Behavior Change Communications Manager for Food Security Job Vacancy

Job Title: Behavior Change Communications Manager for Food Security

Company: Danya International, Inc

Closing date: 31 May 2011

Location: Uganda

REPORT TO: Regional Director
LOCATION: Uganda

SUMMARY SCOPE OF WORK:
The Behavior Change Communications Manager will provide technical leadership and implementation oversight for Danya’s evidenced based, food security behavior change communications initiatives in the country. The position will be responsible for providing technical assistance to USG agencies, USG partners, and GoU, designing and leading high impact communications strategies and implementations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership
- Provide strategic leadership and vision for the organization’s BCC program
- Ability to lead the behavior change communication technical approach across multiple projects
- Represent Danya before stakeholders and oversee implementation of activities throughout Uganda
- Contribute to annual work planning
- Establish and maintain a productive relationships with key stakeholders, including government officials, NGOs and community groups for smooth implementation
- Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure necessary program planning, development, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently

Management
- Work collaboratively with project and headquarters staff to assure proper financial projections, reporting, spending and compliance with project terms and conditions.
- Contribute to ensure projects meets set targets
- Promote and support the dissemination of best practices among the project teams
- Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results to the donor, including progress reports, and annual reports
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Agricultural or communications degree with post-graduate level training preferred
- A minimum of 6+ years of senior level experience in designing and implementing behavior change communications strategies
- Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to behavior change communications projects, with emphasis on US government funded food security programs in the region
- Excellent interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills
- Strong change management, results oriented and decision making skills
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
- Fluency in English
- Experience and understanding of the Feed the Future programming
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally

PREFERED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience developing successful, replicable and sustainable projects
- Expertise in research to practice – identifying best practices and adapting them to program realities
- Solid publication record in area of BCC
- A team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts

Danya International is an equal opportunity employer.

How to apply