Common place abstract
The Nawiri Social, Structural, & Behavioral Change (SSBC) Advisor for Diet will present strategic management within the design, improvement and execution of a coherent SSBC for Diet Resilience Technique that cuts throughout all areas of the challenge. Throughout the first section of Nawiri, he/she is going to be certain that this system’s analysis and studying agenda is designed and routinely iterated to construct a sturdy proof base to tell strategic investments to drive social, structural and behavioral change. It will embrace championing a focused seek for interventions that tackle social and structural determinants of persistent acute malnutrition which can be each amenable to alter and scalable, with specific consideration to figuring out alternatives to check modifications of current interventions or platforms. Working throughout all program areas and in shut collaboration with the educational and analysis groups, she/he’ll assist the Nawiri crew to routinely analyze rising outcomes of analysis and studying actions by way of a programs lens specializing in implications for dangers and alternatives associated to SSBC . The SSBC for Diet Resilience Advisor may even present technical assist throughout all of Nawiri’s strategic studying areas, which might be mirrored in Nawiri’s SSBC for Diet Resilience technique and strategy.
The SSBC Advisor will report on to the Deputy Chief of Occasion and supply strategic and technical steerage throughout this system, making certain groups work in concord to supply desired program outcomes. The SSBC for Diet Resilience Advisor could have dotted technical assist strains to SSBC workers and features embedded in county-level implementation groups.
Nawiri acknowledges that whereas biology and physiology are vital contributors to a person’s well being and diet, the social determinants that underlie human interplay—together with data, attitudes, social and cultural norms and conventions, and conduct—are important in shaping well being – and diet outcomes. on the particular person, household and neighborhood stage. These social determinants and their improvement are themselves influenced by the advanced interaction of structural elements, together with political and financial programs, tradition, battle and local weather change. According to our core mandate to grasp and tackle the advanced causality of persistent acute malnutrition, Nawiri elevates Social, Structural and Behavioral Change (SSBC) to a strategic stage, throughout any single sector, implementation crew or stakeholder group. This systemic hen’s-eye view is required to establish the important nodes or entry factors within the dynamic system the place built-in investments are more likely to generate the best influence in enabling susceptible teams to take larger management and enhance their diet resilience.
Important Job Capabilities
VISION AND STRATEGY
- Help the Deputy Chief of Occasion (DCoP) by offering imaginative and prescient and technique for this system strategy and the way the SBCC integrates into the general technical route and implementation.
- Set up robust, institutional linkages and keep productive collaboration with USAID, Authorities of Kenya, CRS Consortium, PREG Companions and different related companions in financial and market associated actions.
- Help in defining and analyzing Nawiri practices and priorities throughout all companions; establish alternatives for integration and synergies inside different sectors comparable to diet, well being, water programs and governance.
- Acknowledge alternatives for modern motion and create an atmosphere the place different views are welcomed; promote and mannequin a tradition of studying and adaptive administration.
- Make sure that cross-cutting facets of this system comparable to gender equality, social inclusion, youth, local weather adaptation and resilience are included and effectively built-in and reduce throughout all actions
- Collaborate with varied program parts, together with analysis, implementation, monitoring and analysis (M&E), and studying to drive the general effectiveness and coherence of this system technique from inception to scale-up.
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
- Lead in shut collaboration with all Nawiri stakeholders within the design, improvement, execution and iteration of a risk-informed SSBC technique for bettering diet resilience that’s evidence-based, tailor-made to native realities and aware of dangers and alternatives.
- Present SSBC technical management for Nawiri Consortium members and county companions, together with frequent journey to Samburu and Turkana to supply capability constructing and on-site technical help.
- Lead within the identification and improvement of modern approaches to alter attitudes, perceptions and practices round decision-making for well being and diet outcomes at a number of ranges and scales (e.g. people, HH, neighborhood, private and non-private establishments, and so forth.)
- Develop complete instruments for conduct change and SBC marketing campaign actions utilizing evidence-based theories and strategies in shut collaboration with exterior stakeholders.
- Help the design of community-level interventions concentrating on youngster caregivers, family and neighborhood decision-makers, farmers and neighborhood members at massive to extend demand for nutritious, various and secure diets.
- Present oversight of SBC actions applied by Nawiri companions.
- Handle the work of outdoor companies (analysis companies, promoting companies, PR specialists, manufacturing distributors, neighborhood mobilizers and/or consultants employed by this system) to help with SBC. This contains constructing the capability of native implementing companions to implement high quality and profitable SBC work.
