USAID PREVENT TB - District Officer for Advocacy and Partnership (DAPO)

 Profile of USAID PREVENT TB

USAID PREVENT TB is a five-year USAID funded project to Support for Public Education and Communication to Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) Acceleration that is implemented by Yayasan Project HOPE (YPH). This program will use evidence-based health communication program implemented to improve the coverage and outcome of TPT among eligible sub-population in six target provinces with the highest number of estimated TB latent cases (North Sumatera, Jakarta, Banten, West Java, East Java, and South Sulawesi).

 

Yayasan Project HOPE (YPH) provides equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran, or marital status.

 

Purpose of Position

The position is responsible for the program implementation at their respective district as per workplan. The district officer will ensure programmatic and administrative process work in accordance with the guidelines, provide routine reports in a timely manner, consult the implementation issues with the provincial coordinator. The district officer will implement the project in alignment with the guidelines and TOR. The district officer will make contacts with district stakeholders and consult any issues/backstopping with their respective Provincial Coordinator. The District Officer is responsible for making available activity reports completed with all programmatic and finance supporting documents in a timely manner.

 

Location: Kabupaten Bogor

 

Reporting Requirement

The position is reporting to SBCC Provincial Coordinator.

 

Key Responsibilities

1. Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
2. Have focus to working with high level partners at district
3. Plan and execute a creative advocacy action plan, including influencing decision-makers, campaigns, lobbying, and building public support for up taking TPT.
4. Keep in contact with new and old relationships with collaborative partners.
5. Prepare accurate records and reports on advocacy
6. Assist the researchers in conducting the behavioral change communication studies
7. Supervise regular data collection through implementing partners and ensure the quality of the data by random verifications and validations.
8. Lead TPT Advocacy in line with the legislative and local government regulations.
9. Collect and provide evidence-based information, specifically around challenges and concerns, to inform provincial and national-level advocacy.
10. Provide technical and programmatic guidance on Advocacy and Partnership concerns at TPT.
11. Build and strengthen TPT partnerships for collective advocacy and collective project delivery. This includes identifying and enhancing partnership/collaboration with Like-minded CSOs and local government offices at the district level.
12. Lead on stakeholder assessment and capacity-building needs in relation to advocacy.
13. Assist in resource mobilization efforts for advocacy initiatives.
14. Compile, record, manage, and preserve monitoring and evaluation data in a safe and accessible way.
15. Support Provincial Coordinator in developing the annual and six monthly. organizational reports.
16. Support Provincial Coordinator in dealing with any other tasks as may be required.
17. Preparing an annual budget for community outreach activities.
18. Manage activity budget and reporting

 

Qualifications and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in the field of Social Sciences, communications, behavioral sciences, health promotion, or community development.
2. At least 4 years of relevant experience in communication activities, e.g., advocacy and social mobilization, stigma reduction program, or strategic communication document development.
3. Minimum 2 (two) years working experience working with local government sectors, non-government organizations.
4. Demonstrated experience with data management, recording and reporting project processes.
5. Demonstrated experience with works in communication (BCC, outreach activities, and/or advocacy) with different audiences.
6. Demonstrated experience preparing activity reports completed with administrative requirements (workplan, budget, request forms, reporting forms, and supporting documents).
7. Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
8. Ability to work in close coordination with project key stakeholders, partners, and other stakeholders in support to Provincial Coordinators.
9. Computer proficiency should include Word, Excel, and other general experience with presentation applications, and infectious disease information systems.

 

Code of Conduct

It is our shared responsibility and obligation to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, Trafficking in Persons, Child Safeguarding, and any suggested violation to our Code of Conduct, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment. An obligation to report If you see, hear, or are made aware of any suggested activities.

 

Application Process

Interested candidates should send a Covering Letter mentioning the job title in the subject line: District Officer for Advocacy and Partnership (DAPO) Bogor – (NAME) along with their recent CV as a document attachment to: recruitment.yph@gmail.com no later than July 16, 2023.