Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Specialist
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MSI Reproductive Choices
Hybrid- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: £40,000 GBP-£51,000 GBP / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 10/04/2025
- Location: United Kingdom
About MSI
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.
About the Role
This role supports the design and implementation of social and behavioural change (SBC) best practice in our country programmes with a focus on inclusive and gender-transformative approaches and reaching key populations and vulnerable groups such as adolescents, people in extreme poverty and people living with disability.
This role will provide focused technical assistance to MSI country programmes, supporting evidence-based design of new approaches, capacity strengthening, monitoring, evaluation and documentation of social and behaviour change activities. It will also support donor and fundraising teams within MSI to include appropriate best practice approaches into new proposal design.
The SBC Specialist will also work with the Evidence and Impact team to document and share successes and challenges in SBC programming and support the dissemination of best practice approaches. The learnings and outcomes generated from key projects will be used to strengthen SBC programming across MSI’s global partnership, significantly contributing to delivery of MSI’s 2030 strategy.
This role reports to the Head of SBC and Inclusion in the Technical Services Department, which supports social and behaviour change programming across MSI.
About You
For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.
This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.
Qualifications
- Degree in relevant field (public health, marketing/ communications, international development etc.) and 5-7 years of relevant technical experience.
- Significant technical experience, at a regional or global advisory level, in the design and implementation of social and behaviour change programming. Thematic experience must include technical assistance in the health sector, preferably in SRHR.
- Experience of the critical review of existing SBC approaches to identify learnings and opportunities to improve, establish recommended approaches and guidance and support with effective scale-up.
- Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional teams to align objectives and gain buy-in to approaches
- Demonstrated ability to present in high-level forums such as donor calls, meetings or conferences
- Demonstrated capacity strengthening experience, including developing and conducting trainings, mentorship, and coaching of government, local, and community partners.
- Demonstrated ability to ensure gender mainstreaming and social inclusion integration in project design, implementation, and M&E. Experience of designing with and for vulnerable populations highly desirable.
- Familiarity with social and behaviour change communication and social norms theories and approaches.
- Familiarity with formative research and monitoring and evaluation methodologies and approaches and ability to interpret data for decision making and inform programming and strategies.
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