- Make sure that SBC supplies are pre-tested, confirmed efficient and used successfully.
- Work with the Monitoring, Analysis and Studying Supervisor to measure and doc the progress and influence of SBC actions.
PROGRAM SUPPORT AND IMPLEMENTATION
- Present management and oversight within the improvement of risk-informed and shock-responsive SSBC instruments, supplies and communication channels.
- Present strategic, technical steerage and route to this system, making certain alignment with the newest technical info, proof and approaches within the SSBC subject;
- Oversee programmatic and technical facets associated to SSBC actions, making certain that SSBC efforts are evidence-based and coordinated and according to Nawiri’s objectives and ideas.
- Function “lead learner” (e.g. equal to “principal investigator” for analysis) in at the very least one in every of Nawiri’s strategic studying areas; present management and administration in all facets of the exercise.
- Help for the event of the analysis and studying agenda and actions; present strategic assist throughout all analysis and studying actions, together with by figuring out and performing on strategic alternatives to quickly take a look at and adapt modern approaches to handle social and structural determinants of persistent acute malnutrition
- Transferability of SSBC frameworks and approaches inside the consortium and throughout the bigger neighborhood of observe.
TEAM MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION
- Work intently with the Techniques Strengthening and Institutionalization Lead and crew to domesticate county leaders’ commitments to insurance policies and applications that assist diet resilience and promote change in social and structural situations that contribute to persistent acute malnutrition.
- Work intently with the Strategic Studying Result in drive the educational agenda in Nawiri and different companions in Turkana and Samburu and the broader neighborhood of observe
- Collaborate with different crew leaders to coordinate reporting to donor
- Signify Mercy Corps and Nawiri at strategic conferences, occasions and conferences.
- Develop case research and different merchandise to convey key program studying associated to SBC
- Contribute to the design and implementation of M&E actions, together with any baseline, endpoint or different actions associated to SBC.
- Help within the improvement of all program stories, work plans and budgets as required.
- In settlement with the Deputy Occasion Chief, undertake a consultant function in particular coordination boards. Talk successfully to make sure this system is precisely represented.
- Another activity as recognized in session with supervisor
Safety
- Work intently with the Nationwide Crew Security Focal Level to advertise and keep programs that promote the protection of all crew members. Make sure that the gender-specific wants and pursuits of program workers in relation to safety are recognized and responded to appropriately.
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
- As a part of our dedication to organizational studying and in assist of our understanding that studying organizations are more practical, environment friendly and related to the communities they serve, we count on all crew members to spend 5% of their time on studying actions that benefiting Mercy Corps in addition to themselves.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR PARTICIPANTS
- Mercy Corps crew members are anticipated to assist all efforts in direction of accountability, particularly to our beneficiaries and worldwide requirements that information worldwide reduction and improvement work, whereas actively participating beneficiary communities as equal companions within the design, monitoring and analysis of our subject initiatives.
- Crew members are anticipated to conduct themselves in knowledgeable method and respect native legal guidelines, customs and MC’s insurance policies, procedures and values always and in all areas within the nation.
Information and expertise
- A grasp’s diploma in behavioral or social science, public well being, social psychology, communication, advertising and marketing, well being communication, behavioral economics, or different related behavioral/social science subject or bachelor’s diploma with at the very least 7-10 years of further related expertise.
- Not less than 7-10 years of demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing SSBC actions, ideally in Northern Kenya. Demonstrated success in producing and executing modern and efficient social, structural and behavioral change options.
- Expertise utilizing a variety of SBC approaches, together with social advertising and marketing and nudges, or a willingness to study to make use of a variety of recent and modern SBC approaches.
- Information and understanding of native cultural practices, social networks and gender and age dynamics in Northern Kenya
- Expertise collaborating with county officers and leaders, constructing neighborhood capability and main neighborhood mobilization.
- Expertise constructing the capability of civil society and/or authorities entities in social and behavioral change.
- Demonstrated success in constructing and managing relationships with various donors and implementing companions.
- Means to ship high quality work inside deadlines and work independently and collaboratively with crew members
- Techniques thinker with robust analytical expertise; versatile and inventive in planning and drawback fixing
- Means and willingness to journey to the sector (Samburu and Turkana) at the very least 50% of the time.
- Skilled Fluency in English; Glorious oral and written communication expertise.
- Demonstrates endurance, diplomacy, persistence, compassion, willpower and a humorousness
- Glorious written and persuasive oral communication expertise in English are required.
- Means to journey to subject missions for 30-50% effort stage as wanted.
The way to apply
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