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Job Description
- Planning and Strategy: You will be responsible for developing SBCC and community engagement strategies aligned with the program's goals and objectives. This involves assessing the target audience, identifying key behavioral barriers, and designing interventions to address them effectively.
- Communication Campaigns: You will develop and implement communication campaigns to promote health-related behaviors and practices. This may involve creating messages, materials, and media campaigns tailored to the community's culture, language, and literacy levels. You will also collaborate with creative teams and media partners to ensure effective dissemination of information.
- Behavior Change Interventions: You will design and implement behavior change interventions using evidence-based approaches. This may include conducting formative research, developing behavior change models, and implementing interventions such as workshops, training sessions, or community events to promote positive health behaviors.
- Community Mobilization: You will engage with community members, leaders, and stakeholders to foster community ownership and participation in health promotion activities. This involves building relationships, establishing partnerships, and organizing community meetings to gather input, address concerns, and promote collaborative decision-making.
- Capacity Building: You will provide training and capacity-building support to community health workers, volunteers, and other stakeholders involved in the program. This may include training on effective communication techniques, behavior change theories, and facilitation skills to enhance their ability to engage with the community and promote health behavior change.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: You will monitor the progress and impact of the SBCC and community engagement activities, collecting data and conducting evaluations to assess the effectiveness of interventions. This information will help you refine strategies, measure behavior change outcomes, and make evidence-based recommendations for program improvement.
- Collaboration and Advocacy: You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, healthcare providers, and community-based organizations, to ensure coordination and alignment of health promotion efforts. Additionally, you may engage in advocacy activities to promote policy changes and create an enabling environment for positive health behavior change.
- Cultural Sensitivity and Tailoring: Ensure that health promotion activities are culturally sensitive and tailored to the community's beliefs, values, and practices. Adapt communication materials, messages, and strategies to resonate with the community's cultural context, language, and literacy levels.
- Communication Channels and Media: Utilize various communication channels and media platforms to reach the community effectively. This can include radio programs, community newsletters, social media, public announcements, and local media outlets. Ensure that the messaging is clear, engaging, and accessible to the community.
- Engage in conducting Baseline and end line Surveys: Conducting baseline surveys before implementing interventions and end line surveys after the completion of interventions can help assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors within the community. These surveys typically involve structured questionnaires or interviews administered to a representative sample of community members.
- Facilitate outreach services in collaboration with Woreda facilitators, Health facilities and other partners
- Initiate Family circle pilot program and CSC with government sector and volunteers
Job Requirements
- Minimum BSC degree in Public Health, social sciences, psychology and sociology or Diploma with more than 2 years related work experience
- Experience in NGO working environment will be an asset
- Ability to exercise sound judgment, to remain flexible to a changing environment, and to make decisions independently.
- Ability to work well within a cross-cultural team.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Fluency in English, Amharic and local language
- Basic Microsoft computer application skill
How to Apply
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Ethiopian Muslims Relief and Development Association (EMRDA) is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or ethnic origin, age and disability or status
It is our shared responsibility and obligation to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, Trafficking in Persons, Child Safeguarding and any suggested violation to our Code of Conduct, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment. If you see, hear or are made aware of any suggested activities then you have an obligation to report.
Applicants must write the location and position on subject line of email.
Interested applicants can submit their application credentials including CV and relevant documents for 7 days starting from 20/02/2024 through mail to the following address: EMRDA, P.O.Box 7515, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Email: emrdavacancy@gmail.com Tel No. 0113-48-24-63 or 0921019298
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