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Who we are

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non‐profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing. We are a $560m enterprise based in Washington, DC, operating in the private and public sectors in more than 65 countries.

Join us!

There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.

PSI/Ethiopia wants to reimagine healthcare, put the consumer at the center, and whenever possible, bring quality care to the front door.  We achieve health impact in Ethiopia by working with both government and private partners and harvesting technology innovation to bring quality care closer to communities, schools, and homes.   We empower consumers by including them in the design of healthcare solutions, offering them more healthcare choices, and helping them to have a voice in influencing national priorities.  We work with all market actors in the health system to understand their needs, designing and delivering solutions so that market systems can sustainably serve consumers for the long term, helping to support the Government of Ethiopia in achieving Universal Health Coverage.

We are looking for a Design and Learning Manager to lead innovation in program design and delivery using a Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach within the Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (AYSRH) portfolio. Reporting to Technical Advisor, RISE, this individual will guide adaptation of an existing family planning counseling approach (Smart Start) to meet the needs of the new Global Affairs Canada-funded program, which aims to support married rural adolescents and young women to access family planning. The role will contribute to the larger efforts of the Design Learning and Adaptation team to improve health interventions for adolescents in Ethiopia across a range of other programs. The Design and Learning Manager is a motivated, creative, self-reflective, and resourceful professional.

Sounds like you? Read on! Your contribution

You will work under the supervision of the Technical Advisor, RISE. Specific roles include:

  • Lead a multi-organizational team through the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process to build demand for quality contraceptive services among adolescent girls
  • Create tools for qualitative research, including interview guides
  • Lead synthesis of field visit learnings with program participants to identify lesson learned and next steps for program design
  • Engage adolescents and young in-school designers in the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process
  • Lead testing of ideas in the field (prototyping) to validate learnings and develop viable demand-creation products
  • Build the capacity of other team members to understand and use HCD approaches for program design and improvement
  • Lead planning for field learning visits, including strategy and logistics
  • Co-design of adapted Smart Start counseling and service delivery to include safe abortion and post-abortion (SA/PAC)
  • Lead the development of animated videos and messaging about each method and adapt tablet-based counseling
  • Incorporate gender assessment /research finding input and gender messaging in smart start
  • Document HCD journey and findings through the creation of timely written reports and PPT decks
  • Support in transforming insights generated into practical tools (deck, videos, and other materials).
  • Field travel up to 40% of the time within Ethiopia to project sites

What it takes to succeed

  • Comfort working in ambiguity – while staying focused on the long-term goal
  • Ability to think creatively and critically to identify solutions to problems
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good at forging partnerships for greater impact
  • Belief in the power of teamwork and partnership to accelerate work and improve outcomes
  • Self-motivated, organized professional who can effectively manager his/her own time
  • Knowledgeable about adolescents in Ethiopia and the challenges facing young people
  • Strong work ethic and “can-do” attitude
  • Eager to learn from mistakes and use them to fuel improved performance
  • Desire to move beyond ideas and to action
  • Hard-working and quick learner – not afraid to try new things
  • Passion to put the power on the users’ hands.

Job Requirements

Your background

  • MA/BA Degree in Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Communications and Marketing, Design, Social Work, other Behavioral Sciences, or related degree
  • Minimum eight (8) years of professional experience
  • Minimum two (2) years of experience in people management
  • Experience with two (2) or more of the following: human-centered design/design thinking, youth, and gender, reproductive health, qualitative research
  • Demonstrated ability to work well with other teams and people
  • Fluent in English and Amharic, other languages are an asset.

How to Apply

Are you intrigued? Apply!

By following our 3 steps application process:

  1. Fill out the application form using the following link:  Online Application Form It will only take 5 to 10 minutes.
  2. Send your CV and application letter to [email protected] clearly mark “Application for Design & Learning Manager Position” in the subject line.
  3. Check your email and make sure you receive an automatic response acknowledging receipt of your application which means your application was successful. If you don’t receive the automatic response, check again your subject line and if needed, re-submit your CV and application letter with the correct subject.

Application deadline October 1, 2020.  We will call or e-mail you back if there is a good fit on both sides.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.

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We’re a nonprofit, but we take a business approach to saving lives.

PSI is a global health network of more than 50 local organizations dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world by focusing on serious challenges like a lack of family planning, HIV and AIDS, barriers to maternal health, and the greatest threats to children under five, including malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition.

A hallmark of PSI is a commitment to the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure wide acceptance and proper use.

PSI works in partnership with local governments, ministries of health and local organizations to create health solutions that are built to last.

HISTORY

PSI was founded in 1970 to improve reproductive health using commercial marketing strategies. For its first 15 years, PSI worked mostly in family planning (hence the name Population Services International). In 1985, it started promoting oral rehydration therapy. PSI’s first HIV prevention project — which promoted abstinence, fidelity and condoms — began in 1988. PSI added malaria and safe water to its portfolio in the 1990s and tuberculosis in 2004.

