Senior Demand Promotion for Immunization ConsultantNew

Provides technical support to increase demand, acceptance and equitable uptake of routine and newly introduced vaccines in Ethiopia. The office-based consultant coordinates immunization communication partners, strengthens social listening and community engagement, guides evidence-based social and behaviour change interventions, and documents results for UNICEF, Ministry of Health and stakeholders.

• Support the Ministry of Health Immunization Service Desk and Communication Technical Working Group to design and implement demand-promotion strategies
• Coordinate technical-working-group meetings, agendas, minutes and follow-up actions with government and partners
• Develop, operationalize and monitor national immunization demand-promotion strategies using behavioural insights and human-centered design
• Support implementation and evaluation of demand-promotion and risk-communication interventions for zero-dose and under-immunized communities
• Develop and pre-test multi-channel communication materials and support their subnational contextualization and translation
• Strengthen social listening and public-opinion monitoring on misinformation, adverse-event concerns and vaccine media coverage
• Build capacity of health workers, social mobilizers, media professionals and hotline operators
• Document best practices and prepare technical reports and deliverables for UNICEF and the Ministry of Health

• Advanced university degree in social science, public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communication for development or social and behavioural change communication
• Minimum seven years of relevant social and behaviour change or immunization demand-promotion experience at national or federal level
• In-depth understanding of Ethiopian communities and national immunization demand-promotion stakeholders
• Fluent English and Amharic
• Open to Ethiopian nationals only

• Experience addressing service-delivery, gender and system-level barriers to immunization uptake

• Immunization Demand Promotion
• Social and Behaviour Change
• Community Engagement
• Social Listening
• Risk Communication
• Human-Centered Design
• Behavioural Insights
• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Gavi 6.0
• BeSD

• Office-based consultancy for 9 months
• Applicants must submit a TMS profile, CV, cover letter, financial proposal, technical proposal and one writing sample of up to 10 pages
• The financial proposal must use the linked template