ECD -Digital Projects Coordinator

Job Description

The IRC is currently looking for a Digital Projects Coordinator to lead on the Regional ECD Digital Portfolio. The position will report to the Regional Project Director and will be responsible for the operationalization of the ECD Digital Strategy and the oversight and management of ECD digital projects. The portfolio includes Ahlan Simsim, Play to Learn and Vroom projects, and initiatives that encompass a content management system and digitization of content, app development and testing, piloting of a mass messaging platform, management of social media platforms and client engagement strategies and roll-out of digital literacy initiatives, among others.The ECD Digital Projects Coordinator will be responsible for the following key objectives:

• Lead on all regional ECD Digital projects ? management and coordination
• Support digital content development and content digitization processes
• Oversee the development of social media and digital engagement strategies
• Contribute to Research, Evaluation and Learning on digital initiatives
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships that contribute to digital and scaling work streams

Key responsibilities

• Digital projects management & coordination
• Lead on the operationalization of the ECD Regional Digital Strategy;
• Provide strategic guidance and technical support to ECD teams in the development and roll-out of digital solutions;
• Oversee and track status of all digital projects, ensuring they all work in line with set timelines and expectations;
• Regularly up-date of work plans, spending plans and progress reports;
• Lead regular coordination meetings to up-date key stakeholders on the status of digital projects;
• Ensure administrative management of consultant and vendor contracts, including liaison between consultants/vendors and IRC teams, execution of contract deliverables and payments, etc.

Content development and digitization processes

• Support the development and maintenance of a content management system (CMS) to help staff organize, manage and disseminate content digitally;
• Oversee content development digitization processes, including videos, audio clips, images and social media feeds;
• Provide technical and final review of digital content for consistency with donor requirements and branding guidelines;
• Lead coordination between content, technology and research teams to ensure content meets the needed timeline, quality and specifications for digital release;
• Supervise a team of full-time, part-time and/or consultants covering content development and digitization, e-learning initiatives, management of social media platforms, graphic design, etc.
• Support the development of digital literacy initiatives (for staff, facilitators and clients) that encourages technology knowledge as a life skill.
• Social Media and client digital engagement
• Oversee the roll-out of caregiver-facing digital solutions, such as the WhatsApp distant learning/Mass Messaging Platform, WhatsApp caregiver groups and Caregiver/Facilitator Apps;
• Monitor current digital technologies and trends, with a particular focus on digital platforms and tools most frequently used by vulnerable and displaced populations in the region.
• Develop and execute a Communications and Social media strategy for IRC?s ECD projects (Ahlan Simsim, Play to Lear, Vroom), including an M&E strategy, aimed at reaching vulnerable, displaced and host community audiences;
• Oversee Facebook page, reviewing and updating regularly per approved cadence and process. Stay up-to-date on Facebook guidance to ensure compliance and address any changes to the platform before they happen;
• Design and strategies to support community outreach and client digital engagement strategies and regularly pitch ideas for new social media content;
• Support the development of training materials on user generated content.

Research, evaluation and learning initiatives

• Support in the design of a framework to track the reach, progress and effectiveness of ECD digital interventions, including set-up of outcomes, outputs, indicators and means of verification;
• Support in the integration of M&E tools in existing data collection and monitoring systems and processes, and capacity building of staff;
• Set specific objectives, analyze data and report regularly on reach, trends and learnings;
• Support the design and implement rigorous testing of digital content and digital pilots;?
• Coordinate the production of case studies and external presentations on digital projects.

Strategic partnerships and scaling

• Ensure digital projects and products are designed in a way that facilitates broad dissemination and scaling as well as with a strategic, low-cost business model for maintenance;
• Identify, build and maintain strategic partnerships with digital or technology organizations and companies as well as build those relationships within the IRC and existing IRC partners;
• Represent and advance IRC?s profile externally in innovation and technology fora and events in the region.

Key Working Relationships: Position Reports to:?Regional Project Director ? Ahlan Simsim Position supervises: a team of full-time, part time and/or consultants, covering functions such as ECD content development, content digitization, social media management, information management, graphic design, etc. Other Internal and/or external contacts: Internal: ECD staff (regional and countries? teams), Technical Advisors (region and HQ based), IRC support staff;???????External: Sesame Workshop, donors, local partners and authorities, community representatives.

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