IPC Team Lead

The Interpersonal Communications Lead (Gender Based Violence) will be supporting the Love Shouldn’t Hurt program.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates the activities of community health workers in implementing wards.
• Drives all project interpersonal communication (IPC) activities at community level.
• Plans and conduct community dialogues and roadshows.
• Facilitates the formation and operation of support groups for perpetrators and community leaders.
• Facilitates and coordinates the implementation and sustenance of the PSH economic models in implementing districts.
• Facilitates referrals and linkage of perpetrators and survivors for SRHR, GBV HIV and drug and substance use support services.
• Ensures ongoing community engagement with key stakeholders, influencers, and gatekeepers.
• Assists in the development & roll out of interventions promoting LSH Awareness, Linkage of perpetrators and survivors to SRHR, GBV, HIV, Mental health & rehabilitation services.
• Identifies locations across the community, suitable for execution of group IPC sessions.
• Provides guidance and continuous feedback to improve support for perpetrators at community level.
• Provides guidance on innovative ways to bring men together and conduct IPC on GBV, DSA and Anti-Child Marriage awareness, Linkage of perpetrators to GBV, SRHR services & Linkage of PWUID to rehabilitation services.
• Submits weekly highlight reports and monthly detailed reports.

• Distributes/places promotional material for campaign visibility across local facilities and key locations routinely and during events.
• Provides support in training community cadres on campaign key messages and job aids.
• Assists with data collection from targeted referral facilities.
• Documents project success stories/lessons learnt.
• Accurately captures and consolidates all data collected by the field team and enters this into relevant M&E platforms using provided tools.
• Any other duties assigned by the Marketing Manager either directly or through the Marketing Officer at community or Head Office level.

Qualifications and Experience

• Diploma/Degree in Social Sciences or Health Promotions is an added advantage.
• Experience working in the district applied for is an added advantage.
• Experience working in public health/SRHR/Gender Based violence (GBV) /Mental Health/Drug & Substance Abuse programming is an added advantage.