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Job Title:   Social Behavioral Change Officer-DISC project

Organisation: Population Services International (PSI)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We are a diverse group of over 5,000 entrepreneurial development professionals located in over 40 countries committed to making it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire. PSI is using it’s global presence and 50+ years of experience to help reimagine healthcare. We are working to shape market systems, shift policy and funding, and strengthen global capacity to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

Job Summary:   The Oversee the implementation of the Sexual and Reproductive Health services including self-care service delivery prototypes and quality standards within the public and private health facilities.

Plan, supervise, implement, and report all Social Behavioral Change and Communications (SBCC) efforts to improve SRH services uptake in all districts of implementation.

Track and document event processes, results, and learnings to ensure data to action for adaptive implementation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of the demand creation /social behavioral change strategy to drive demand for SRH and FP services including DMPA-SC self-injection in the districts of operation. This shall include supportive supervision and capacity building for the Village Health Teams/VHTs, demand general focal persons and monitoring the effectiveness of the different referral channels.
• Map, plan, execute and report on all below the line activations within the implementation districts. This shall include collaborating with partners and demand generation focal persons supporting the various health facilities.
• Lead the implementation and adherence to the PSI quality assurance protocols at both public facilities resulting in improved quality of service to Sarah.
• Liaise with facility in charges, service delivery and demand generation focal persons to align activation schedules for efficiency and effectiveness based on a facility readiness checklist for selection and scheduling of the activations.
• Train health providers in DMPA-SC Self injection as well counselling for choice and building empathy for clients to support women to self-inject across the different delivery channels (public and private facilities) and mentorship on other FP methods for informed choice.
• Work closely with the district and health facility FP focal persons to plan, forecast, order and account for the FP commodities at private and public facilities.
• Leverage events to conduct support supervision/mentorship visits to service providers in these identified health facilities to ensure quality, informed choice and client safety during service provision.
• Establish and maintain strategic relations with DISC’s implementing partners at district level such as the district health management team, and relevant local partner organizations to support the implementation of activities.
• Support the planning and implementation of district/partner performance meetings with trained health providers/facilities to review evidence and learnings; and participate in coordinated and harmonized SRH interventions in the districts in line with project objectives.
• Monitor and utilize data to support the execution of events to improve productivity; and contribute to the documentation of key learnings and evidence that will add to the knowledge base on DMPA-SC for self-injection.
• Prepare and submit periodic activity progress reports (e.g. district, and internal review reports), learnings, and best practices on all SRH interventions and contribute to the documentation of evidence that will add to the knowledge base on SBC and FP service delivery.
• Prepare and submit monthly and annual work plans and budgets for the execution of all project activities in the implementation districts.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Diploma in Clinical Medicine, Nursing, or Midwifery OR Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health or Humanities, Business administration AND
• 3-5 years’ experience working in multi-method FP programming at health facility level.
• Sustained supply of commodities and SRH products in the participating facilities.

Others/Extra Details

• Participating facilities in the public sector successfully hold community engagement activities achieving the set reach objectives.
• Community engagement event schedules developed, executed, implemented, monitored, and tracked with regular reports documenting learnings and action plans for adaptive implementation.
• Consistent and accurate reporting from the below the line events held and daily FP service delivery and data analyzed for insights to aid adaptive implementation.
• Quality and client safety ensured service provision during the below the line events supported by an events service provision checklist.
• Increased productivity during the events providing self-injection of DMPA SC and other family planning methods based on data and learning.
• Active collaboration and networking with DISC’s implementing partners at district level, district health management team, and existence of functional referral system with the public sector for the private sector facilities.
• Sustained supply of commodities and SRH products in the participating facilities.

How to Apply:
Prospective candidates are kindly requested to complete the application form available at the link below and attach the following;

• Updated Curriculum Vitae
• Cover letter with inclusion of your salary expectation
• Certified academic documents

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Deadline: 31st January 2025

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