Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For more than 45 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care and to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. We have been working within Botswana for over 10 years.
Position: Communication Specialist
The communication specialist will lead the development and implementation of communication, capacity building and demand creation for HIV prevention services such as PrEP, SMC and HIV self-testing supported by Jhpiego. The communication specialist will work closely with stakeholders at the national, district and facility level in planning and implementing demand creation activities.
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Responsibilities
- Lead demand creation strategy for SMC services, PrEP and other HIV prevention and apply human-centered design approaches to develop an understanding of key barriers and motivators of service uptake, as well as untapped opportunities to connect service to client aspirations
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop communication and demand creation plan
- Review and as necessary, modify the communication and demand creation strategy and site level demand creation plans inclusive of campaign themes and messages
- Provide on-site training/mentoring demand creation teams
- Collaborate with M&E team in developing tracking implementation of demand creation plans and effectiveness of different demand creation initiatives
- Collaborate with service delivery team in synchronizing demand creation activities
- Continually gather feedback from peer educators, mobilizers, linkage assistants and clients and review tools required for demand creation and mobilization to ensure they are responsive to client needs and changing dynamics
- Identify areas that may require advocacy and/or polky change to enable uptake of PrEP and SMC services
- Ensure practical use of financial resources and that demand creation activities are conducted in line with the workplan and available budget
- Support dissemination of learnings, best practices and new technical strategies both internally and externally including representing the project in professional circles
- Provide input into donor reporting, author and co-author presentations, abstracts, manuscripts, technical briefs and development of communication materials.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communication, public health or social sciences
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Botswana with a track record of generating tangible results in designing, implementing and assessing large scale health social and behaviour change communication programs in Botswana.
- Deep expertise in evidence-driven, theory-based, behavioural HIV prevention interventions.
- Familiarity with innovative interdisciplinary approaches such as human-centred design and behavioural economics for the increasing demand for and use of health products and services.
- Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal professional relationships.
- Good understanding of the USG funded programs
- Excellent communication, data analysis, presentation and writing skills
- Project management skills are an added advantage
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JOB APPLICATION DETAILS
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Interested candidates should enclose a covering letter, detailed CV and three current referee's details, (mobile and email addresses) closing date for submission is Wednesday, March 10th 2021. If you meet the requirements, please respond by email to: [email protected]
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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