HEALTH IMPACT

PSI has an uncompromising focus on measurable health impact and measures its effect on disease and death much like a for-profit measures its profits. Just last year PSI saved the lives of 9,246 mothers, prevented 3,896,671 unintended pregnancies, stopped 234,367 new HIV infections, and avoided 379,286 deaths due to diseases like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia that most threaten young children.

PROGRAM LOCATION

World headquarters in Washington, D.C., programs in more than 50 countries, European office in Amsterdam.

PEOPLE

More than 8,900 staff work for PSI and its affiliates. PSI’s expatriate staff is about 1% of the overall workforce. Support services and advocacy are provided by staff in Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PSI’S MISSION

PSI makes it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services.

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0 USD Addis Ababa CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Population Services International (PSI)

Who we are

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non‐profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing. We are a $560m enterprise based in Washington, DC, operating in the private and public sectors in more than 65 countries.

Join us!

There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds - from the medical industry to the music business - all with unique skills we bring to the job.

PSI/Ethiopia wants to reimagine healthcare, put the consumer at the center, and whenever possible, bring quality care to the front door.  We achieve health impact in Ethiopia by working with both government and private partners and harvesting technology innovation to bring quality care closer to communities, schools, and homes.   We empower consumers by including them in the design of healthcare solutions, offering them more healthcare choices, and helping them to have a voice in influencing national priorities.  We work with all market actors in the health system to understand their needs, designing and delivering solutions so that market systems can sustainably serve consumers for the long term, helping to support the Government of Ethiopia in achieving Universal Health Coverage.

We are looking for a Design and Learning Manager to lead innovation in program design and delivery using a Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach within the Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (AYSRH) portfolio. Reporting to Technical Advisor, RISE, this individual will guide adaptation of an existing family planning counseling approach (Smart Start) to meet the needs of the new Global Affairs Canada-funded program, which aims to support married rural adolescents and young women to access family planning. The role will contribute to the larger efforts of the Design Learning and Adaptation team to improve health interventions for adolescents in Ethiopia across a range of other programs. The Design and Learning Manager is a motivated, creative, self-reflective, and resourceful professional.

Sounds like you? Read on! Your contribution

You will work under the supervision of the Technical Advisor, RISE. Specific roles include:

  • Lead a multi-organizational team through the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process to build demand for quality contraceptive services among adolescent girls
  • Create tools for qualitative research, including interview guides
  • Lead synthesis of field visit learnings with program participants to identify lesson learned and next steps for program design
  • Engage adolescents and young in-school designers in the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process
  • Lead testing of ideas in the field (prototyping) to validate learnings and develop viable demand-creation products
  • Build the capacity of other team members to understand and use HCD approaches for program design and improvement
  • Lead planning for field learning visits, including strategy and logistics
  • Co-design of adapted Smart Start counseling and service delivery to include safe abortion and post-abortion (SA/PAC)
  • Lead the development of animated videos and messaging about each method and adapt tablet-based counseling
  • Incorporate gender assessment /research finding input and gender messaging in smart start
  • Document HCD journey and findings through the creation of timely written reports and PPT decks
  • Support in transforming insights generated into practical tools (deck, videos, and other materials).
  • Field travel up to 40% of the time within Ethiopia to project sites

What it takes to succeed

  • Comfort working in ambiguity – while staying focused on the long-term goal
  • Ability to think creatively and critically to identify solutions to problems
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good at forging partnerships for greater impact
  • Belief in the power of teamwork and partnership to accelerate work and improve outcomes
  • Self-motivated, organized professional who can effectively manager his/her own time
  • Knowledgeable about adolescents in Ethiopia and the challenges facing young people
  • Strong work ethic and “can-do” attitude
  • Eager to learn from mistakes and use them to fuel improved performance
  • Desire to move beyond ideas and to action
  • Hard-working and quick learner – not afraid to try new things
  • Passion to put the power on the users’ hands.

Job Requirements

Your background

  • MA/BA Degree in Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Communications and Marketing, Design, Social Work, other Behavioral Sciences, or related degree
  • Minimum eight (8) years of professional experience
  • Minimum two (2) years of experience in people management
  • Experience with two (2) or more of the following: human-centered design/design thinking, youth, and gender, reproductive health, qualitative research
  • Demonstrated ability to work well with other teams and people
  • Fluent in English and Amharic, other languages are an asset.

How to Apply

Are you intrigued? Apply!

By following our 3 steps application process:

  1. Fill out the application form using the following link:  Online Application Form It will only take 5 to 10 minutes.
  2. Send your CV and application letter to [email protected] clearly mark “Application for Design & Learning Manager Position” in the subject line.
  3. Check your email and make sure you receive an automatic response acknowledging receipt of your application which means your application was successful. If you don’t receive the automatic response, check again your subject line and if needed, re-submit your CV and application letter with the correct subject.

Application deadline October 1, 2020.  We will call or e-mail you back if there is a good fit on both sides.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.

2020-10-02

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