BCC Officer – Safe Motherhood
Functionally Responsible to: TUPADO Programme Coordinator
Technically Responsible to: Merlin Project Officer - Safe motherhood
Staff directly supervised: Social Mobilizers
Relationships internally: Midwives and other programme staff
Relationships externally: Governmental and non governmental counterparts, community members, Safe Motherhood Promoters (SMPs), etc
Overall Objective of the Position
The BCC Officer Maternal Health will be based in Lodwar and will oversee the development, planning, organisation, implementation and monitoring of all IEC/BCC activities for Safe Motherhood project, with technical support and direction from the Merlin Project Officer – Safe Motherhood, and working in close collaboration with district health authorities and partner non state actors to ensure efficient implementation of IEC/SBCC activities in Turkana Central, Loima and Turkana South districts.
Key Responsibilities
Merlin Kenya / Somalia Programme
P.O. Box 3350 – 00200,
Nairobi
Or via e- mail to: recruitment@merlin-eastafrica.org
Technically Responsible to: Merlin Project Officer - Safe motherhood
Staff directly supervised: Social Mobilizers
Relationships internally: Midwives and other programme staff
Relationships externally: Governmental and non governmental counterparts, community members, Safe Motherhood Promoters (SMPs), etc
Overall Objective of the Position
The BCC Officer Maternal Health will be based in Lodwar and will oversee the development, planning, organisation, implementation and monitoring of all IEC/BCC activities for Safe Motherhood project, with technical support and direction from the Merlin Project Officer – Safe Motherhood, and working in close collaboration with district health authorities and partner non state actors to ensure efficient implementation of IEC/SBCC activities in Turkana Central, Loima and Turkana South districts.
Key Responsibilities
- In liaison with key MOH counterparts, take the lead in development of and implementation of IEC/BCC strategies for Safe Motherhood as outlined in the project proposal.
- Develop and review IEC/BCC messages / materials in collaboration with other program staff, MoH and NGO counterparts and community representatives.
- Support development and review of relevant training materials and job aids.
- Develop BCC skills of MOH and other partner organisation staff.
- Organise and execute community IEC/BCC campaigns in collaboration with other program staff, MoH counterparts and community representatives.
- Design appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools for IEC/BCC activities in collaboration with other stakeholders
- Evaluate and document the impact of IEC/BCC activities in collaboration with other stakeholders.
- Participate in all partner/Merlin initiated as well as multi-stakeholders advocacy activities, forums and networks aimed at raising the profile of maternal and neonatal health issues in the agenda of government, partner NGOs and communities.
- Undertake regular documentation of activities including lessons learnt and success stories.
Community Outreach Support: Work together with Turkana Central MOH Outreach team to perform the following tasks:
- Conduct community mobilization, awareness and sensitization on safe motherhood and reproductive health.
- Conduct MCH health education
- Conduct health education sessions with care takers on good child feeding practices
- Draft reports on health education activities
- Document lessons learned in community mobilisation especially in relation MCH activities
- Support the Team Leader and other staff in organising regular meetings to obtain community feedback, complaints and responses on programme issues.
Other operational and Management Support
- Supervise and evaluate performance of Social Mobilisers in close liaison with other involved project partners.
- Participate in regular staff meetings as well as programme review and planning meetings.
- Participate actively in design of new projects and in preparation of project budgets and workplans
- Report any security incidents to the Logistics officer and Team Leader/PO/PC as appropriate
Any other duties assigned by the line manager or technical supervisor.
Person Specification
Qualifications, experience and competences
Person Specification
Qualifications, experience and competences
- Bachelors Degree or Diploma in Public Health; Social Sciences or Community health
- Over 3 years experience in implementing BCC activities on MCH and or RH
- Very good communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Training experience, mobilisation and community education skills
- Experience in development and design of IEC materials
- Ability to live and work in conditions of limited comfort
- Ability to write clear and concise reports
- Confident and proficient in the use of MS word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Knowledge of the local language is an added advantage
- An understanding of and commitment to Merlin’s mission and values
- Experience of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions
Merlin Kenya / Somalia Programme
P.O. Box 3350 – 00200,
Nairobi
Or via e- mail to: recruitment@merlin-eastafrica.org
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