Aga Khan Foundation Communications Consultant Jobs in Uganda

Aga Khan Foundation Communications Consultant Jobs in Uganda


Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, non-denominational development agencies that share a mission to improve the living conditions and opportunities of marginalized communities in target countries across Africa and Asia.

AKF was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in Switzerland in 1967 and began working in East Africa in 1974. In Uganda, AKF operates a multi-sectoral portfolio that includes programming in Education, Economic Inclusion, Civil Society, Health, and Early Childhood Development predominantly in the Central and West Nile Regions.

AKF is committed to ensuring that girls and boys, women and men, are equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to help them interact effectively with the world and be contributing members of a pluralistic society.

Background

AKF, in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), has been delivering the Adolescent Girls’ Education in Crisis Initiative (AGENCI), a four-year project focused on enabling adolescent girls and young women in Moyo and Obongi to pursue diverse educational and learning pathways.

Critical to achieving this is the need to reduce harmful attitudinal and socio-cultural barriers that inhibit or prohibit Adolescent Girls and Female Youth (AGFY) from accessing gender equitable, quality education (including, barriers, such as Sexual and Gender Based Violence and gender inequality).

To combat these harmful cultural norms and beliefs, AGENCI implements both formal and non-formal education interventions to support girls in and out of school. Through this lens, AGENCI is seeking a communications Consultant to execute on campaign themes and messages developed by girls, to promote gender equality.

Gender Equality (GE) Design Process

AKF is working with Human Centered Design (HCD) Experts and 30 girls (15 Moyo, 15 Obongi), the process will also bring on board at least 15 adolescent boys to identify core areas of need to disseminate through a GE communications campaign. It is expected that the Consultant will leverage the key themes and messages developed by girls to execute the campaign in a tactical and innovative way.

Therefore, AKF is seeking a communications Consultant that has experience developing and executing communications campaigns in the West Nile through the lens of Adolescent Girls. It is expected for the Communications Consultant to work closely with the HCD Experts and Girls to execute a girl-led campaign.

Scope of Work

The Consultant will be expected