Social and Behavior Change Specialist-GBV (x4)
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Global Communities
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 10+ years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Location: Tanzania
Overview:
Global Communities champions innovative solutions to complex challenges at the intersection of humanitarian assistance, sustainable development, and financial inclusion. We ensure our approaches are as dynamic and diverse as the communities we serve. We bring together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.
Responsibilities
- Lead the formative research and adaptation of Program P or Bandebereho to the Tanzanian context
- Ensure deep understanding of local contexts to inform the model adaptation and scale-up strategy
- Analyze social norms and behavior change pathways to inform adaptation of the Bandebereho/Program P model.
- Map and review other already available formative research, SBC materials, and community-based GBV prevention programs and research to inform a contextualized evidence-based pilot
- Lead the research on gender norms, masculinity, family dynamics, and GBV drivers in selected councils.
- Contribute to curriculum adaptation to ensure cultural relevance, inclusion, and contextual accuracy.
- Provide technical input on SBC strategies embedded within the intervention design to address harmful gender and social norms and behaviors contributing to GBV.
- Support pilot implementation through adaptive learning.
- Document insights and lessons to inform national validation and scale-up strategy.
- Support the documentation of experiences and lessons learnt from the project, including production of learning briefs, white papers, and general documentation
- Coordinate closely with government counterparts and local partners to ensure contextual ownership.
- Represent the project’s SBC work to external stakeholders via technical working groups and knowledge management processes as appropriate
- Other duties, as assigned
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant field such as gender studies, sociology, communication, and/or behavior change.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in development sector with at least 7 years of experience in designing, planning, and implementing evidence-based SBC approaches as part of relevant community/social mobilization or gender-based violence prevention programming
- Undertaken at least two (2) similar projects (GBV prevention, social norms change, large-scale gender programs, community-based interventions) in the last 10 years.
- Experience with the World Bank or other international donors, a plus
- Demonstrated experience in applying a range of SBC theories
- Strong background in interpersonal communication skills development, group facilitation, and SBC materials/tools development
- Understanding and familiarity of development communication challenges and solutions
- Strong understanding and perspective on gender
- Strong understanding of working with marginalized and vulnerable populations
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Willingness to travel as per requirement
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and implementation partners
- Excellent communication skills, fluent in the written and spoken English and Kiswahili language
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