Behavior Change Communication Manager

Sunaulo Parivar Nepal (SPN) is a wellâ€established NGO delivering Family Planning and Sexual Reproductive Health services throughâ€out the country via centres, mobile outreach teams to remote areas and social marketing. It works in partnership with Marie Stopes International UK (MSI), a global social business providing reproductive health services across the world with a mission of ensuring individual's fundamental right to have children by choice not chance.

Support for International Health and Family Planning Organizations 2 (SIFPO2) is a cooperative agreement funded by USAID and implemented by Marie Stopes International Nepal/Sunaulo Parivar Nepal in 11 districts of Nepal: Sankhuwasava, Siraha, Rautahat, Chitwan, Dhading, Kaski, Parbat, Myagdi, Syangja, Rupandehi and Darchula from 2015 to 2019

The Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Manager will be responsible for ensuring operation of BCC interventions of SIFPO2 (Family Planning Service Strengthening Program). The BCC Manager will closely work with Chief of Party, Senior Project Manager, District Managers and others of the project and MSI/SPN’s Director-Marketing and Communications to plan and implement BCC interventions as guided by project Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) collaborating with USAID, government of Nepal and stakeholders nationally and at district level. The position requires frequent travel to monitor project activities.

Job Description:

• Review existing demand generation and BCC activities that work in family planning and develop BCC Plan in consultation with project team and USAID and make it compatible with project requirements.
• Lead the design, implementation and monitoring of DG and BCC activities of the project
• Ensure project monitoring, evaluation, research and reporting from districts capture DG and BCC components required to achieve project’s objectives
• Ensure project’s DG and BCC activities are compatible with USAID family planning compliance, rules/regulations and requirements.
• Develop formats to capture people reached for BCC and referred for FP counseling/services
• Facilitate district teams to prepare event reports of DG/BCC activities in the districts and ensure the timely reporting of DG/BCC activities from the districts
• Ensure that the records and reports of beneficiaries of DG/BCC are disaggregated by gender and MDAG population with high unmet needs as required for USAID standard
• Review the district reports of DG/BCC activities and provide quality feedback in time
• Coordinate with NHEICC upon design, implementation and monitoring of IEC and BCC interventions at national and district level.
• Coordinate with HC3 for linking demand generation and communication interventions of HC3 with service delivery of SIFPO in districts.
• Support District Managers, District BCC Coordinators and other district team members to maximize individual and team performance related to DG/BCC linking with service delivery.
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to the project areas regularly and provide onsite mentoring to the district team in making DG and BCC effective.
• Provide technical backstopping to district team members for a more effective implementation of DG/BCC activities and obtain expected result.

Job Specification:

• Master’s degree or post graduate in health communication, health promotion and health education, public health or other relevant subjects.
• Knowledge of USAID funded projects
• Knowledge of family planning related indicator
• At least 5 years of experience in public health, preferably related to family planning in designing, implementing and monitoring DG/IEC/BCC interventions of large scale projects, preferably funded by USAID
• Experience in community mobilization, media mobilization and training with an emphasis on participatory approaches

Please visit http://www.msinepal.org.np/index.php?option=cms&id=23 for detail Job descriptions for above positions. Suitable candidates meeting the above criteria are invited to send a CV and covering letter to recruitment@msinepal.org.np by 5 pm, 31 May 2016.  Only short listed candidates will be invited for the next stage of the recruitment process. SPN reserves the right to appoint no candidate or to appoint a candidate that does not fulfill all minimum criteria but has the best overall performance during the recruitment process. SPN reserves the right to appoint a lessâ€well qualified candidate at a lower grade. SPN reserves all rights to qualify/disqualify applications in any case. SPN accepts Nepalese citizens only and encourages women, people of ethnic minorities and Dalits to apply.