Programme Communications and Engagement Officer

Organization: Aflatoun International

Location : Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job type: Full time

Salary range: € 2634 and € 2968

Deadline: 11-04-2022

Valid work permit and/or European passport is required in order to be considered for the position.

The Organization

Aflatoun International is a non-profit organization, which offers social, financial & entrepreneurial education to children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a more equitable world. Aflatoun creates high-quality curricula, for different age groups, which are contextualized to local needs and specific circumstances, and are implemented by over 300 partner organizations in 100+ countries, reaching 10 million children (2019).

Aflatoun programmes inspire children to discover their talents and put them to use, to stand up for their rights and those of their communities, to play games and to solve problems. They learn how to save, how to budget and how to set up social and financial enterprises that benefit themselves, their families and their neighbourhoods.

Aflatoun has been recognized globally (Brookings and Harvard) for its high-impact, low-cost model, which has demonstrated to be effective in changing behaviors of its participants across the globe. By using a social franchise model, Aflatoun transfers curricular content, monitoring and evaluation tools, and training capacity to partner organizations, helping them to enhance their existing expertise and to create an efficient learning ecosystem. Aflatoun’s programmes follow an active-learning, participant-centered methodology, which combines social and financial education to transform the lives of their participants, educators, civil society organizations and other NGOs. Aflatoun International has been ranked at the 25th place in the NGO world TOP500 by Global Geneva, a non-profit platform.

Aflatoun has a multidisciplinary team of professionals. We are now looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Programme Support Officer to join us in our mission.

Position

The Programmes Department is responsible for providing technical assistance for Aflatoun’s network partner organizations. It is composed of 6 Regional Managers, 6 Regional coordinators, a national integration specialist, an adolescent girl’s specialist and the Head of Programmes. The Programme Communication & Engagement Officer will be responsible for providing administrative and logistic support to the Programmes Department.

Key Responsibilities:

1- Manage the Aflatoun partner platform

a. Coordinate with all departments to collect content to share with the partners on the platform

b. Coordinate responses to requests by partners etc.

c. Generate a monthly report related to the engagement level of the partners

2- Responsible of the coordination with the communications department regarding social media, visibility and events

a. Support in the planning and coordination of the international conference and annual regional meetings

b. Coordinate all communications needs of the Programmes and remaining departments.

3- Support in the management of the partners:

a. Coordinate with all programme managers to update the partners profiles and status on Salesforce

b. Share an updated list of partners with Operations to issue the invoices

c. Share the invoices with the partners and follow up

d. Coordinate with Operations to update the payment status of partners on Salesforce

e. Support in the development of partner contracts, invoices and keep an up-to-date file on all transactions.

4- Manage small projects involving programmes work

a. Act as project manager for small size grants involving only programmes activities

5- Support the programmes team on an administrative level

a. Prepare and maintains the Programmes team annual agenda and update the annual workplan.

b. Support the development of programmes department’s ToRs, guidelines, standards for events as well as general reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree

· At least 3 years work experience

· Excellent planning and organizing skills

· Excellent verbal and written communications in English (Knowledge one or more of the following languages is advantageous; Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian)

· Cross-cultural competency to engage with diverse populations

· Strong interpersonal, partnership-building and collaboration skills

· Proficient in use of Microsoft Office 365

· Tech savvy and strong analytical skills.

· Motivated, energized and excited to work for the mission of the organization

· Positive, can-do approach to overall work and challenges

Conditions of Employment

The position is for a fulltime workweek (40 hours). We offer a dynamic and pleasant multicultural working environment, with an indicative gross yearly salary range of € 2634 and € 2968 (inclusive of pension, health insurance, holiday allowance and national insurance contributions) – the salary level awarded will depend on relevant work experience and educational background.

Valid work permit and/or European passport is required in order to be considered for the position.