Kenya
Communications Advisor for PROPEL Health Kenya
Project Overview and Role:
In Kenya, Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded PROPEL Health project to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices.
It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH) with a lens to enable economic empowerment, positive youth development.
Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Background:
PROPEL Health Kenya is recruiting a Communications Advisor who will support the project team to communicate the results of the projects’ interventions relating to health systems strengthening. The Advisor will be expected to produce high quality written and developed materials that will document PROPEL Health Kenya support to national and county governments targeting internal and external audiences that will necessitate stakeholder engagement.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The services, job functions and responsibilities (“Scope of Work”) that the Employee will perform shall include, but are not limited to:
- Guides the design of PROPEL Health Kenya communication and dissemination strategy and the production of innovative communication tools, products, and platforms. These include reports, briefs, presentations, and special background papers.
- Provides communication guidance and capacity building to PROPEL Health Kenya staff and project partners, through training and mentoring to help partners apply communication in their contexts.
- Organizes and supports communications and materials for project trainings, conferences, workshops, and meetings.
- Provides leadership in the design and implementation of policy advocacy activities for PROPEL Health Kenya. This includes managing activities related to advocacy capacity-building, documentation and assessment included in the PROPEL Health Kenya Work-plan.
- Develops and manages innovative mechanisms and tools to capture and share PROPEL Health Kenya ideas, achievements, and impact.
- In collaboration with US-based communication team, manages the dissemination of PROPEL Health Kenya products globally.
- Coordinates the project’s participation in national, regional, and international conferences by helping to identify appropriate meetings, plan abstracts, prepare and finalize materials, and provide on-site communication support as required.
- Participates, and represents the organization as needed, in outside associations, conferences, and symposia.
- Actively participates in the development of annual work planning, design, implementation, and reporting related to project technical activities.
- Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- A master’s degree in communication studies, knowledge management, development journalism, political science, or a related field from a reputable university.
- At least 8 years’ experience in setting up and managing communication and knowledge management activities in a donor-funded organization in the health sector is required. This should include the following:
- Conducting audience needs research and developing communication and knowledge management strategies to support large scale programs.
- Developing audience-appropriate knowledge products and dissemination mechanisms to support transfer of knowledge from program to end users.
- Conducting training/capacity building in communication, knowledge management and advocacy; as well as supporting knowledge and skills transfer.
- Documenting impact of project communications and best practices.
- Managing pre-press production of program documents and overseeing printing and dissemination.
- Preparation of routine donor/government reports. E.g., quarterly reports, Health Financing reports.
- Excellent strategy development and writing skills; ability to synthesize information from different sources to produce coherent knowledge and advocacy products.
- Strong editing skills and ability to support other program staff to produce high quality products.
- Experience working with donor-funded programs. Experience with USAID-funded projects an added advantage.
Duration:
Full-time, January 1, 2024 – September 30, 2024, with possible extension based on funding & Performance.
Reporting and Supervision:
This is a full-time position based in Nairobi, Kenya, and reporting to the Country Project Director.
Submit your resume and cover letter with three professional referees.
Applications close on November 30, 2023. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Company Overview:
About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice.
We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.
These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.
All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
