About MSI:
Marie Stopes International exists to bring quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We’ve been delivering family planning, safe abortion, and maternal health services for over 35 years. Millions of women worldwide turn to us for help each year, whether in limiting the size of their families, or avoiding dangerous complications in pregnancy or unsafe abortion.
Job Summary: The Head of Communications will generally provide leadership and oversight for the successful delivery high-impact and high-quality communications strategies that increase informed demand for family planning (FP) across all MSI Uganda service delivery channels.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that strategic development and execution of community engagement strategies that leverage constructive partnerships with other implementing partners, Government of Uganda (GOU), stakeholders and community leaders:
Ensure effective performance management of communication teams and individuals to meet MSI Uganda quality standards and agreed donor deliverables.
Management of the performance all communications activities against budgets and performance indicators
Timely, accurate and complete reporting of verified communication activity results
Strategic development and execution of community engagement strategies that leverage constructive partnerships with other implementing partners, GOU, stakeholders and community leaders
Responsible for the development of a costed strategy and work plan with clear deliverables for community engagement and promotion of outreach and BlueStar services
Development of performance management dashboards and metrics for mass media, community and interpersonal communication activities
Ensure collaboration with other teams to ensure promotional activities for outreach and BlueStar providers is appropriately timed, delivered and effective in raising community awareness of LTM Programme activities
In charge of the development of IPC standard operating procedure with support from MSI
Design and implement effective referral tracking system
Actively motivate team members to deliver high quality results, in time and to budget
Identification of long and medium term objectives to guide the development of community engagement and identify opportunities for improvement and expansion
Examination of MSI experience in other places for learning and ideas to improve communications approaches, materials, and evaluation methods
2. Effective performance management of communication teams and individuals to meet MSI Uganda quality standards and agreed donor deliverables
Ensure that performance deliverables are set the Communications Team
Oversee the performance through regular monitoring against and agreed dashboard for all communication areas
Develop key working relationships and new partnerships with other implementing partners and community stakeholders to expand reach, impact and value for money
Identify and support teams to correct any quality, compliance, operational or client care issues affecting communication activities to improve client outcomes
Actively support and deliver training to ensure consistency in the quality and performance across all communications activities
Ensure the appropriate distribution of vouchers through IPC
Ensure timely, complete and accurate financial and programmatic reporting of all activities
Ensure activities are implemented to MSI standards, on time and to budget
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The Head of Communications should hold a relevant degree
Significant experience developing effective behaviour change communication and marketing strategies
Working knowledge of behaviour change communication methodologies and effective gender and youth approaches
Past experience developing and implementing IPC programmes
Previous experience managing large referral networks, including client and referral tracking and tracing
Past exposure and experience in effective media planning
Proven ability to set targets and manage budgets effectively
Demonstrated ability in facilitating capacity development of diverse teams deployed across large geographies
Excellent communicator to others on key strategic issues
Fluency in more than one Ugandan language is desirable
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join Marie Stopes are strongly encouraged to send an updated CV and cover letter by email to jobs@mariestopes.or.ug
Deadline: Friday 13th March, 2015 by 5pm