Vacancy title:
Social Behaviour Change Advisor

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Healthcare]

Jobs at:
Pact

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 15 2025

Duty Station:
Zambia | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 29 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Advocacy, Social Mobilization and Communication (ASCM) and
  Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) evidence-based strategies and
  engagement with communities to implement SBC activities that address social and cultural
  barriers to the use of health services and adoption of healthy behaviors.
• Identify/develop and implement innovative and low-cost SBC / RCCE models and solutions
  that aim to increase personal agency and improve care-seeking behaviors, including
  innovations and implementation of effective social listening mechanisms at communitylevel.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support in engaging priority populations and
  community stakeholders in designing, planning, and tailoring SBC interventions that
  address drivers and barriers to the adoption of healthy behaviors such as the uptake of HTS
  services in the community.
• Lead advocacy, communication, and social mobilization for integrated health services.
• Work with the religious, traditional, and provincial leadership, key community stakeholder
  partners, MoH health promotions unit to plan community mobilization activities that
  generate demand for health services and help people adopt new healthy behaviors.
• Lead project strategies to routinely collaborate and engage with communities to
  implement SBC activities that address social and cultural barriers to the utilization of health
  services and adoption of healthy behaviors.
• Identify and develop program guidance for the implementation of innovative and low-cost
  SBC models and solutions that aim to increase personal agency and improve care-seeking
  behaviors.
• Coordinate targeted capacity building to improve client-provider interactions at the point
  of service delivery through high-quality training, mentoring, and technical assistance.
• Support in the management of project subgrantees under community services
• Lead the integration of appropriate, evidence-based mental health support services, as part
  of ensuring comprehensive client-centered HIV, TB/HIV, and MNCH services.
• Provide input into the SBC components of project workplans, reports, and budget, and
  participate in project level processes to ensure integration with other project components.
• Monitor the implementation of SBC activities, ensuring that SBC objectives, targets, and
  deliverables are achieved on time and on budget.
• Design and track indicators that will help to demonstrate that the project SBC interventions
  result in increased demand for products and services or prompt target audiences to adopt
  priority behaviors.
•  Liaise with key stakeholders, including MOH, civil society, private sector, and other projects,
  on SBC issues relevant to the project.
• Ensure adequate matrix management, collaboration, and coordination with the Ndola
  technical hub advisor team (Clinical services /SIA/Lab).
• Participate in technical working groups addressing SBC issues linked to the project.

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and
employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political
affiliation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, citizenship status, genetic
information, matriculation, family responsibilities, personal appearance, credit information,
tobacco use (except in the workplace), membership in an employee organization, or other
protected classifications or non-merit factors.

Basic Requirements

• Master’s Degree from an accredited university in health promotion, community health,
  project management, public health communications, social sciences, or a relevant field.
•  At least 6 years of experience in a senior leadership role in the health sector, with emphasis
  on leading SBC/ACSM strategies and implementation for HIV, TB/HIV, MNCH, and Mental
  Health
• Demonstrated competencies in designing and implementing SBC activities and community
  engagement processes for demand generation and uptake of HIV, TB, MNCH, and Mental
  Health services in large-scale, complex, international development assistance programs,
  preferably with PEPFAR-funded programs
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of Zambia’s SBC/community health structures and
  programming, as well as socio-cultural environment influencing drivers and barriers to
  service uptake and care seeking
•  Experience leading technical teams, achieving deliverables, and working under PEPFAR
  funded contracts preferred
• Knowledge and experience in the design and implementation of evidence-based behavior
  change interventions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in qualitative research including formative research and KAP surveys research.
• Training in HIV/AIDS and psycho-social counselling is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to manage subgrantees
• Demonstrated ability to work in complex environments, and work with and between
  different stakeholders
• Demonstrated skills in problem solving and consensus building.
• Strong professional written and oral communication skills in English and the ability to
  communicate in local language of the given province

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, citizenship status, genetic information, matriculation, family responsibilities, personal appearance, credit information, tobacco use (except in the workplace), membership in an employee organization, or other protected classifications or non-merit factors.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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