[Hiring] Planning, Reporting & Communications Advisor @Save the Children International

Role Description

As a multi-donor funded programme, the consortium partners with selected education providers to strengthen their capacity to deliver and sustain access and education opportunities for children who face barriers to learning. The post holder will provide advisory services in ensuring quality and strategic planning, reporting and communications products are prepared for submission to donors for the programme. S/he will support the team through strategic and technical inputs and quality assurance for annual operating plans, regular donor progress reports, and key communication products such as success stories are generated. S/he will play a key role in communicating our work, its successes and impact, through the development of reports and implementation of a strategic communications workstream that produces ready-to-use communications products. S/he will provide training, coaching and mentorship in line with team requirements.

Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party – Programme Operations

Staff reporting to this post: 0

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in an area such as International Development Studies, Education, Communications or Media, International Relations or another relevant field or equivalent qualifications through work experience.
• More than 5 years’ experience in a relevant technical role (education, communications and media, research and learning, MEAL, advocacy) with demonstrated successes.
• Excellent proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Experience in education programming with a sound understanding of issues in education in development, across conflict- or crisis-affected contexts.
• Experience working with major donors / development partners in report writing and producing communication materials.
• Experience working in Myanmar preferred.

Requirements

• Accountability:
  • Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
  • Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Ambition:
  • Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
  • Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
  • Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
• Collaboration:
  • Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
  • Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
  • Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
• Creativity:
  • Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
  • Willing to take disciplined risks.
• Integrity:
  • Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
  • Always acts in the best interests of children.

Benefits

• Six-month contract (expected working days up to sixty days).
• Remote, home-based within the Asia region.

Application Process

• Interested and qualified individuals are requested to send, by 22 May 2026 at 17:00 hrs, their Curriculum Vitae and proposed daily rate to [email protected] .
• The subject of the email should be “Consultancy for Planning, Reporting & Communications”.