overview and Role:
Indonesia’s Vision 2045 sets the goal for Indonesia to transition from a resource-based economy towards an advanced service, technology, and knowledge-based economy by the centenary of its independence (2045). The 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Plan emphasises the urgency of Indonesia’s human resource development to fully realise 2045 goals.
Faced however with persistent low student performance that is emblematic of a learning crisis, significant improvement in student learning will be required to reach Indonesia’s 2045 goals. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has started an ambitious program of education reforms. Successive education ministers have set out to modernise the education system through reforming the national curriculum and teaching and assessment approaches, to produce citizens with strong foundational skills, open minds, and inclusive values.
Australia is a long-term supporter of the Indonesian basic education sector, with continuous investments supporting education quality improvements for the past two decades, including through the INOVASI program (Phase 1 2016-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023) that focused on supporting acquisition of literacy and numeracy foundational skills in early grades classrooms; exploring local problems and solutions; and generating evidence to inform government policy development and practices.
This third phase of INOVASI (2024-2027) builds upon the existing program’s approach and lessons learned and takes the focus on the development of foundational skills through to the end of the primary grades. Phase 3 will engage with priority issues of Australia’s development policy: gender equality, effective inclusion of children with a disability, responses to the climate change challenge in education. It will focus on the challenge of policy implementation and the gaps that exist between national policies and practices at district and school levels, and use the well attested-success of INOVASI’s local problem-based approach to continuously support policy development for effective fit between policy and implementation context.
The Program is managed by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Purpose of the Position:
The Strategic Communications Manager will lead INOVASI’s communications portfolio. The Strategic Communications Manager will lead the communications team to communicate results, advance advocacy goals, and generate visibility. Communications activities will spotlight the work of education actors who are strengthening the education ecosystem and underscore the importance of DFAT’s public diplomacy commitments to support implementation of inclusive primary education policies and practices for foundational skills nationwide.
He or she will oversee implementation of the communications and public diplomacy strategy that outlines the program’s communications goals, updated messaging framework, audience targeting, and communications products and platforms for Phase III.
The Strategic Communications Manager will demonstrate strong leadership skills, and effectively lead the communications team by building understanding of INOVASI’s communication goals, conveying priorities, setting deliverables, and providing strong project management and coordination skills. The Strategic Communications Manager will be responsible for ensuring transparent management of budget and resources and will motivate and support the team to drive and deliver communication initiatives. He or she will regularly report on communication activities ensuring INOVASI staff and stakeholders are well-informed.
The Strategic Communications Manager will also provide strategic and technical leadership for achievement of communications goals in partner provinces. This will be done through a ‘matrix’ management structure and system whereby implementation of activities at the subnational level will be the responsibility and accountability of the Provincial Managers, while the Strategic Communications Manager will be responsible and accountable for the provision of relevant technical expertise to help conceptualise, design and quality assure the implementation of communications activities at the sub-national level.
Working with children
Is this position likely to come into contact with children? ☒ Yes ☐ No
Duties: Under the direction of Deputy Director, Education Policy, Performance and Learning, the Strategic Communications Manager will be responsible for:
Required Qualifications:
The Strategic Communications Manager will possess the following qualifications and experience:
Application closed on Thursday, April 4th 2024 at 11.59 PM (Jakarta time)
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Due to the anticipated volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted. All applications should be submitted through the Palladium website. Should you experience any issues lodging an application online please contact inovasi.recruitment@thepalladiumgroup.com stating the position in the subject line.
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