USAID Project Behavior Change Advisor Career Placement - FHI 360

Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development

(USAID)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Senior Technical Advisor

FHI

360 is a leading global development organization dedicated to improving lives

around the world. Our professional staff includes experts in education, health,

nutrition, economic development, civil society and environment as well as

cross-cutting experts in gender issues, research, applied science, behavior

change and Technology giving us the unique mix of capabilities to address

today’s diverse and interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 operates from

60 offices with 4,400 staff in the U.S. and around the world.

Job Summary: The Behavior Change Advisor will support an anticipated

USAID-funded WASH opportunity in Uganda. The Behavior Change Advisor will be

responsible for overseeing behavior change/demand creation activities for the

initiative. S/he will be expected to design high quality project interventions

and assessments. The incumbent will be expected to build local capacity of

selected entities behavior change programming.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Provide leadership for the project to expand
  
  key hygiene behaviors at home, school, and health facilities.


• Provide strategic, technical, and managerial
  
  guidance to the project for behavior change, including leveraging the
  
  private sector to support behavior change


• The jobholder will develop a strategy based
  
  upon experience, literature review and formative research to address key
  
  hygiene behaviors


• Provide leadership in collaboration with
  
  other USG partners to implement or strengthen coordinated district-wide
  
  behavior change campaigns that target key hygiene behaviors


• Design formative research that focuses on
  
  barriers and motivators for key hygiene behaviors


• Contribute to capacity-building activities
  
  with project staff and selected local entities (e.g. market assessments,
  
  impact evaluations, formative research surveys, behavior change
  
  interventions)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  

• The ideal candidate for the USAID Project FHI
  
  360 Behavior Change Advisor career opportunity should hold a Master’s
  
  degree in Psychology, Communication, Marketing, Business, Economics, or
  
  related field, or a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of five years of
  
  additional relevant experience (for a total of 10 years of minimum
  
  experience when also considering below bullet which requires 5 years)


• At least five years of demonstrated success
  
  in generating innovative and effective behavior change or marketing
  
  solutions, preferably in Uganda;


• Previous exposure and experience working on
  
  water, sanitation, and hygiene activities a plus, but not required


• Working knowledge and implementation of
  
  behavior change theory


• Knowledge and implementation of behavioral
  
  economics theory is highly desirable


• Creativity and entrepreneurial outlook

All

candidates who wish to join the USAID FHI360 project in the aforementioned

capacity are encouraged to apply online at the web link below.