Content Consultant for Youth-ICT

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), a not-for-profit human development organization, combines the science and art of strategic communication to help people around the world make better choice for themselves, their families and their communities.  Based in Baltimore, MD, USA, Johns Hopkins University is one of the largest Medical and Public Health schools in the United States.  Johns Hopkins University established CCP over 25 years ago to consolidate several health communication programs and focus attention on the central role of communication in health behavior change.  CCP is a part of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health within the Department of Health, Behavior and Society.  The mission of CCP is to use its core strengths —strategic behavior change, knowledge management, advocacy, capacity building and research and evaluation— to achieve these goals. 

We are currently seeking a qualified candidate for Consultant for Youth-ICT in Jakarta.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:             The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) manages the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded “Reinvigorating Family Planning in Indonesia” project, known as MyChoice Indonesia.  MyChoice is designed to contribute to the Government of Indonesia’s family planning goal to increase the nation’s modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR). MyChoice currently promotes it’s “Right Method.. Right Time. My Choice” demand generation initiative to young and newly married couples through an integrated, multi-level campaign that includes TV spots, SKATA consumer smartphone app, SKATA website,  community mobilization activities and multiple active social media communities.

To further support the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) to expand and improve family planning in Indonesia, MyChoice is working with an Adolescent Reproductive Health technical working group to develop and support strategies to increase the age of marriage and decrease the fertility rate amongst adolescents.  In 2016 MyChoice conducted a qualitative study to examine the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and their parents. The study revealed that unmarried adolescents both need and want easily accessible, reliable, stigma free sexual and reproductive health information. In response to that need, the MyChoice project will develop sexual and reproductive health content for youth and their parents.  The content will be developed based on the qualitative study and insights from technical working group partners and youth themselves. The youth content will be hosted on a Hipwee-hosted microsite, while the parent content will be hosted on the SKATA website. Hipwee will be responsible for developing the content for youth and parents, while CCP will be responsible for overseeing the technical quality of that content. CCP will also be responsible for coordinating the involvement of the TWG and it parents throughout the initiative.

GENERAL POSITION DESCRIPTION:      The Consultant will support the initiative for 6 months. S/he will be responsible for, amongst others, content production for media (development and editing), content monitoring to ensure the content produced by contributors is technically accurate and appropriate.  S/he will also be responsible to provide technical support (i.e., acting as expert focal point for the MyChoice, facilitating workshop and attend any necessary meetings).

Minimum qualifications: bachelor or master degree in relevant discipline, preferably in public health, social science, communication with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience with international development programs which includes 5 years of relevant position content writer for Adolescent Reproduction Health in a similar project. Must have experience in health programming or related field and in developing articles focusing on unmarried adolescent access to family planning, familiarity with web publication; able to align multiple brand strategies and ideas, creative and innovative thinker and planner, able to write a wide variety of topics for multiple platforms; and, have excellent communication, writing and editing skills, including fluency in written and spoken English. Past experience working with I/NGOs and donors is a plus.

Interested candidates may submit CV/resume and application letter to hr@jhuccp.or.id by February 8, 2018.  Please notify the position applied in the subject line.  Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.