Health Promotion Lead 298 views2 applications

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to lead the health promotion aspect of our work in Ghana.

Our
work in Ghana supports the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to build capacity to deliver eye care within the primary health care system.  Our work has 3 phases.  The current phase, phase 1, focuses on integrating primary eye care (PEC) into existing school health programmes within several districts in Central Region.
Phase 2 is intended to expand this work into more regions and Phase 3 to expand our work nationwide.

Reporting in to the Programmes Manager in Ghana, the Health
Promotion Lead will be responsible for leading, designing and managing VFAN’s
PEC health promotion programme in close partnership with the GHS and
integrated into existing health promotion activities in order to increase the
awareness of PEC and create demand for the PEC services provided by the GHS
and VFAN.

 The Health Promotion Lead will work closely with other
VFAN team members, in particular the Eye Health Team Lead and the Monitoring
and Reporting Lead to ensure that programme activities are delivered on time
and to budget.

 This
role will be pivotal in the design and implementation of VFAN’s first
programmes in Ghana and as such requires an individual with experience in the
design, creation, implementation and/or management of public health campaigns/activities
that can work under their own initiative.
It requires an individual that can cope with and manage uncertainty to
deliver exceptional results in such an environment.  Working across a range of stakeholders you
will need to be good at influencing others and building good working relationships
across a wide range of cultures and personalities, quickly.

 While
prior experience of working in or on public health issues is a key
requirement we are willing to accept applications from exceptional
individuals who have led campaigns more broadly – for example in other
sectors like education or wider advocacy for NGOs.

Key Responsibilities  

Health Promotion

·       Lead the development of health promotion approaches to increase
health awareness in PEC

·       Lead the design and development of new health promotion materials for
public information to be used across a wide variety of channels including
(but not limited to) print – posters, newspapers, leaflets, fact sheets,
brochures etc, radio, drama scripts, social media, community/school
leadership groups

·       Lead the review and adaptation of existing health promotion materials
from a variety of sources

·       Conduct assessment of available communication channels through which
health promotion messages and activities can be delivered

·       Conduct stakeholder mapping to determine the most appropriate method
of health promotion for all stakeholders and beneficiaries

·       In collaboration with GHS, GES & local communities, identify
local platforms through which eye heath awareness information can be
disseminated to reach school children and communities

·       Plan and manage implementation of health promotion activities to
ensure delivery to time and budget

·       Develop and manage the detailed workplan and budget for all health
promotion activities

·       In coordination with the Eye Health Team Lead, lead regional,
district, school/community level stakeholder engagement across a wide range
of stakeholders to support the effective delivery of health promotion
activities and PEC activities in the communities.

·       Train and coach the programme team (VFAN and GHS/GES) in health
promotion approaches, materials, and messages to enable them to conduct
health promotion activities

·       Conduct site visits to provide coaching and advice for the VFAN Eye
Health Team, GHS and Ghana Education Service (GES) staff and teachers in
health awareness activities

·       Conduct regular site visits to:

o
Review how health promotion activities
are conducted to ensure continuous improvement of health promotion materials,
plans and activities

o
Provide support and advice to teams
implementing health promotion work

 Monitoring and Reporting

·       Monitor the implementation of awareness building activities

·       Support the Monitoring & Reporting Lead to assess effectiveness
of awareness building activities

·       Monitor issues and risks relating to our health promotion work and providing
proactive recommendation for resolution in consultation with the Programme
Manager

·       Complete regular status reporting to Senior Management including
both narrative and quantitative information to agreed format and deadlines

·       Support wider reporting requirements such as Board and donor
reporting by providing narrative and quantitative information regarding
health promotion activities

 Administration

·       Complete detailed documentation of all health promotion work – including
(but not limited to) approach, processes, materials, implementation plan, internal
learning reviews etc

·       Complete programme administration including maintaining accurate records,
both electronically and hard copy of our health promotion work

·       Support the Finance & Administration Manager and the Eye Health
Team Lead to complete detailed logistics to enable health promotion
activities to take place according to plan and budget

 Other

Carry out other reasonable duties assigned by the
Programme Manager/Senior Management from time to time.

Required Competencies 

·
Excellent verbal and written
communication skills

·
Demonstrable experience in creating and
writing excellent communications that present information in a compelling way
to differing audiences at all levels

·
Experience of communication/information
campaigns, programmes and/or activities that utilise a broad range of channels
including (but not limited to) print, radio, online, community dram etc

·
Self-starter who is confident, assertive
and comfortable working with a high level of autonomy

·
Excellent organisational and planning skills
with good attention to detail

·
Excellent facilitation skills

·
Ability to manage a wide, varied and
changing workload, to prioritise effectively, and deliver to deadlines

·
Strong team player with the ability to quickly
establish and build effective working relationships with people at all levels,
from different organisations, communities and backgrounds

·
Flexible and mature outlook with the
ability to adapt to a rapidly changing organisation

·
Pro-active approach to identifying and
resolving problems

·
Strong sense of ownership for quality of
work, deliverables and service

·
Comfortable working in a small team and
within a small, dynamic organisation

·
Willingness to travel in Ghana, undertake
periods of work outside VFAN office(s)

Computer literate, proficient
user of MS Office and Adobe (or similar) design software 

 Qualifications
and experience

Education – Essential: Degree level education

Essential Experience:

·
Good knowledge of the GHS gained
through working in or alongside GHS in any capacity (at least 1-2 years)

·
A good understanding of current
priorities, challenges and issues within the health sector

·
Demonstrable experience (at least 2
years) from any area of public health, of:

o
Leading the design and implementation
of public health awareness/health promotion campaigns or activities

o
Creating excellent communication
materials and messaging for different audiences across differing mediums

o
Developing and managing stakeholder
relationships with a variety of stakeholders at different levels

·
Results oriented focus – proven
experience of working with, and delivering to metrics and targets

·
Proven experience in completing
monitoring and reporting activities

Desirable Experience:

·
A good understanding of visual
impairment, community eye health and blindness issues

·
Experience of working in an
international NGO in public health/eye health sector

·
Experience of community health/community
eye health work and programmes

Language Requirements.  Essential
– Fluency in spoken and written English

Desirable
– good working knowledge of local Ghanaian language(s)

Travel – This role will involve domestic travel
within Ghana

To apply please send your CV (maximum of 3 sides of A4) and a covering letter (maximum 2 sides of A4) outlining why you are interested in this role and how your experience meets the requirements to [email protected] by 09:00 Ghana time Monday 06 May 2019.  Following review of applications selected candidates will be invited for interview in our Accra office.  We hope to hold first round interviews 21/22 May and second round interviews 28/29  May (these dates are indicative and may change dependent on the availability of interviewers).  The role is available from May and the start date is flexible.  The role will be based in Accra with significant travel initially in Central Region