Social & Behavior Change Specialist (RCCE), P-4, TA (6 months), #00138149at UNICEF Bangladesh

The RCCE Specialist will lead risk communication and community engagement for BVD/Ebola preparedness and response across Yambio Field Office's high-risk counties (Yambio, Tambura, Maridi and surrounding areas), ensuring that communities have access to accurate, timely information; that two-way feedback and rumour-management mechanisms function and are acted on; and that community actors are active partners in surveillance, prevention and response, rather than passive recipients of messaging.

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Field Office, Yambio, and with a matrix reporting relationship for technical guidance to the Chief of Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Emergency Health, UNICEF South Sudan Country Office and in close collaboration with Health, WASH, Education and Child Protection colleagues, the National Public Health Institute (NPHI), the state Ministry of Health, WHO, and other partners, the RCCE Specialist will lead BVD/Ebola RCCE planning and delivery, strengthen the hotline and community based surveillance feedback loops, and build the capacity of frontline workers and volunteers and government counterparts to strengthen community structures/platforms and networks for disease outbreak preparedness; this includes travel to high-risk counties and points of entry.