Duty Station: Nairobi Regional Office, Kenya Contract Type: Long Term Staff (FT) Application Deadline: 10 April 2013
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF, as the lead agency for communication and social mobilization for Routine Immunization and New Vaccine Introduction per the global GAVI Business Plan 2013-14, is increasing its capacity in order to better coordinate technical assistance with Country Offices (CO) and partners, especially in specific priority countries. This enhanced capacity and improved coordination is necessary to provide Communication for Development (C4D) technical support to countries and regions with low immunization coverage rates, issues with coverage equity, and high risk of outbreaks of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs).
Key Responsibilities Under the general guidance of the Regional Chief of Communication, key responsibilities include: 1. Assist Country Office teams in every step of evidence-based communication and social mobilization planning, implementation and monitoring. 2. Undertake field visits (including joint HQ-RO field visits) to address CO needs related to C4D and immunization and to monitor and evaluate implementation of programme activities, with a special focus on ensuring equity and effective strategies to reach children of underserved populations.
3. Identify and documents constraints and opportunities relevant to reaching underserved populations and suggests solutions to relevant counterparts to improve programme delivery. 4. Develop, collect, adapt, organize, design and help implement effective training materials to build capacity at COs and among EPI partners in all aspects of evidence-based communication and social mobilization for routine immunization and other child survival interventions. 5. Systematically capture findings, experiences, lessons learned, best practices, new templates and tools, and innovative methods/approaches for adaptation for a range of applications, including case material for training modules and preparation of donor reports.
6. Prepare periodic progress reports for sharing with programme staff at headquarters, regional offices, and country offices, as well as donors and partners.
7. Ensure budget are properly planned, monitored, and controlled such that funds are allocated appropriately and optimally at each stage of planning and implementation.
3. Identify and documents constraints and opportunities relevant to reaching underserved populations and suggests solutions to relevant counterparts to improve programme delivery. 4. Develop, collect, adapt, organize, design and help implement effective training materials to build capacity at COs and among EPI partners in all aspects of evidence-based communication and social mobilization for routine immunization and other child survival interventions. 5. Systematically capture findings, experiences, lessons learned, best practices, new templates and tools, and innovative methods/approaches for adaptation for a range of applications, including case material for training modules and preparation of donor reports.
6. Prepare periodic progress reports for sharing with programme staff at headquarters, regional offices, and country offices, as well as donors and partners.
7. Ensure budget are properly planned, monitored, and controlled such that funds are allocated appropriately and optimally at each stage of planning and implementation.
Qualifications 1. Advanced university degree in the social/behavioural sciences, (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Health Education) with emphasis on strategic communication planning for behaviour development, social mobilization, participatory communication, and research. A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. 2. Minimum eight years of relevant work experience in the development, planning and management of social development programmes, including several years in developing countries, with practical experience in the adaptation and application of communication planning processes to specific programmes. 3. Fluency in English and another UN language.
How to apply:
To Apply Please go to http://bit.ly/YTPZ3e or visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our e-Recruitment system, and search using keyword “communication” for additional details/to apply before deadline.
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