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Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop an overarching communications strategy document that will guide how to tell the UMEL story internally and externally.

• Develop a knowledge management system by establishing a system for capturing, organizing, and disseminating MEL-related resources, tools, and best practices to facilitate access to information and promote learning.

• Create and manage stakeholder outreach strategies in collaboration with a broader outreach team to promote learning outcomes and best practices across the mission and implementing partners.

• Develop content (including ideation, creation, editing, and visuals) to support learning and adaptive management strategies tailored to identified audiences, ensuring clarity and relevance of communication materials.

• Supervise the Graphics and Multimedia Specialist by providing creative direction on all design-related tasks.

• Lead the support for the UMEL technical teams in developing tailored training materials that are visually appealing, interactive, and consistent with USAID’s branding and marking guidelines.

• Create engaging and accessible dissemination products to share insights, lessons learned, and best practices across the Mission and with implementing partners.

• Conduct stakeholder engagement efforts to understand diverse user communication needs.

• Synthesize and distill data and learnings from evaluations, assessments, studies, and reviews into digestible knowledge management and visualizations for stakeholder engagement to be used for strategic decisions and practical implementation.

• Build internal capacity of colleagues in basic communication skills, such as using approved USAID-branded slide decks and reporting templates.

• Collaborate with the Learning Practice Specialist and Director of Performance Improvement to support the documentation of CLA case studies within IPs, the Mission, and the UMEL Activity.

• Lead the completion, editing, and formatting tasks to finalize program documents and communications consistent with USAID branding and written standards.

• Participate in field visits and support community outreach efforts, including developing field activity schedules, site briefers, etc.

• Develop thought leadership pieces, such as blogs and impact stories, for USAID/Uganda and BIXAL to share externally.

• Support the development and finalizing of work plans and reports for the USAID client.

• Leverage analytics tools and platforms to measure the effectiveness of campaigns and use the metrics to recommend improvements.

• Perform other duties as required.