VACANCY: short term Content Mapping Consultant for Youth-ICT

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (Johns Hopkins 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 Johns Hopkins CCP over 25 years ago to consolidate several health communication programs and focus attention on the central role of communication in health behavior change.  Johns Hopkins CCP is a part of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health within the Department of Health, Behavior and Society.  The mission of Johns Hopkins 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 short-term Content Mapping Consultant for Youth-ICT (home-based with travel to Jakarta as necessary).

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) by overcoming identified barriers and creating a consumer-driven environment where every woman can choose and access the right method given her life stage. 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 and Populaton 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 wle.cill also be responsible for coordinating the involvement of the TWG and it parents throughout the initiative.

GENERAL POSITION DESCRIPTION:      Under the MyChoice program, CCP seek to explore the reach of program into unmarried adolescent specifically on access to information and services. We are currently developing a website in cooperation with Hipwee.com to expand access for unmarried adolescent. During the past few months, we have developed the content and do the mapping of the content to suit to adolescent. On the other hand, we have a rich of references from our own qualitative research in 9 provinces in Indonesia to better support the content and provide in-depth insight so that the content reflects the current needs of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Based on this, we are looking for a consultant to provide analysis taken from our raw qualitative data to better navigate us in addressing ASRH in Indonesia through our website, provide insight in our youth topics, identify the theme in the raw qualitative data and compile it for further analysis, and, suggest preferred content in each theme according to the findings in the qualitative data.    

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor degree or higher in relevant discipline, preferably in reproductive health, public health, demography, psychology, communication and/or other related social science field, with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience with international development programs in analyzing large data of qualitative research in Indonesia, especially the ones related to Adolescent Reproductive Health issues; has a good networking with key stakeholders of ARH in Indonesia; ability to work in a multi-cultural setting under tight deadlines; and, have excellent communication skills, including fluency in written and spoken in both English and Indonesia.

Interested candidates may submit CV/resume and application letter to procurement@jhuccp.or.id by Wednesday – July 18, 2018.  Please notify the position applied in the subject line.  Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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