Behaviour Change & Communication Specialist WAYREP Project Jobs – CARE International
Job Title: Behaviour Change & Communication Specialist
Organisation: CARE International
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.
About Project:
The Women and Youth Resilience Project (WAYREP) supports women and girls as well as young men in refugee, host and urban communities to realize their rights through socio-economic strengthening, resilience building and reduction of Gender Based Violence (GBV). It contributes to SDG 5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” with a focus on ending all forms of discrimination and violence against all women and girls. It is implemented in Arua and Gulu districts of Uganda, targeting urban community as well as refugee communities in Rhino- Omugo settlements as well as host communities for these refugee settlements
Job Summary: The Behaviour Change & Communication Specialist is responsible for providing technical support and leadership to the project on Information Education and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) and community engagement strategies, on the adaptation and roll out of the SASA!, the role Model Men & Boys (RMM&B) methodologies and mass sensitization campaigns on GBV, positive masculinity and women & girls ‘rights to a life free from violence and dignified livelihood. S/he also supports the Monitoring, Evaluation Action and Learning (MEAL) function as it relates to IEC & BCC and ensures lessons learnt and impact of above interventions during implementation are captured and disseminated to given audiences.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change and Communication (BCC)
- Develop a IEC & BCC and community engagement strategy for the project ensuring key themes that require increased knowledge and change of behavior are included: prevention of Gender Based Violence, accessing services for GBV survivors, ensuring women and girls have a right to a life free from violence and to access dignified economic opportunities, including the right to be financial included;
- Roll out SASA! BCC Methodology, including adaptation to project context and continuous monitoring and learning
- Roll out Role Model Men & Boys Methodology, including adaptation to project context and continuous monitoring and learning
- Work closely with other specialists to roll out women and girls socio economic empowerment and resilience building activities, ensuring key themes are echoed through WAYREP’s IEC and BCC strategy;
- Capacity building and technical support to implementing partners on IEC and BCC methodologies and approaches
- Support to local activism groups and linking them to local networks against GBV and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
- Cooperate with Gender and GBV specialist in promoting GBV prevention and support activities and services in the communities and in capacitating selected activists e.g. in helpful active listening and basic counseling skills
Mass sensitization
- Develop and disseminate information, education and communication (IEC) materials for the prevention of GBV, the promotion and protection of rights of women and girls to a life free from violence, the promotion of gender equality and a more positive image of masculinity and to promote resilience and economic empowerment of women and girls, with particular attention to BCC strategies that will reach refugees in settlements but also in towns and particularly young refugee and Uganda women and girls;
- Design awareness raising campaigns, in print, audiovisual, social media and radio, through community theatre, etc
- Liaise and maintain regular contact with media and ensure media plays a critical part in rolling out the IEC and BCC campaigns of the project;
Networking
- Representation of CARE Uganda and the programme in relevant forums of WAYREP and occasionally as agreed with the Program Director CARE Uganda
- Work in alliance with Civil Society Originations (CSOs), particularly with the women movement but also with women, youth and refugee led CSOs and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) on coordinating approaches to effective BCC strategies related to GBV;
- Liaise and collaborate with key CSO actors at local, national and international level on effective BCC related to GBV & resilience;
- Membership and participation in relevant CARE platforms and networks in coordination with CO Program Director and senior Program leadership;
- Contribute to the production of country office, regional and international learning and communication materials and messages, in close cooperation with the regional and Austrian advocacy colleagues
- Liaise and network with the media and support an investigative journalism approach when appropriate;
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) on IEC & BCC interventions
- Train implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation of IEC & BCC activities
- Review the M&E systems/IEC/BCC indicators and support team to monitor the quality and impact of the implementation of EC and BCC activities ensuring data is tracked by age, gender, origin, livelihood group, rural versus urban etc);
- Active contribution and participation in knowledge management processes and products, under the leadership / co-coordinated by the Project Manager, MEAL Specialist and CARE Austria.
- Generate and document lessons learnt and knowledge on all BCC activities, including development, dissemination and presentation of knowledge products
- Communicate effectively with local partners and beneficiaries to monitor implementation, identify relevant issues informed by the reality of GBV and context specific forms of GBV that are happening in the settlements and in the urban settings, identify / anticipate emerging and / or unanticipated risks and addressing these accordingly in liaison with team members, CARE Uganda and CARE Austria
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for this placement must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (social studies, humanitarian and / or development studies, gender studies, etc); Masters degree preferred;
- Advanced technical knowledge and at least 5 years of hands on proven practical professional experience in designing and implementing large scale IEC and BCC campaigns in relevant themes (GBV prevention and response, women and girls economic empowerment, men engagement strategies) and with highly vulnerable populations (preferably having prior experience with refugees and youth);
- Experience in capacity building and technical advice to partners related to IEC & BCC;
- Unshakable commitment to gender equality and clear understanding of GED
- Experience working with large, cross cultural teams with multiple deliverables.
- Excellent team work, networking, communication and collaboration skills
- Experience/ knowledge of international development and humanitarian work, preferably in Uganda and with displaced populations;
- Ability to network, build relationships and establish collaboration with different partners, agencies local and international networks.
- Ability to link with community activists and social movements and experience/ understanding of the SASA and Role Model Men and Boys methodology
- Prior experience with IEC and BCC campaigns in the urban context preferred;
- Strong inter-personal communication and facilitation skills;
- Knowledge of basic M and E, as relevant to the job portfolio and strong skills in report writing, documentation and presentation.
- Experience with social media, digital media highly desired
- Knowledge of some of the languages used in the participating districts are considered an added value
How to Apply:
Candidates who are interested in the above jobs should submit an updated CV and Application letter giving a day time telephone contact and names, telephone contacts and email addresses of 3 (three) work related referees only through our recruitment email: ugarecruitment@care.org clearly indicating the job title in the email subject.
NB: Please note that when you are successful for the above position, CARE will need verified copies of your academic documents.
Deadline: 23rd August 2019
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