Curriculum Manager at Lively Minds Ghana

Main duties and responsibilities
Strategic Development

Contribute to the global scale and sustainability strategy for Lively Minds.
Develop and implement plans to support the achievement of strategic goals.
Identify and drive forward strategies to support grassroots demand, and government motivation,uptake and sustainability strategies.

Curriculum optimisation

Lead the content team to develop engaging context-appropriate content, founded in behavioural science techniques, to improve the early childhood care and education provided to rural children.
In particular, we are growing our bank of radio episodes and in-person workshops for parents.
Update the existing content and approaches to strengthen community engagement, inclusivity and ensure that programme activities and processes are optimised, so that burdens are minimised and tasks are simplified.
Own a database of all curriculum and materials, so that templates can be reused and lessons learnt and incorporated
Work with the Head of Monitoring & Evaluation and with external evaluators to develop ways to evaluate and communicate the programme’s impact and user experience
Work with other team members to identify ways to improve the programme, curriculum, approaches, systems and practices to ensure it is as simple, scalable and user-focussed as possible.

“Government as doer” strategy

Build the technical skills of government trainers to deliver programme activities to high standards, by developing training content, coaching frameworks and tools (e.g. how to monitor, how coach and give feedback, problem solving).
Develop training and tools for government that will build their general ability to coordinate and project manage the programme (e.g. skills in work planning, SMART goals, data analysis, problem solving)
Analyse bottlenecks affecting the quality of delivery or sustainability and find creative scalable ways to raise performance levels of government implementers (e.g. normalising feedback and self-reflection, incentivising good behaviours, accountability measures for low performance)
Work with the Head of Monitoring & Evaluation and Country Directors to evaluate government uptake, capacity, motivation levels.
Review and iterate strategy and approaches in response to feedback loops.

Implementation and training excellence

Develop strategies that support staff and government partners to facilitate training to the highest standard and to strengthen the cascade delivery model
Conduct field visits to supervise and observe the quality of training and work with COO and Country Directors to identify implementation challenges and risks, and create effective systems, tools, trainings, materials to improve quality of implementation, and specifically the cascade delivery approach.

Line management
Line manage content team (currrent two curriculum specialists)

To succeed in this role, you:

Love to develop creative training and support materials (e.g manuals, guides, checklists) & understand how to make learning fun, easy and stickable
Understand how to get content scaled through a cascade system with quality and fidelity
Are able to deliver high-quality thoughtful work in a fast-pace environment
Are able to drive high performance in others by setting clear goals and expectations
Are creative, proactive, and energetic
Are a team player that values and prioritises inclusivity

Technical abilities
Essential

Minimum of 3 years experience of creating a training curriculum and simple user-friendly tools and processes
Experience in overseeing effective delivery of content through a cascade
Excellent communication (English), both oral and written
Experience managing and coaching others
Proven ability to manage a complex and varied workload and to deliver at pace

Desirable

Please download an Application Form and send the completed form to jobs@livelyminds.org before the deadline.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Deadline for applications: 11:59pm GMT on Friday 13th January 2023.