Communications Lead

Building a programme that changes how children learn across Europe is one thing. Making sure the right people know about it is another. The Communications Lead is the person who tells this story. To the education community, to policymakers, to potential partners, and to the public. Not with marketing speak. With clarity, honesty, and the kind of conviction that comes from believing in what you are communicating.

What you will do

You own the communications strategy for a European education programme. You decide how the story is told, where it is shared, and how the results reach the people who can act on them. You make sure the programme grows beyond its founding partners.

Specifically, you will:

• Develop and execute a communications plan for the full duration of the project
• Share programme results, insights, and stories with the European education community
• Manage public engagement across channels, including web, social, events and publications
• Handle EU funding acknowledgment and visibility requirements
• Coordinate dissemination activities with all consortium partners
• Build relationships with education media, networks, and multiplier organisations

What you bring

You know how to communicate complex ideas simply without dumbing them down. You have experience with communications in education, the non-profit sector, or EU-funded projects. You understand that dissemination is not just a deliverable. It is how good work spreads.

You can write. You can plan. You can think strategically about who needs to hear what, and when. You are comfortable working across countries and cultures, with partners who speak different languages and reach different audiences.

Why this matters

European education is full of excellent programmes that never reach beyond their own consortium. The results stay in a final report that nobody reads. The insights stay with the people who were already involved. NextGen Education is designed to break that pattern.

The Communications Lead is the person who makes sure that what we learn in classrooms in Portugal, Finland, or Romania reaches teachers and policymakers in countries we have never visited. You are not just documenting the project. You are extending its impact far beyond the schools that participate directly.

What this looks like in practice

This is a distributed European team. You will work closely with the strategy lead and the partner organisations across the consortium. Communication activities ramp up as the programme produces results, so the workload grows over time.

The role sits within the Erasmus+ KA2 framework, which has specific dissemination requirements. But the ambition goes further. We want the communications work to be genuinely useful, not just compliant. If you believe education stories deserve to be told well, this is a chance to prove it at a European scale.