Health Specialist – Social and Behavioural Change for Polio

UNICEF Health Specialist leading evidence-based social and behavioural change interventions for Nigeria's polio eradication plan, generating vaccination demand, addressing hesitancy and missed children, supporting outbreak response and managing partnerships.

• Design social and behavioural change strategies to interrupt poliovirus transmission
• Generate demand for polio vaccination and routine immunisation
• Address vaccine hesitancy, refusals, missed children and behavioural barriers
• Manage and monitor social mobilisation between vaccination rounds
• Provide technical assistance during polio outbreak responses
• Build advocacy partnerships and coordinate government, community and programme stakeholders
• Evaluate communication interventions and use behavioural evidence for decisions

• Advanced university degree in social and behavioural change communication, public health, health promotion, community health, sociology, anthropology, psychology, biomedical sciences or a related field
• At least eight years of progressively responsible professional experience
• Experience designing and managing social and behavioural change or social communication programmes
• Experience in immunisation or polio programming
• Fluency in English

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