Organization: Marie
Stopes
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Job Reference: REF004/02/2015
Marie Stopes International
exists to bring quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to the
world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We’ve been delivering family
planning, safe abortion, and maternal health services for over 35 years.
Millions of women worldwide turn to us for help each year, whether in limiting
the size of their families, or avoiding dangerous complications in pregnancy or
unsafe abortion.
Job Summary: The Head of
Communications will generally provide leadership and oversight for the
successful delivery high-impact and high-quality communications strategies that
increase informed demand for family planning (FP) across all MSI Uganda service
delivery channels.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that strategic
development and execution of community engagement strategies that leverage
constructive partnerships with other implementing partners, Government of
Uganda (GOU), stakeholders and community leaders:
- Ensure
effective performance management of communication teams and individuals to
meet MSI Uganda quality standards and agreed donor deliverables. - Management
of the performance all communications activities against budgets and
performance indicators - Timely,
accurate and complete reporting of verified communication activity results - Strategic
development and execution of community engagement strategies that leverage
constructive partnerships with other implementing partners, GOU,
stakeholders and community leaders - Responsible
for the development of a costed strategy and work plan with clear
deliverables for community engagement and promotion of outreach and
BlueStar services - Development
of performance management dashboards and metrics for mass media, community
and interpersonal communication activities - Ensure
collaboration with other teams to ensure promotional activities for
outreach and BlueStar providers is appropriately timed, delivered and
effective in raising community awareness of LTM Programme activities - In
charge of the development of IPC standard operating procedure with support
from MSI - Design
and implement effective referral tracking system - Actively
motivate team members to deliver high quality results, in time and to
budget - Identification
of long and medium term objectives to guide the development of community
engagement and identify opportunities for improvement and expansion - Examination
of MSI experience in other places for learning and ideas to improve
communications approaches, materials, and evaluation methods
2. Effective performance
management of communication teams and individuals to meet MSI Uganda quality
standards and agreed donor deliverables
- Ensure
that performance deliverables are set the Communications Team - Oversee
the performance through regular monitoring against and agreed dashboard
for all communication areas - Develop
key working relationships and new partnerships with other implementing
partners and community stakeholders to expand reach, impact and value for
money - Identify
and support teams to correct any quality, compliance, operational or
client care issues affecting communication activities to improve client
outcomes - Actively
support and deliver training to ensure consistency in the quality and
performance across all communications activities - Ensure
the appropriate distribution of vouchers through IPC - Ensure
timely, complete and accurate financial and programmatic reporting of all
activities - Ensure
activities are implemented to MSI standards, on time and to budget
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
Head of Communications should hold a relevant degree - Significant
experience developing effective behaviour change communication and
marketing strategies - Working
knowledge of behaviour change communication methodologies and effective
gender and youth approaches - Past
experience developing and implementing IPC programmes - Previous
experience managing large referral networks, including client and referral
tracking and tracing - Past
exposure and experience in effective media planning - Proven
ability to set targets and manage budgets effectively - Demonstrated
ability in facilitating capacity development of diverse teams deployed
across large geographies - Excellent
communicator to others on key strategic issues - Fluency
in more than one Ugandan language is desirable
All candidates who wish to join
Marie Stopes are strongly encouraged to send an updated CV and cover letter by
email to jobs@mariestopes.or.ug
NB:
Please do not attach transcripts
Deadline: Friday 13th March, 2015 by 5pm
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