🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ Care International – 2 Positions

Care International is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Behavioural Change and Communications Sales Officer
2.) Wash Manager

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Behavioural Change and Communications Sales Officer

Background

CARE seeks a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live in dignity and security. CARE places a particular emphasis on women and girls, their dignity, and empowerment to lead their communities out of poverty. In 2020, CARE worked in 104 countries, reaching 90 million people through more than 1,300 programs, with an annual budget of $650 million. Every single one of those 90 million people has a story of resilience, community, strength, and hope—all things that bind us together, across every corner of the globe.

In Sierra Leone, CARE staff and partners work tirelessly to save lives, and address the root causes of poverty and social injustice through advocacy, partnerships, system strengthening, and programming in impact areas of Gender Equality, Empowering Women and Girls, Humanitarian Assistance, and Right to Food, Nutrition, and Water, Right to Health, Women’s Economic Justice and Climate Justice.

Opportunity

CARE Sierra Leone is seeking one talented and motivated Behavioral Change and Communication (BCC) Sales Officer who will support our sub-offices located in Makeni, and Bo and will provide a balance on the existing male-branded Protector Plus condom programming and other commodities by sustaining products choice at the market level, and increase access, availability and affordability of branded condoms and other health products among program target groups.

As part of the program implementation team, the BCC Officers will ensure high quality, and visibility of work using the multi-level tool for promoting and sustaining risk reduction methods among most at-risk populations. These activities will be carried out through a product distribution chain of wholesalers and retailers, community-based distributors such as the Community Health Workers ( CHW’s), and other customer engagement programs that would result in higher sales.

The BCC Sales Officers will recruit wholesalers and retailers in areas populated by target groups and work directly with them to provide technical support for product visibility at the field level, especially in areas of ‘social hot spots’, and implement the condom and other health products sales plan.

The key responsibilities of the Behavioral, Change, and Communication Sales Officer:

• Uphold customer care relationships through personal selling principles : Maintain excellent customer relationships and pursue new sales opportunities. Ensure that distribution partners (wholesalers, retailers, and other partners) are well informed about product characteristics and use in family planning and HIV prevention. Make condom social marketing activities visible in operational districts and chiefdoms.
• Participate in the design of IEC/BCC initiatives and interventions : Work with the BCC Sales Coordinator and the Social Marketing and Operations Program Manager to design and develop initiatives for areas of operation and program implementation. Establish functional outlets within areas of social hot spots and maintain an accurate database.
•     Identify capacity gaps and develop institutional training for community peer educators: With support from the BCC Coordinator and the Social Marketing and Operations Program Manager, develop relatable and sustainable training for peer educators in assigned areas so they can successfully partner in mobilizing the community to identify and act on SRHR issues affecting said community.

To be successful in this role you will:

Possess experience and education in Social Marketing . Have a bachelor’s degree in marketing, Public Health, or a related field with at least three years of development experience, with significant knowledge and experience in customer care, marketing, and family planning. Experience working with NGOs is an added advantage.

Possess the communication and negotiating skills needed to attain and work with multiple partners, teams, and stakeholders and manage external relationships. Initiate and develop partnerships with wholesalers and retailers in assigned operational areas and possess the ability to maintain these partnerships. Have the ability and communication skills needed to facilitate training, and to clearly present on all issues.

Be confident, strategic, agile, and adaptable. Can quickly learn CARE systems, processes, and procedures and adapt local practices to global standards. Possess a strong knowledge of Social Marketing concepts with the ability to strategically apply practical solutions. Adopt and adapt the sales skills necessary to recruit wholesalers and retailers.

Understand Gender Dynamics. You must have a deep understanding of gender dynamics in Sierra Leone and how energy context.

Possess Business Acumen/Insight . Apply demonstrated knowledge of the business and CARE Sierra Leone’s marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Have the negotiation skills to influence internal and external partners, with the ability to be a team player.

Know your systems. Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and Word and good skills at using financial software applications.

We will be reviewing resumes for these roles on a continuous basis until the position is filled. If you are selected as a candidate, a member of our team will reach out to you to start the recruitment process. Thank you for your interest in CARE Sierra Leone.

