AMREF Project Assistants – Hygiene and Behavior Change Jobs in Kenya
AMREF Project Assistants – Hygiene and Behavior Change Jobs in Kenya
Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest Africanbased international health development organization, currently implementing more than 120 programs, directly reaching more than 12 million people across 35 African countries.
Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa and
an additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices in Europe and North America. In the spirit
of Ubuntu, partnership and networking are key elements of our approach. Amref has a staff
complement of over 1,500.
Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To increase sustainable health access to communities in Africa through solutions in human
resources for health, health service delivery, and investments in health’.
Project Overview
With funding from FCDO and Unilever, Amref and its partners seek to implement the Hygiene and Behavior Change Coalition (HBCC) II project with a focus on improving hygiene, and increase vaccination uptake to prevent/contain any possible spread of COVID-19 variants in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It will leverage on hygiene and behavior change platforms and networks based on a three-pronged approach; mass media, digital hygiene behavior change, and interpersonal programs to propagate wide scale personal and environmental
hygiene improvement, incorporating vaccine uptake messaging.
The project responses will include strengthening of country capacities by working closely with government and institutions, systems change and advocacy for an enabling environment for sustained WASH, vaccination uptake and other key public/social measures for limiting COVID-19 spread.
Main Purpose of Job
The Project assistant will work closely with the Project Officer - Hygiene and Behavior Change, and Hygiene and Behavior Change Coalition project implementation team, to support the implementation of project interventions.
Under the guidance of the project officer, you are expected to liaise with respective government administrations, communities and the implementing partners regularly to ensure effective implementation of the project in line
with the global HBCC programme goals and national priorities.
Key Area Functions
Programme implementation
Work with the project officer to support hygiene behavior change promotion activities in 15
Hygiene and Behavior Change Coalition target counties to reach people, particularly at-risk
populations, at scale and through multiple channels with messages on hygiene, public health,
social measures and vaccination uptake to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Support in rapid scale up of mass media communication and digital hygiene behavior change
messaging, and provide timely recommendations for course corrections.
Engage county government administrations to map key geographies, target audiences and
devise strategies for wide scale dissemination of key messages.
Support assessment of community structures, local service providers, peer educators and social
mobilizers who can assist the incumbent to
implement behavior change communication interventions at scale among most at-risk populations.
Participate in support supervision activities individually and in collaboration with national and county Ministry of Health stakeholders
Capacity building Work with the project team to support in the development and adaptation of innovative and sustainable approaches for reaching most-at risk populations, utilizing evidence on hygiene and WASH programming, vaccine confidence, and regular learning from prior COVID-19 responses
and research.
Provide support in the implementation of Social Behavior Change Communication capacity
building interventions at county and national levels, and under the regional programme.
Knowledge Management and communication
Participate in designing and documentation of knowledge products including learning briefs,
research studies and case studies.
Support in liaison with knowledge sharing forums locally and internationally including COVID 19 Hygiene Hub and the COVID Action for regular learning and provide longer-term legacy in wider programming, policy and practice.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Work closely with the project team in provision of weekly updates highlighting potential
bottlenecks and lessons learnt.
Develop and share project activity and trip reports for internal reporting and consolidation for donor reporting
Support in sharing of learnings across the coalition and implementation counties to help with
up skilling and connecting organizations working in same geographies/interventions.
Required Qualifications
Education and knowledge
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences or any other relevant field with substantial experience in health promotion, particularly Hygiene Behavior Change Communication.
Previous experience in Behavior Change Communication is an added advantage.
Required Qualifications and Experience
At least Two (2) years of related professional experience in implementing community development or hygiene promotion projects.
Ability to build positive working relationships, characterized by mutual respect and professional courtesy with partners and project beneficiaries across cultural, linguistic and geographic boundaries.
Understanding of the global and national COVID-19 response priorities.
Skills and Competences
Ability to work rapidly, both in person and remotely, with team members.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail.
Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Strong analytical skills.
Polished presenter with ability to handle interactive sessions.
Excellent planning and organizing skills.
Demonstrated ability to build close working relationships with stakeholders.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; AMREF Project Assistants – Hygiene and Behavior Change Jobs in Kenya
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