Social and Behavior Change Communication Associate at Impact Water Global

Job Description (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Impact Water envisions a world where everyone has reliable and easy access to safe drinking water to support their health and well-being. MISSION Our mission is to increase access to safe water, with an initial focus on schools and health facilities, through the provision of high quality safe water technologies and long term maintenance and repair of these technologies. VALUES Impact We use our talent and resources to create positive and measurable social impact at scale. We’re committed to creating reliable and easy access to safe drinking water for millions of students around the world. Entrepreneurship We innovate, adapt, and pursue new ideas and approaches constantly in support of our mission. We’d rather experiment and fail early and course correct, than not take risks. We encourage imagination and resourcefulness. Pay-for-performance We believe outcomes should be rewarded and see positive social and business benefits to incentivizing results via performance-based compensation. We strive to incorporate pay-for-performance dimensions wherever possible. Integrity As a social business, we are steadfast in our commitment to integrity in all that we do. Honest feedback, honest reporting and ethical and responsible business behavior is fundamental to our identity and the business we aspire to be. We have a zero-tolerance policy for fraud. Equality We see potential everywhere and believe all of us can help each other to become better people, better communities and a better planet. We believe in dignity and are committed to creating conditions which support it, everywhere and always.Responsibilities:School Engagement: Conduct regular visits to schools to gain insights on challenges school’s face in providing safe drinking water to students.Design and implement Impact Water’s strategy for digital and traditional outreach to schools and other partner institutions.Research and implement innovative tools and technologies for effective outreach.Become a thought leader on generating behavior change communication materials.Collaborate with country offices to integrate behavior change communication into resupply and maintenance visits to schools. Product Usage: Design surveys and other mechanisms to evaluate product usage at schools.Contribute to the design of data collection forms used by other departments to deepen understanding of product usage.Research and pilot cost-effective technologies that increase usage.Identify ways to use human-centered design thinking to increase usage. Qualifications & Skills Required: Degree in Public Health, Marketing or any of the Social Sciences (Master’s preferred).Must be able to travel 25% of the time to visit schools across Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda.Experience in product research and design, commercial and/or social marketing, and behavior change communications is desirable.Experience working with schools is a plus.Excellent knowledge of digital and traditional outreach methods.High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Knowledge of apps like Salesforce, Taroworks and ODK is a plus.Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.Entrepreneurial team player who can multitask.Self reliant, good problem solver, results oriented.Ability to pay attention to details.Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive.Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to effectively interface with senior management and consultants / field agents.Ability to operate as an effective tactical as well as strategic thinker.