Writing your master thesis at Rescue Dada Centre: Joining Rescue Dada team as a specialist

Focus of thesis: External communication and Corporate Identity

Duration for thesis: 6 to 8 months

About Rescue Dada Centre

Rescue Dada Centre’s legal holder is the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi. The Centre was established in 1992, as an organization doing street work to get to understand the circumstances of the girls living on the streets while operating a walk-in Centre where street connected children could come to share about their life experiences with the social workers. Within a short time, the organization realized that the girls on the streets were exposed to so much abuse and they needed to be rescued from such an environment before a more comprehensive strategy of addressing their plight was found. Therefore, the two roomed rescue operation in Mathare slums would soon expand to a Centre rescuing, rehabilitating and reintegrating street connected girls.

Today Rescue Dada Centre has grown into an experienced, registered Charitable Children’s Institution (CCI), with 26 staff and the capacity to rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate 70 street connected girls every year. Its expertise in the field of rehabilitation and reintegration is recognized amongst numerous actors in the field, including the government’s Children’s Department, various CCIs, and (international) NGOs. The management, over the years, has been able to develop an effective operational structure for the Centre’s work, guided by comprehensive operational policies and a strategic planning, action and reflection cycle that informs the Centre’s work.

Overview

Rescue Dada Centre is seeking a mutual collaboration with a Master student in corporate and organizational communication programs by providing an opportunity to put his/her specialist knowledge to practical use by writing their Master thesis at a Rescue Dada Centre.

We believe that strong communication is important for the success of companies of all sizes, and across all industries. Corporate and organizational communication includes all forms of communication that occur within a company or other organizational setting. Organizational communication includes internal communication within a company (e.g., human resources and employee training, corporate management and leadership), and communication between a company and the public (e.g., public relations (PR) and marketing).We wish to have a niche and grow our presence in various forums, improve our corporate image/identity and essentially develop a winning external communication strategy and Standard operating procedure.

This is our challenge and we present it to you to help us investigate and present solutions as part of you Master’s Thesis. The specifics of the collaboration will be agreed between you, your thesis supervisor and Rescue Dada Centre. The thesis work can be written in cooperation with, or on behalf of a company.

Does this topic knock your socks off and seem fun to write about?

If the answer is yes, we would be happy to have you joining our team as a specialist.

What’s in it for the student?

In addition to proposing a solution to a concrete problem you can contribute new ideas and perspectives that can be used further which can be extremely satisfying. This will give you a good insight into how theoretical knowledge is applied in practice as well as opportunities for new contacts in the working life.

You will get high practical orientation and results-oriented cooperation within our team.

You will gain practical experience as a working student and during practical work at a company.

You will develop their professional networks

The student will own the results and the copyright for the thesis.

Rescue Dada Centre will be responsible for costs, such as prints, postage and travel.

To be eligible for this role

Candidates must be at the thesis level with a background in master’s in organizational communication, master’s in corporate communication, master’s in business communication, Masters in public relations and any other relevant master’s program that is applicable to this thesis.

Fluency in English is required.

We believe that graduates of the above-mentioned Masters Programs are experts in understanding how strong communication can facilitate team building, project progress, and a positive relationship between a company and the public, investors, and other stakeholders external to the company. It is this knowledge that Rescue Dada seeks to tap through the collaboration and together develop a winning external communication and corporate identity strategy that could be replicated in other organizations.

How to Apply

For further discussion, please contact Ivy.Nakova@rescuedadacentre.org