Vacancy Announcement
Position Title: Policy Influence and Partnership Sr. Manager
Department/Program: Adolescent/Youth Family Planning
Level: AII
Reports to: Youth/Adolescent Family Planning Director
Based in: Addis Ababa
Duration of contract: Indefinite based on performance and availability of funds
Remuneration: As per organization pay scale plus other PSI/E staff benefits
Application Deadline: Dec 18th, 2018
Who we are
We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to be healthy by providing access to products and services that range from mosquito nets to HIV testing.
There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a motley group of entrepreneurs and professionals with a diverse range of backgrounds all the way from the medical industry to the music business, all with unique skills we bring to the job.
PSI/Ethiopia is an innovative network member of PSI with a team of more than 220 people passionate about marketing and dedicated to serving Sara! Since 2003, we have marketed products and led programs to prevent HIV, improve reproductive health including access to modern contraception for the 15-19 years old adolescents, and improve child health. We market condoms and increase condom use among people most at risk of HIV. We increase access to clean water by selling Wuha Agar, a water disinfectant. At PSI/Ethiopia we do more than simply provide products and services, we seek to create true change by making markets work for the poor to increase the use of critical health products and services that are available, affordable, and desirable to the most vulnerable Ethiopian people.
We design solution with and for SARA using Human Centered Design and put our end users at the center.
Join us!
We are looking for a passionate, dedicated and result driven Policy Influence and Partnership Sr. Manager who will be responsible for identifying partnership opportunities and lead the institutionalization process for SMART START scale-up within the Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus structure. SMART START is a package of solutions designed with and for adolescent modern contraception through a human-centered tailored design process. SMART START package implementation is at the scale-up phase also known as RISE (Roadmap to Integrate SMART START in Ethiopia). The Senior Manager will collaborate with GoE, PSI/Ethiopia (PSI/E) Youth/Adolescent Family Planning Director, other stakeholders, and PSI/E external relations team for the adoption of SMART START package within the existing health system.
Sounds like you? Read on!
Your contribution
You will work under the supervision of Youth/Adolescent Family Planning Director and will also work closely with Adolescent 360 team. More specifically, you will:
Your background, the basics
What would get us excited?