Roles and Responsibilities

• Provides technical assistance in the development and implementation of community engagement and mobilization strategies to facilitate measurable behavior change in MNCH, malaria, FP/RH nutrition, WASH, and PHE.

• Ensure gender, youth, and social inclusion mainstreaming in all phases from formative research, through design, media and materials production, community mobilization and evaluation.

• Reviews deliverables of consortium partners in line with contracts and grant agreements, ensuring activities are conducted in a timely and efficient manner and incompliance with FHI 360 contractual agreements.

• Contributes to and develops detailed strategy write-ups, workplans, field reports, quarterly/annual reports, and any other reporting requirements.

• Liaises with and manages consortium partners involved in community mobilization and engagement activities.

• Contribute to and support the capacity strengthening of local partner organizations and GHS-HPD at regional and district levels through the development and implementation of capacity assessments, mentoring, training, and other capacity strengthening activities.

• Ensures regular data collection and reporting of community-level activities for project accountability and tracking of progress.

Qualifications and Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in public health, Communications, Community Development, or related field

• S/he must have 4-8 years of experience in implementing and managing large-scale international health/development programs, ideally within Ghana.

• Prior experience in community engagement and mobilization models and strategies and their practical application to malaria, MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, WASH, PHE, as well as gender, disability, and youth inclusion.

• Knowledge of evidence-based, innovative, and practical solutions to community mobilization in Ghana, experience working with district and community health structures in Ghana is preferred.

• Experience developing and implementing community engagement programs in Ghana, with a health focus, with demonstrated scope and impact at scale.

• Understanding of best practices in formative research, pretesting, and monitoring and evaluation methodologies for effective SBC and community mobilization interventions.

• Demonstrated strong technical (health, gender, disability inclusion, youth, SBC), programming, leadership, organizational, and management skills.

• Ability to manage tasks in a timely and efficient manner with minimal oversight.

• Demonstrated interpersonal communication and negotiation skills, as evidenced by prior work engaging communities, civic groups, churches/mosques, community groups, partners, donors, and NGOs to meet shared objectives.

• Ability to set priorities while multi-tasking and meet deadlines.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Language requirements:

excelled written/oral English communication skills and one or more local languages.