Jhpiego Global Health Corps (GHC) Fellowship Careers – Knowledge Management, Communication and External Relations Officer

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Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Jhpiego
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: Monthly
Stipend of 550 dollars per month
About GHC:
Global Health
Corps pairs intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require
new thinking and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the
tools to remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their
ability to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We
currently place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States,
and Zambia.
About Jhpiego: 
Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The
Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has
worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families.Jhpiego works
with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality
health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries
care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening
health systems and improving delivery of care.Jhpiego designs innovative,
effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for
women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are
breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most
vulnerable populations.Jhpiego has worked off and on in Uganda for nearly 30
years. In 2011, Jhpiego made a strategic decision based on country needs and
interests from key stakeholders to establish a country office, with goal of
strengthening Jhpiego’s support to Uganda’s Ministry of Health. The fellows
will actively participate in this exciting endeavor. 
Job Summary: The Knowledge Management, Communication and External Relations fellows
will work closely with the Country Director and individual program managers to
ensure that the Jhpiego-Uganda program is capturing and communicating program
information effectively, using as many means as possible, to a wide range of
external audiences in Uganda. The fellows will work with the Country Director
to ensure regular and effective interpersonal engagements with key partners and
stakeholders; and active external relations efforts that target many different
groups, including partners at the community/district levels, decision makers in
Kampala, and interested international audiences. Finally, these fellows will
work with the Country Director to devise systems by which the external policy
and programmatic environment is being monitored, and findings from this
“environmental scanning” process are being incorporated into program planning
and implementation. As core members of a small team, these fellows will be
fully engaged in many aspects of program activity, and will have the
opportunity to contribute their ideas on how to improve programs to better
respond to the needs and interests of the external environment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
1. Strategy
Development:
  • Read and become familiar with Jhpiego Communications Manuel
  • Work with the Country Director and individual program managers to
    develop an overall program external relations strategy:
  • Assist define means for regularly compiling and presenting program
    information to key in-country stakeholders, using a variety of written,
    verbal and electronic approaches; and for tracking feedback received, so
    that it can be incorporated into program evolution
  • Help to define and implement a plan for ensuring that Jhpiego-Uganda
    is well represented at the many meetings taking place in the public health
    realm, and that Jhpiego is contributing effectively to the dialogue that
    takes place through these meetings
  • Help define a system for ensuring that Jhpiego is using these
    engagements as an opportunity to continually refine its understanding of
    the external environment in which it is operating, and to continually
    evolve its activities to respond to that environment
  • Work with the Country Director to develop effective knowledge
    management systems at the country level
2. Increasing
Program Sharing and Visibility in Uganda:
  • Lead implementation of all of the strategies above
  • Work with individual program managers to generate, document and
    share lessons learned from program activities
  • Develop a packet of compelling program information (and a system for
    ensuring that it is regularly updated), with an emphasis on presenting
    results of interventions and innovations, and lessons learned in the
    implementation process
  • Ensure that all information/communication coming out of the program
    is presented in such a way that it gives a clear and compelling 
    presentation, and reflects the innovation and effectiveness of the
    Jhpiego-Uganda program
  • Lead efforts to regularly share program information through multiple
    outlets (presentations, one-on-one meetings, comments at large meetings,
    written briefings, etc.)
  • Work with the Country Director and program managers to ensure that
    Jhpiego-Uganda is regularly engaging with, and providing the necessary
    program information to key partners and stakeholders through one-on-one
    interactions, and also through regular presence at meetings and other
    group forums
3. Contributing
to Jhpiego’s Global External Relations and Communications Efforts:
  • Coordinate and share in-country communications with Jhpiego’s 
    global External Relations and Communications office
  • Lead on ensuring that Jhpiego-Uganda is contributing fully to
    Jhpiego’s global efforts to tell the story of its great work
  • Lead the process of writing success stories, and defining high level
    program highlights that can be widely disseminated in Uganda, and globally
    through the External Relations and Communications (ERCO) team; submit
    photos, facebook posts and short updates to ERCO for global dissemination
  • Keep the Uganda portion of the Jhpiego website up-to-date
  • Perform any other reasonable duties as may be assigned by the
    supervisor or management
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The GHC fellow should ideally have experience with behavior change
    communication and community engagement
  • He or she should ideally have experience in communication for policy
    makers, donors and other implementing partners
  • Good working knowledge of the field of public health (either a
    degree that is related to public health, or experience working in a public
    health program); the ability to quickly understand both the theory and the
    practice of public health programming in a developing country is essential
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills; the ability to relate to a wide
    range of individuals, and to instill confidence and trust
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • The ability to quickly learn and to write and talk knowledgeably
    about new subjects
 Age: Below
30 Years
Job Terms and Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living
stipend of $550/month. Additionally, fellows will receive an award of
$1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from
the placement site and all other costs associated with GHC programming are
included, including $600 in professional development funds.
Note: The
living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency,
as determined by the placement organization.
How to Apply:
All applicants
who desire to be placed by the Global Health Corps in the aforementioned
organization should express interest by clearly following the instructions at
the web page below.
Deadline: 26th January, 2014

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