Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Specialist(Malaria Consortium)- Career opportunity in Uganda

Job Title:Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Specialist-
Project:Visceral Leishmaniasis Project
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Location:Kampala,Uganda
Deadline: 27 Oct 2013
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.

Malaria Consortium is bidding on a large multi-million-pound, multi-country project focused on strengthening the surveillance, control and treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected tropical disease. Malaria Consortium will lead a consortium of national and international partners to implement this project in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

Malaria Consortium is looking to select, and if successful at bid stage, recruit, a BCC Specialist. The post will be based in Malaria Consortium’s Africa Regional Office in Kampala, Uganda, with significant international travel to country offices and project sites.

The post holder will provide technical leadership in behaviour change communication for this multi-country, high profile, high value project, working closely with host country governments and other partners.

The successful candidate will have:
 • Advanced degree in development, communications, media, broadcasting, public health, social sciences or other relevant fields
 • Understanding and familiarity with development communications issues and solutions, particularly in public health
 • Experience of public health BCC related to case finding and demand creation
• Excellent writing, reporting and and presentation skills
• Highly organized and able to work successfully in a team that is geographically dispersed.
 • Familiarity with public health principles
 • Understanding of Aid effectiveness and utilisation of the principles in project design and implementation
• Project management and planning skills
• Able to delegate efficiently and technically support teams with no direct line management responsibility over them
• Strong skills in negotiating with and engaging Ministry of Health Officials
 
How to apply:
 For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job description. Please send a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application.

We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.

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