Program Officer I - Social & Behavior Change at Breakthrough Action / Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION / Nigeria is a new five-year, USAID-funded project. The goal of Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is to increase the practice of 17 priority individual and household level behaviors and five provider targeted behaviors in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition; family planning and reproductive health (RH); and tuberculosis, while increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming. Implementation will vary by health area across eleven states.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Program Officer I - Social & Behavior Change

Location: Abuja

Position Summary

• The SBC Officer will be responsible for ensuring mass and mid media plans are implemented at the state level and are integrated with community mobilization plans.
• S/he will work closely with the State Coordinator and the Social Mobilization Officer (SMO) to ensure an integrated approach to messaging.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Liaise with broadcasters in the state to ensure broadcast compliance of BA-Nigeria spots; inform national office immediately if a broadcaster deviates from the agreed plan.
• Maintain weekly and monthly monitoring report of all BA-N spots and programmes in radio and TV stations in state.
• Work with producers/broadcasters to keep track of locally produced content
• Provide ongoing technical support to local producers/broadcasters to ensure high quality content development and delivery.
• Identify new media opportunities for BA-N in the state;
• Contribute to the media planning process by providing guidance on channel selection
• Support media pretesting activities at the state-level
• Arrange and facilitate Listening Groups in the state in coordination with the SMO to collect feedback from target audiences on media programmes and report back to the national office.
• Coordinate mass and mid media activities with community mobilization activities through the SMO to ensure alignment where appropriate
• Provide support to programmatic research processes such as Human Centered Design and Behavior Economics at the state level.
• Represent Breakthrough ACTION at ACSM Subcommittee meetings and similar partner forums as required.
• Other duties as identified by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of an HND/Bachelor's degree in Arts, Social Sciences or Health Sciences.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience working with donor-funded projects related to radio/TV production
• Working Knowledge of MS Office Packages and database software and applications
• Well-organized, with ability to track multiple activities and deadlines
• Ability to work successfully in a cross-cultural, team-based environment

Application Closing Date
6th January, 2020.