Overview
Provide technical support for demand promotion across routine immunization, new vaccine introductions, and vaccine-preventable disease outbreak response campaigns in Ethiopia. The role aims to increase public acceptance, uptake, and demand for vaccines.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to the Immunization Service Desk (ISD) of MOH and the Communication Technical Working Group (C‑TWG) to design, coordinate, and implement demand promotion strategies.
- Coordinate and liaise with ISD/MOH, UNICEF, and partner agencies to organize and facilitate C‑TWG meetings.
- Support the development, operationalization, and monitoring of national immunization demand promotion strategies.
- Ensure C‑TWG supports the planning and implementation of activities that promote vaccine acceptance and uptake.
- Provide technical support to ISD/MOH and C‑TWG on the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of demand promotion and risk communication interventions.
- Facilitate the development, review, pre-testing, and endorsement of multi-channel communication materials.
- Coordinate with government and media partners to strengthen social listening and public opinion monitoring systems.
- Support the scale-up of innovative and evidence-based demand strategies.
- Strengthen community engagement systems.
- Provide capacity-building support for frontline health workers, social mobilizers, media professionals, and hotline operators.
- Facilitate and participate in monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
- Ensure that all SBC approaches are inclusive, participatory, and gender-transformative.
- Document and disseminate best practices and human-interest stories.
- Prepare and submit required technical reports and deliverables.
Required Experience
- Minimum of seven years of relevant SBC/demand promotion experiences in immunization or health sectors at national/federal level.
- In-depth understanding of Ethiopian communities and SBC/demand promotion for immunization key stakeholders at national/federal level.
- Capacity in the designing, planning, monitoring, evaluation, training and skills-transfer of participatory governance in demand promotion for immunization interventions.
Qualifications
Advance university degree in social science, public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communication for development/Social and behavioural change communication.
