[Overall Job Responsibility]
You will lead a team who is responsible for delivering Public Education initiatives to promote disability awareness and inclusion in our society. You will work with funders, employers, educators, social service agencies, essential service providers and strategic partners to identify ways to collaborate and enhance disability awareness and inclusion in schools, at work and in the community. You will have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with motivated people who are passionate about disability inclusion.
[Duties and Responsibilities]
- Drive the development of public education strategy and framework to achieve desired outcomes of raising awareness about disability and inclusion
- Seek out and manage strategic collaborations with key external stakeholders (e.g. government agencies, social service agencies, corporations, social enterprises, community partners) to embark on initiatives that promote disability awareness amongst the general public and in targeted settings, offer opportunities to bridge knowledge to action and enable greater inclusion of persons with disabilities
- Manage appointed creative agency and associated vendors including paid media partnership to carry out disability awareness campaigns, development of resources for stakeholders, and the design and production of collaterals within stipulated timelines
- Keep up with social issues or challenges faced by persons with disabilities and consider how public education could be leveraged to alleviate such issues
- Lead the impact study of the public education initiatives to measure the overall effectiveness of the public education campaign and conduct an in-depth review of the strategy
- Oversee the administration of a grant that funds organisations to carry out inclusive events or activities (that are within the ambit of the grant), which includes processing of grant applications and fund disbursement
- Manage budgets and periodic reporting to funders
[Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience]
- Degree holder in relevant discipline
- At least 8 – 10 years’ experience in organising and delivering campaigns (including social/digital media campaigns), events or programmes
- Able to demonstrate excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking, communication, interpersonal, and facilitation skills
- Strong leadership skills and able to persuade and influence others
- Outgoing personality, action-oriented with a collaborative and can-do spirit
- Strong ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, resourceful and work within tight deadlines
- Strong project management skills
- Strong command of spoken and written English
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