Adolescent Behavior Change Manager

Job Description

Title: Adolescent Behavior Change Manager

Company Name: Pathfinder International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master in Public Health or Social sciences or related fields plus a minimum of 5 years' experience in management of FP programs;

Experience Requirements:
∎ 7 to 8 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Reports to:
∎ Programs and Impact
∎ Direct Supervisor: AY Specialist
∎ Classification: Regular Full-time (based at Dhaka)
∎ Directs: None
∎ Summary:
∎ Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do-believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services-from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, ensure availability of post-abortion care, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.
∎ The Program Manager will work across project technical teams to support project interventions with a focus on increasing adolescent and youth access to Sexual and Reproductive Health with a focus on Adolescent Behavior Health Management.
∎ The position is assigned to Pathfinder`s Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning (AUAFP) project in Bangladesh. AUAFP is a five year multi-million dollar project funded by USAID. The project aims to strengthen and expand access to quality family planning services through a collaborative health system capacity building partnership with the government of Bangladesh, specifically through a flexible implementation model led in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, including the National Institute of Population Research and Training, the Directorate General of Family Planning, and the Directorate General of Health Services. The project provides adaptive, needs driven technical assistance at national, divisional, district, and upazila levels to the MOHFW in 4 Divisions: Chattogram, Dhaka, Mymensingh, and Sylhet.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Strategic Leadership: Provides strategic technical leadership and expertise to project on the implementation of high quality Adolescent Behavioral Change interventions.
∎ Programming Design, Planning and Implementation: Provides programmatic leadership in country project(s). Specifically, collaborate on the urban health activities - including with RMG factories building on the (re)solve project interventions, work on the project's digital health and SBCC activities to promote greater capacity of service providers to reach youth and collaborate with the MEL team on implementation of science and learning.
∎ Program Management: Coordinates assigned activities with implementing staff and partners.
∎ Technical Assistance: Provides technical assistance as needed to GOB counterparts, project technical teams, and stakeholders. Participates in the design and implementation of digital solutions, SBCC interventions, and urban health interventions.
∎ Reporting: Ensures timely, accurate and appropriate monitoring, documentation, and reporting on assigned activities and results to the AY Specialist.
∎ Networking and Branding: Actively participates in internal and external project communications. Participates in the documentation and dissemination of project findings. Represents project in professional circles through meetings,
∎ conferences and presentations when needed.
∎ Quality Assurance: Works with project team to ensure that best practices for services and service integration are well documented, evaluated and poised for scale up.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies:
∎ Country Specific Public Health System. Foundational knowledge of the assigned countries' public health systems.
∎ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Advanced knowledge of family planning and reproductive health principles, practices and services of
∎ assigned program or project
∎ Program Planning and Management: Advanced skills developing strategic and tactical programming plans in cooperation with others who represent a wide range of interests and needs.
∎ Research and Data collection: Advanced knowledge of qualitative data research and analysis.
∎ New Business Development: Advanced skills in new business/resource
∎ development, including proposal management, program design and proposal
∎ writing.
∎ Facilitation and Team Building: Advanced skills in facilitation, team building and coordination.
∎ Minimally Required Organizational Competencies:
∎ Growth mindset: Advanced willingness and interest to learn new methods; open to newer solutions that build on best practices in public health in addressing Family Planning non-use.
∎ Problem-solving: Advanced ability to identify problems and actively solve them through collaboration and engagement with colleagues and external partners
∎ Languages: Advanced writing and speaking skills using local language and English language.
∎ Communication: Advanced oral and written communication skills, Advanced knowledge of report writing.
∎ Passion for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Commitment to family planning, reproductive health services, gender, maternal, child health services, and eradication of harmful traditional practices.
∎ Influencing and Customer Service Skills: Demonstrated influencing and diplomacy skills. Advanced customer service skills.
∎ Organization, Planning and Multi-tasking: Advanced organizational and planning skills, project planning and management skills. Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision.
∎ Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as a member of the team, ability to be detailed-oriented, and ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment.
∎ Matrix Management: Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.
∎ Confidentiality: Proven ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related issues.
∎ PC Applications: Advanced knowledge of MS Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
∎ Minimally Required Education, Training and Experience:
∎ 7-8 years' experience working in development, preferably implementing programs in Bangladesh focusing on Adolescent & Youth and Family Planning; working experience with garments industries
∎ Prefer: Experience with USG funded projects
∎ Other Information:
∎ Travel required (20% or less)
∎ Must be willing to travel in public transport
∎ Uses cellular and desk phone; laptop or desktop computer

Application Deadline: 5 Oct 2020

Company Information:
∎ 29 Sep 2020
∎ Pathfinder International
∎ Business : Pathfinder is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose.

Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent.

Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward. Change lives with us.

Category: NGO/Development