Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Officer

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The opportunity

Plan International Nigeria, as part of its commitment to improving the lives of people in the country, especially in the communities we serve and ensuring that issues limiting the opportunity for people to live a life devoid of disaster is commencing a project on climate resilience project in Adamawa and Yobe States. The project designed as a four-year intervention, up scalable to 12 years, is expected to have a spiral effect in other parts of the country beyond the project implementation states. While the project will apply the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) to address flood incidence in the project states, it will also focus on engagement with relevant federal government agencies on flooding and other climate-related matters. Project actions at the states will serve as models for purposeful interventions that could be expanded to the national level. The project will focus on making communities more resilient to floods by supporting systems strengthening and providing relevant technical reinforcement to emergency management structures that need to be strengthened at the community level linked to LGA and the state levels up to the national level, ensuring coordination and purposeful collaboration among the agencies. There will also be a high level of community engagement, mobilisation of community structures, capacity building in organising, mobilisation, self-help, advocacy and policy influencing of the community structures.

The project is developed in line with our ambition to scale up our humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus in Nigeria by promoting strong coordination across humanitarian and development programming and influencing.

The Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Officer will under the supervision of the Project Coordinator provide relevant technical lead on actions directed at addressing social norms that drive environmental degradation, flood incidence and increase people’s vulnerability to climate change. S/He will lead in all of the efforts at achieving behaviour change among all stakeholders. The Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Officer will have the responsibility of mobilising resources, expertise, institutions and persons towards engendering a culture shift among duty bearers and right holders towards reduction of people’s vulnerability to flood disaster and towards achieving climate change adaptation and community resilience.

About You

We are looking for a person with background in community mobilisation and field experience in designing and implementing Social Behavioural Change and Communication-related projects. The desired candidate should also have knowledge of evidence-based, innovative, and practical solutions to communication challenges in fragile environments and rural communities. An Understanding of widely accepted formative research, pretesting, and monitoring and evaluation methodologies for effective demand generation, marketing and SBCC interventions.

He/she should possess at least 3years experience in similar role with Minimum of a Degree in Communication Studies or in any related field in the Social Sciences or the Humanities. Evidence of additional training and certification in Behaviour Change Communication and/or Social Norms Marketing will be an advantage. Membership of relevant professional bodies is desirable.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; JD – Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC)

Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter.

Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted. 

Location: Yola

Type of Role: Fixed Term 

Closing Date: 24th December, 2023

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We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

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A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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