There are individuals who may use CARE’s name and trademark in emails and on websites in an attempt to solicit fees from interested job-seekers. Some examples of these fees are placement fees or immigration processing fees. CARE does not use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an up-front fee of any kind. Occasionally, CARE does employ recruiting or placement agencies to help us identify candidates for specific employment within CARE. If you’re contacted by a legitimate recruiting or placement agency, there should be no charge to you. If you suspect that you have been a victim of fraud from someone purporting to be CARE, please contact us at [email protected].

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here.

Starting salaries are based on internal equity, candidate experience, and the cost of labor where the job is based. Salaries listed only apply to jobs based in the US.

HOW TO APPLY :

FOLLOW LINK BELOW ,

https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/applyRequisition?org=CAREUSA&cws=52&rid=6643

2.) Wash Manager

CARE seeks a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live in dignity and security. CARE places a particular emphasis on women and girls, their dignity, and empowerment to lead their communities out of poverty. In 2020, CARE worked in 104 countries, reaching 90 million people through more than 1,300 programs, with an annual budget of $650 million. Every single one of those 90 million people has a story of resilience, community, strength, and hope—all things that bind us together, across every corner of the globe.

In Sierra Leone, CARE staff and partners work tirelessly to save lives and address the root causes of poverty and social injustice through advocacy, partnerships, system strengthening, and programming in impact areas of Gender Equality, Empowering Women and Girls, Humanitarian Assistance, Rights to Food, Nutrition, and Water, Right to Health, Women’s Economic Justice and Climate Justice.

Opportunity

CARE Sierra Leone is seeking a talented visionary to assume the role of a WASH and infrastructure Manager to help build resilience to climatic challenges by promoting climate and environmentally appropriate management of ecosystems that reduce adequate and sustainable supply to clean water. Also, S/he will be responsible for ensuring that the Health project activities program works in accordance with CARE regulations, norms, and standards in order to ensure high program quality.

The person in this role will mentor and coach the WASH Officers in all technical aspects supporting the WASH activities for effective emergency response including WASH facilities for communities and Health care facilities. S/he will lead the establishment of a strong Monitoring and Evaluation System and will assist the program team (WASH Officers) to ensure high-quality implementation is put in place.

This role will report directly to the project Heath Project Director, with dotted lines to the Assistant Country Director for Programs.

The key responsibilities of the WASH Manager:

• Ensure professional standards of work are maintained and projects are completed to time and budget: To complete post-excavation analysis and reporting on projects undertaken in a timely manner to the highest professional standard. To help develop methods of project initiation, execution, and delivery.
• Implementation of activities: Provide technical guidance and supervision of all WASH and infrastructure interventions and ensure quality control in all stages of the construction works. Ensure lessons learned are documented, shared, and reflected in project planning and decision-making including documentation of significant change stories.
• Compliance agreement with CARE standard : Develop a compliance monitoring plan such as checklists to track compliance in close consultation with the project Director to Deliver program quality standard implementation. Support monitoring of staff and communities’ compliance to safeguarding principles on protection against sexual harassment exploitation and abuse (PHSEA) at all levels.

To be successful in this role you will:

Possess experience and education in Project :  You must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering , or other related discipline experience, bringing with you at least 3 years of experience as a WASH Manager or similar experiences and a thorough knowledge of project practices.

Have communication and reporting skills needed to deliver and conduct both oral and written training sessions for small, medium, and large-sized groups. Be able to tell the story and know when it’s applicable to convert data to conversation.

Be a problem solver and critical thinker. You must be able to clearly identify and define the different levels of problem-solving and resolution. Think holistically with a vision and use your analytics and reporting skills.

Be a leader with influence. Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and negotiation skills with internal and external partners with the ability to be a team player.

Know your systems . Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and Word and good skills at using Engineering tools and software applications (PeopleSoft experience will be preferred).

Competencies.

Integrity and Accountability

Commitment

Diversity and Respect

We will be reviewing resumes for these roles on a continuous basis until the position is filled. If you are selected as a candidate, a member of our team will reach out to you to start the recruitment process. Thank you for your interest in CARE Sierra Leone.

There are individuals who may use CARE’s name and trademark in emails and on websites in an attempt to solicit fees from interested job-seekers. Some examples of these fees are placement fees or immigration processing fees. CARE does not use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an up-front fee of any kind. