IPC Team Lead (GBV)

IPC Team Lead (GBV) – Bulawayo *1 (Part-time)

Population Solutions for Health

Population Solutions for Health is a leading global health organization with programs targeting HIV and reproductive health, malaria and child survival. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessing the power of the markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behaviour change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives.

Job Description

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.
• 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.