Anthropologist/Behavior Change/ Marketing Specialist Job at John Snow, Inc. (JSI) - Career Opportunity in Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 04, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
John Snow, Inc. (JSI), a leader in the field of international public health, and is currently recruiting for Anthropologist Behavior Change/Marketing Specialist for the Regional Health integration to Enhance Services-North, Lango (RHITES-N, Lango) Project, funded by the USAID. RHITES-N, Lango to improve the use of integrated health services in Northern Uganda’s Lango region and strengthen the health system to sustain gains made by earlier projects. RHITES-N, Lango will contribute to improving key population-based national health indicators; build the capacity of the Ugandan government to carry out a sustainable and locally-driven response to the HIV epidemic, while also improving TB, malaria, nutrition, MNCH+A, and WASH outcomes. JSI will work with Ugandan stakeholders to design and implement health system strengthening strategies to scale up high-impact, evidence-based interventions at the national, sub- regional, district, and community levels. Interventions will include VMMC, virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and condom education and distribution. JSI will focus where the greatest impact can be realized, with a priority on hi to-reach and high-HIV-prevalence locations.
RHITES-N, Lango is a five-year contract which Started in February 2018 and will end in February 2023. The JSI team includes Amref Health Africa, Africa CUAMM, Another Option, and Medical Concierge Group
Job Title: Anthropologist/Behavior Change/ Marketing Specialist
Report to: Chief of Party (COP)
Location: Lira District, Uganda
Contract Terms: Fixed Term
JOB SUMMARY:
The Anthropologist/Behavior Change/ Marketing Specialist will work principally to develop and implement social and behavior change strategies, provide technical guidance to grantees, and ensure a conducive and collaborative working relationship within the team and consortium partners. S/he will work to functionalize the social and behavior change strategy and collaborate with the community team to roll out the community engagement strategy for the RNL project. S/he will supervise the SBC Officers, Community and Youth Mobilizations Advisor, Digital Health Advisor and Gender Officer..

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Implementation of an integrated SBC strategy to support: HIV, TB, malaria, maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, reproductive health and family planning, and gender.
• Contribute to the district-led implementation and system strengthening strategy to promote institutional integration of SBC.
• Support the development of tools and job aids (training modules and conversation cards) to promote interpersonal communication and promotion of behavior change among the community agents and health providers.
• Support development and rollout of gender transformational approaches for GBV prevention, case identification, and post-violence care.
• Responses included: IPC for providers and CHWs, community engagement, capacity strengthening of gatekeepers, addressing gender norms in the community.
• support to faith-based institutions, cultural institutions & CSOs in developing and implementing norm change intervention to address teenage pregnancies and early marriages.
• Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director to develop a community health monitoring, evaluation and learning plan and oversee the implementation of the plan.
• Contribute to the identification and scaling-up of best practices in behavior change interventions.
• Participate in the documentation and dissemination of project activities.
• Provide strategic, technical, and managerial guidance to the project.
• Oversee activities that address key demand side behaviors related to expanding health options.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership in the development and rapid implementation of a program-wide BCC strategy, assuring the effective integration of the behavior change component into all aspects of the technical component of the project.
• Provide technical support and guidance to project staff and partners at all levels, on established good practices as well as cutting-edge ideas, tools and approaches for behavior change interventions.
• Contribute to the identification and scaling-up of best practices in behavior change interventions.
• Participate in the documentation and dissemination of project activities; and
• Supervise SBCC unit staff.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications
• Master's degree in Anthropology, Psychology, Communication, Marketing, Business, Economics, or related field, OR a Bachelor's degree with at least
• 5 years of additional relevant experience (in addition to the below requirement of 5 years);
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated success in generating innovative and effective demand generation or marketing solutions, preferably in Uganda;
• Experience working in public health a plus, but not required;
• Knowledge and implementation of behavior change theory;
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, supervisory, communications and mentoring skills.

Job Education Requirements: Master's degree

Job Experience Requirements: 5 years

Job Skills: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, must go to the JSI website to apply. Here's the link:   not later than January 15, 2021. JSI is an equal opportunity employer so women are encouraged to apply.