Program Assistant at Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION ignites collective action and encourages people to adopt healthier behavior - from using modern contraceptive methods and sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV and preventing the spread of zoonotic diseases - by forging, testing, and scaling up new and hybrid approaches to social and behavior change.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Program Assistant - Risk Communication & SBC

Location: Abuja

Background
Breakthrough Action Nigeria (BA-N) is a USAID funded Social Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication Project with the goal of increasing practice of priority individual and household level health behaviors in target states on MNCH+N, FP, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Firmly grounded in proven practices, Breakthrough ACTION works in partnership with governments, civil society, and communities around the world to implement creative and sustainable SBC programming, nurture SBC champions, mainstream new techniques, and technologies, and advocate strategic and sustained investment in SBC.

Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria will be working with ministries of health, agriculture, environment, and other key stakeholders to build country capacity to implement the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and accelerate Nigeria’s progress toward implementation of the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR).

Summary

• The Program Assistant - Risk Communication & SBC will provide technical, programmatic, and administrative support to the implementation of the BA-N GHSA project.
• She/he will assist national stakeholders in Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), and other GHSA implementing partners (in zoonotic diseases surveillance, emergency and pandemic preparedness and response, laboratory capacity building) to improve the risk communication capacity and address behaviors associated with high priority diseases.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
In addition to the general duties described above. Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Provide technical assistance to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and One Health stakeholders on multihazard risk communication and social behavior change activities including strategies, toolkits, communication materials, scripts, job aids;
• Provide technical assistance to the coordination of the activities of the national risk communication technical working group;
• Provide support to planning for programmatic research processes such as desk reviews, gaps assessment, and Human-Centered Design;
• Assist with the establishment and maintenance of effective relationships with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) and GHSA Implementing partners and other key stakeholders, with guidance from and in collaboration with the project technical lead;
• Monitor project events and stakeholder’s activities in coordination with project technical lead and capture lessons learned for adaptive management;
• Serve as a key liaison officer with other projects and units within the BA-N project;
• Collaborate with the program officer in the preparation/writing, submission, and editing of timely and quality activity reports, including field notes, and collaborate with relevant MDAs to ensure documentation of all program-related activities;
• Other duties as identified by the supervisor or project director.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of an HND / Bachelor's degree in Arts, Social Sciences or Health Sciences.
• 2 - 5 years’ experience working with donor-funded projects in related tasks. Experience of working on a USAID-funded project an advantage.
• Fair understanding of key components of  Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Social Behaviour Change is desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with adaptive ability.
• Well-organized, with the ability to track multiple activities and deadlines.
• Ability to travel and work within a cross-cultural, multi-sectoral, multi-project team-based environment.
• Working Knowledge of MS Office Packages and database software and applications.
• Program management experience is required for this role.
• Experience with providing assistance to ministries, departments, and agencies is an advantage.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter as one PDF document to: [email protected] using the "Job Title" as the subject of the email.

Note: Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Application Deadline  16th December, 2020.