Deadline: 30 July 2010
Established in 1915 with Helen Keller as a founding trustee, Helen Keller International (HKI) works to save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Headquartered in New York City, HKI currently conducts programs in 21 countries in Africa and Asia as well as in the United States. HKI is known for sustainability, reliability, efficiency and the highest level of technical expertise in fighting and treating blindness and malnutrition. To accomplish its work, HKI builds the capacity of local governmental, civil society and private sector systems and infrastructure, and promotes the development of sustained, large-scale programs that deliver effective preventative and curative eye health and nutrition services. The hallmark of the organization’s work is its proven effectiveness in developing, testing and scaling-up health interventions, and integrating them within government and community structures. HKI works with partners around the world to help meet key provisions of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), selected by all 191 United Nations member states, as well as VISION2020, The Right to Sight. HKI/Zimbabwe invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to be considered for employment for the following position:
1) Behavior Change Communication Officer
The Behavior Change Communication Officer will work in partnership with officials from the Protracted Relief Programme II as part of the Mainstreaming Nutrition Programme. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Organize and facilitate workshops to review current nutrition strategies and objectives with partners and stakeholders in the Protracted Relief Programme.
- Lead the development of BCC strategy with partners based on low-cost, high-impact essential nutrition actions (ENA) approach · Design training curriculum for BCC strategy including design and development of BCC messages and activities.
- Oversee the development and production of communication materials including IEC Materials, training manuals and electronic media materials.
- Organize and facilitate trainings of national and district level partners and provide supportive supervision of trainings at ward and community level. Build capacity amongst partners to implement the BCC strategy with an emphasis on developing interactive communication skills
- Facilitate and ensure all communication materials are pre-tested for relevance and are appropriate to targeted communities.
- Other responsibilities include: contribute to the preparation of annual reports, country program profiles, periodic progress reports, donor progress reports, program statistics, and other materials that may be required.
The ideal candidate should meet the following:
- Advanced Degree required with preference given to the following areas: Behavior Change Communication, Health Education/Behavior Science.
- Minimum 5 years working experience in an NGO/Health management environment.
- A strong background in change theories and models.
- In-depth knowledge of the full range of social marketing communications.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills.
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal methods.
- Ability to travel frequently and work with multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication and team building skills.
- Computer proficiency (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point).
Terms of Employment: One year contract renewal upon mutual agreement.
2) Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work in partnership with officials from the Protracted Relief Programme II as part of the Mainstreaming Nutrition Programme. The programme will integrate nutritional behaviour change actions to enhance the impact of current PRP actions in social protection, livelihoods and water sanitation. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Liaise with partners to review current nutrition indicators in existing monitoring systems and collaborate with partners to identify their M&E related needs for nutrition.
- Assess partners M&E staff capacities to implement M&E activities and develop appropriate modules to address the identified needs.
- Design methodology, tools as well as systems for program performance data collection, consolidation, analysis, and reporting.
- Contribute to programme design and ensure rigorous logic between activities, outputs, results and indicators.
- Provide support to the HKI Country Director in developing performance indicators, M&E plans and detailed implementation plans for the Mainstreaming Nutrition Programme.
- Organize and facilitate trainings of national and district level partners for the collection of nutrition performance indicators and use of monitoring data.
- Ensure that monitoring visits are conducted with appropriate tools, data is of high quality and that captured data is feed into management decisions.
- Establish an effective and fluent learning system by sharing lessons learned and M&E findings among partners.
- Develop good working relations with partners to ensure that M&E of nutrition indicators remains a high priority in their allocations of resources.
- Other responsibilities include: contribute to the preparation of annual reports, country program profiles, periodic progress reports, donor progress reports, program statistics, and other materials that may be required.
The ideal candidate should meet the following:
- Advanced degree required with preference given to the following areas: public health, community development, or nutrition
- At least five years experience of progressive responsibility in nutrition or development programs, including significant time in a M&E capacity
- Thorough familiarity with principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation of nutrition or development programs using both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing M&E systems, including performance tracking, impact evaluations and broad-spectrum surveys
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal methods
- Ability to travel frequently and work with multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication and team building skills
- Strong computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, SPSS)
Terms of Employment: One year contract renewal upon mutual agreement.
3) Nutrition Program Officer
The Nutrition Program Officer will work in partnership with officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, UNICEF and others to support all aspects of the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program and other HKI supported nutrition programmes. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Liaising with partners and the MOHCW in determining overall nutrition programme priorities and areas for action.
- Coordinate relationship with partners as the HKI point of contact for nutrition programme activities.
- Participate, organize and facilitate working groups and meetings as HKI’s nutrition representative.
- Support nutrition programme planning, design, and implementation including coordinating and conducting formative research and coordinating with partners.
- Coordinate with HKI M&E officer and partner staff to ensure nutrition programme monitoring and activity tracking is of high quality and conducted at a timely manner.
- Support the HKI Zimbabwe team to develop a country plan of action and assist in the identification of potential partners for expanding HKI’s mission.
- Review and participate in the development and production of nutrition related materials including: IEC Materials, training manuals and electronic media materials.
- Other responsibilities include: contribute to the preparation of annual reports, country program profiles, periodic progress reports, donor progress reports, program statistics, and other materials that may be required.
Qualifications:
- Advanced Degree required with preference given to the following areas: Nutrition or Public Health · Previous experience working with design, implementation and management of nutrition or community health programs
- Minimum 5 years working experience in an NGO/Health management environment
- In-depth knowledge of the IYCN and maternal nutrition programming
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal methods
- Ability to travel frequently and work with multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication and team building skills
- Computer proficiency (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point)
Terms of Employment: One year contract renewal upon mutual agreement.
4) Two (2) Consultants: Qualitative Research
The Qualitative Research Consultant(s) will work in cooperation with HKI Staff, MOCHW and Vitamin A Supplementation Stakeholders in designing, training and implementing the formative research and qualitative analysis of Hard to Reach Populations in the Vitamin A Supplementation Campaigns. The consultancy will be for a period of 5 months. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
Scope Of Work
- Finalize development of tools, translate, pretest and modify as necessary (including key informant interviews, focus group scripts and mapping methodology)
- Recruit, train and supervise government enumerators
- Organize, plan and conduct stakeholder meetings at National level with HKI team
- Organize, plan and conduct national, provincial, and district level semi-unstructured interviews with Government and Stakeholder staff and directly supervise government enumerators for data collection
- Organize, plan and conduct village level semi-structured interviews with key village leaders, religious leaders, and households
- Enter and clean data and conduct data analysis using data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification methods, familiarity with Anthropac or Ethnograph is preferred
- Develop a report and presentation on findings of the qualitative research to be disseminated to MoH personnel, policy makers, donor agencies, UN agencies, and NGO’s (national, local and international) involved in nutrition
- Develop recommendations for targeted strategies and messages to reach the hard to reach communities
- Hold periodic meetings and assure timely communication updates to HKI management and technical staff throughout the assignment period.
Qualifications
- Advanced Degree required with preference given to the following areas: Public Health, Epidemiology
- Previous experience working with community based programs
- A strong background in qualitative data collection and analysis with strong quantitative and qualitative research skills
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal methods
- Ability to travel frequently and work with multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication and team building skills
- Computer proficiency (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point)
Terms of Employment: Five-month contract.
Salary: Helen Keller International offers a competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Please send letter of application, including curriculum vitae, name and email contacts of three references to jblankenship@hki.org
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
HKI is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified women, minorities and disabled candidates Women are strongly encouraged to apply. HKI maintains a smoke-free work environment.
