CTG overview:
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Overview of position:
Breakthrough ACTION is a 5 year cooperative agreement funded by the USAID to lead their Social Behavior Change (SBC) programming around the world. Breakthrough ACTION is a partnership led by the Johns Hopkins Center for communication programs in collaboration with Save the Children, ThinkPlace, ideas42, Camber Collective, International Center for Research on Women & Viamo. The project works in partnership with govt’s., civil society & communities to implement creative & sustainable SBC programming, nurture SBC champions, mainstream new techniques, technologies, advocate for strategic & sustained investment in SBC.
In South Sudan Breakthrough Action will focus their efforts on family planning, maternal, child health, water, sanitation & hygiene & the COVID-19 response through innovative evidence based SBC interventions. In addition, Breakthrough Action will support capacity strengthening of key stakeholders in their ability to design, implement & evaluate SBC activities.
Role objectives:
The incumbent will provide technical guidance & capacity strengthening for SBC to the project in the application of SBC approaches in the design & roll out of high quality SBC interventions, especially discovery, definition & design of activities. They should have knowledge in communication theory, behavioural economics & human centered design.
Support the Sr. SBC Program Officer to help lead SBC initiatives & serve technical authority for Breakthrough ACTION South Sudan.
Support the design, planning, implementation, monitoring of social, behavior change & risk communication programming.
Assist with development, review, pretesting, refinement, & finalization of SBC materials & tools.
Lead the design, planning, implementation, monitoring of social & behavior change programming for vaccine demand creation in partnership with a design firm.
Lead activity, materials, tools development review & pilot testing in partnership with a design firm.
Establish & maintain effective working relationships with the Ministry of Health (MOH) at national & district levels.
Ensure SBC & demand creation activities are implemented in coordination & harmonization with MOH & other relevant platforms & documents at all levels.
Ensure timeliness & high integrity of activity implementation in accordance with the work plan.
Monitor, ensure all SBC, demand creation activities, any challenges are documented & reported on a regular basis.
Generate media briefs, reports, success stories & other program documentation.
Stay abreast of technical updates.
Maintain frequent, open, ongoing communication with program team members in all locations (country & headquarters offices).
Share new, creative ideas, embrace ambiguity, be optimistic & create innovations rooted in people’s actual needs to explore lots of different possibilities for prototypes & solutions.
Engage in the Risk Communication & Community Engagement (RCCE) technical working group to support COVID-19 activities.
Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Project reporting:
This role reports to the superviser.
Key competencies:
Master’s Degree in any of the following Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics Research Methods, Design, Communication or Behavioural Science with relevance to SBC programming, research, monitoring & evaluation or Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field with a minimum of 5 years’ experience public health, epidemiology, biostatistics research methods, design, communication or behavioural science.
Strong knowledge of MOH structures at national, district, & community level.
Experience with community engagement.
Previous experience of working for SBC / SBCC or health communication programs is an added advantage.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in SBC programming including message & material design.
Oral & written fluency in English.
Previous experience working in risk communication, especially COVID-19.
Have a strong grasp of research methods & data analysis, both quantitative & qualitative.
Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal, & collaboration skills.
Possession of excellent leadership skills to be used for consensus building & mentoring.
Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
Self starter that can work under minimum direction in a highly collaborative, team based environment.
Has a passion for problem solving & believing that all problems are solvable.
Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
Team management:
This role has no team management responsibility.
Further information:
Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply for this role.
How to apply
Candidates interested in applying for this role need to register on CTG website & apply for this role using the below link:
https://app.tayohr.io/jobs/detail/vac-6353-program-officer-sbc-covid-5072