The SPIR II Health and Nutrition Specialist will.  

35%:Support   learning and adaptation of SBCC strategies   and materials 

• Support strategic guidance to the SPIR-II SBCC   approaches and interventions.

• Support testing of new SBCC approach and communication channels and another learning process to refine SBCC strategies and intervention with the P- 1 -Team  

• Develop/ Adopt relevant SBCC Materials, Job Aids & tools, and pretest, feedback based on learning and experience from previous programming and/or R&I period pilots in close collaboration with technical staff and stakeholders.

• Refine SBCC materials and interventions that are inclusive and tailored to literate, semi-literate, and illiterate populations and appropriate communication channels.  

• Integrate relevant messaging into and manage the use of SBCC tools and materials across the project.

• Support the development of innovative new approaches to SBCC, including using Technology if needed. 

30%: Capacity building and Technical Support

• Coach and identify technical assistance need and guide/ consultants implementing partners to the development & implementation of SBCC interventions and materials.

• Conduct training for field program staff at Regional, Zonal/Woreda and Kebele levels.

on SBCC methodologies and their integration and application

• Facilitate capacity building interventions and cascaded training for GoE Ministry of Health counterparts at different administrative levels.

•  Support Regional Program staff to consistently provide high quality technical support and follow up   for the implementation of comprehensive SBCC strategies to support community engagement. 

10%: Partnership /coordination and collaboration

• Mapping and network with other relevant SBCC learning platforms to exchange ideas and learning from SPIR II research and experience.

• Work closely with technical staff, other BHA funded project. Gov’t and other stakeholder for SBCC Material harmonization

• Collaborate and exchange information with FMOH, other SBCC program experts and academic institution  

• Contribute to PSNP-5 program SBCC related dialogue and strategy and policy engagement with key stakeholders and partners

• Actively engaged in partnership with national & international SBCC technical forums and working groups/SBCC cluster that are relevant to SPIR-II .

15% : MEL support /Quality Assurance and routine monitoring

• Work closely with MEL team, identify and track key performance indicators and share the improvement area for respective management team and technical team for action

• Work closely with Technical Advisors &MEL team interventions on outcome mapping and tracking exercises to establish and track contribution of SBCC interventions to SPIR-II expected outcomes and document lessons learned, evaluate impact and modify SBCC approaches as needed

• Contribute for development of quality assurance monitoring processes and tools and identify capacity gaps, and improving delivering capacity of staff on SBCC interventions

• Provide Technical Guidance for Monitoring, Evaluation and learning team and other staff to design and carry out assessments and annual progress reviews and synthesize the findings for program improvement

10% : Knowledge Management

• In collaboration with technical advisors and gov’t partners, identify key challenges, best practices/ promising and new/innovative approaches to document, share, publish and position for scale up.

• Identify and network with other relevant SBCC learning platforms to exchange information/evidence, and share SPIR II learning and experiences.

• Document and share key SBCC learning with other RFSAs, Ethiopia-based researchers and other stakeholders.

• Support the review, synthesis and write-up of SBCC intervention results for quarterly and annual reports.

Job Requirements

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in designing and implementing social and behavior Change strategies on  integrated program (Nutrition ,Gender & food security interventions) and demonstrated expertise in Nutrition & SBCC donor-funded development programs

• Have 3-5 years of extensive experience in developing evidence based Health &Nutrition SBCC strategies and tools and working with   INGOs Academic and research institute

• Experience of USAID-funded programming (Food for Peace, or Feed the Future or others)

• Strong knowledge and skills on quantitative and qualitative operations research on behavioral change approaches and experience working closely with academic and/or other research institutions. and synthesis, of result and use in developing /refining SBCC strategies and tools

• Technical experience in Health & nutrition SBCC tool design, and review in three languages (English, Amharic and   Afaan oromo)

• Demonstrated field experience in story writing, documentation of promising practices  

• Technical trainings preferred: on  SBCC strategies and tool designing 

• Strong interpersonal, networking and facilitation skills.

• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.

• Health and Nutrition professional with an advanced (Master’s) degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field.

•  Maters Degree in Social Behavioral  science /Health promotion with minimum  experience working in integrated nutrition and food security program SBCC strategies

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Knowledge of community-based health interventions including , Community based Participatory Nutrition Promotion, Care Groups, dialogue-based counseling techniques to address nutrition during the 1000 window and positive deviance approach to improve complementary feeding are strongly preferred.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

Travel up to 50% of time. Physical Requirements

Language Requirements

 Fluent in writing and speaking of English, Amharic and Afan oromo

How to Apply

Register using the following LINK

Note: Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply