Organisation: Global
Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Jhpiego
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Salary: Monthly
Stipend of 550 dollars per month
Eligible Citizenship:
American
Global Health Corps pairs
intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require new thinking
and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the tools to
remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their ability
to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We currently
place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
Jhpiego is an international,
non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University.
For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the
needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts,
governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their
people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by
training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and
improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost
health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families.
These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to
high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Jhpiego
has worked off and on in Uganda for nearly 30 years. In 2011, Jhpiego made a
strategic decision based on country needs and interests from key stakeholders
to establish a country office, with the goal of strengthening Jhpiego’s support
to Uganda’s Ministry of Health. The fellows will actively participate in
developing this exciting endeavor.
Job Summary: The
Knowledge Management, Communication and External Relations fellows will work
closely with the Country Director and individual program managers to ensure
that the Jhpiego-Uganda program is capturing and communicating program
information effectively, using as many means as possible, to a wide range of
external audiences in Uganda. The fellows will work with the Country Director
to ensure regular and effective interpersonal engagements with key partners and
stakeholders; and active external relations efforts that target many different
groups, including partners at the community/district levels, decision makers in
Kampala, and interested international audiences. Finally, these fellows will
work with the Country Director to devise systems by which the external policy
and programmatic environment is being monitored, and findings from this
“environmental scanning” process are being incorporated into program planning
and implementation. As core members of a small team, these fellows will be
fully engaged in many aspects of program activity, and will have the
opportunity to contribute their ideas on how to improve programs to better
respond to the needs and interests of the external environment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Read
and become familiar with Jhpiego Communications Manual - Work
closely with the Country Director and individual program managers to
develop an overall program external relations strategy: - Support
to define means for regularly compiling and presenting program information
to key in-country stakeholders using a variety of written, verbal and
electronic approaches; and for tracking feedback received, so that it can
be incorporated into program evolution - Assist
in defining and implementing a plan for ensuring that Jhpiego-Uganda is
well represented at the many meetings taking place in the public health
realm, and that Jhpiego is contributing effectively to the dialogue that
takes place through these meetings - Help
define a system for ensuring that Jhpiego is using these engagements as an
opportunity to continually refine its understanding of the external
environment in which it is operating, and to continually evolve its
activities to respond to that environment - Work
with the Country Director to develop effective knowledge management
systems at the country level
2. Increasing Program Sharing
and Visibility in Uganda:
- Lead
implementation of all of the strategies above - Work
with individual program managers to generate, document and share lessons
learned from program activities - Develop
a packet of compelling program information (and a system for ensuring that
it is regularly updated), with an emphasis on presenting results of
interventions and innovations, and lessons learned in the implementation
process - Ensure
that all information/communication coming out of the program is presented
in such a way that it gives a clear and compelling presentation, and
reflects the innovation and effectiveness of the Jhpiego-Uganda program - Steer
efforts to regularly share program information through multiple outlets
(presentations, one-on-one meetings, comments at large meetings, written
briefings, etc.) - Work
with the Country Director and program managers to ensure that
Jhpiego-Uganda is regularly engaging with and providing the necessary
program information to key partners and stakeholders through one-on-one
interactions, and also through regular presence at meetings and other
group forums - Contributing
to Jhpiego’s Global External Relations and Communications Efforts: - Coordinate
and share in-country communications with Jhpiego’s global External Relations and
Communications office - Lead
on ensuring that Jhpiego-Uganda is contributing fully to Jhpiego’s global
efforts to tell the story of its great work - Steer
the process of writing success stories and defining high level program
highlights that can be widely disseminated in Uganda and globally through
the External Relations and Communications (ERCO) team; submit photos,
Facebook posts and short updates to ERCO for global dissemination - Keep
the Uganda portion of the Jhpiego website up-to-date
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Working
knowledge of the field of public health (either a degree that is related
to public health, or experience working in a public health program) - Possess
the ability to quickly understand both the theory and the practice of
public health programming in a developing country is essential - Exceptional
interpersonal skills; the ability to relate to a wide range of
individuals, and to instill confidence and trust - Excellent
written and verbal communication skills - Outstanding
presentation skills - Possess
the ability to quickly learn and to write and talk knowledgeably about new
subjects - One
of the fellows should ideally have experience with behavior change
communication and community engagement - One
of the fellows should ideally have experience in communication for policy
makers, donors and other implementing partners
Job Terms and Conditions: Fellows
will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living stipend of
$550/month. Additionally, fellows will receive an award of $1500 upon successful
completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from the placement site and
all other costs associated with GHC programming are included, including $600 in
professional development funds. Housing will be arranged in Kampala.
Note: The living
stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as
determined by the placement organization.
All applicants who desire to be
placed by the Global Health Corps in the aforementioned organization should
express interest by clearly following the instructions at the web page below.
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