2 Social Behavior Change Officer (SBC Officer) USAID Non-profit Careers – John Snow, Inc (JSI)

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Organization: John
Snow, Inc (JSI)
Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Behavior
Change Communication Specialist
About US:
John Snow, Inc.
(JSI) is a leader in improving the health of individuals and communities by
providing high-quality technical and managerial assistance to public health
programs worldwide. JSI has implemented projects in 100 countries, and
currently operates from eight U.S. and 81 international offices for the past 30
years. The JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. ID a leading public
health research and consulting organization.
About USAID RHITES-N Project:
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 hard-to-reach and high-HIV-prevalence
locations. RHITES-N, Lango is a five-year contract. The JSI team includes Amref
Health Africa, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, Another Option, and Medical Concierge
Group.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Conduct post-training follow-up, mentoring and implementation
  • Monitoring and evaluation/ collecting data on SBC implementation
  • Coordinate with district health educators and other district health
    teams
  • Support in exposing and orienting district health educator to RHITES
    program
  • Help facilitate the linkage between the services and community
    programs
  • Work with local media and cultural and religious leaders to
    broadcast messages encouraging health seeking behaviors
  • Pretesting, and dissemination of IEC materials

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant for the Social Behavior Change Officers USAID RHITES-N
    Project job placement should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication,
    Journalism, Social work, community psychology
  • At least three to five years of experience
  • Experience working with the community-based organization
  • Working with international NGO
  • Any communication training e.g. counseling, SBCC etc
  • Knowledge of local language, district, and area
How to Apply:
All candidates
should send their updated cover letters and updated CVs
to ug-rhites-n@ug.jsi.com
Deadline: 21st September 2018
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