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

•  Behaviour-change, psychology and/or ECD experience
•  Project management or change management experience
•  Experience working in the global south

Please download an Application Form and send the completed form to [email protected] before the deadline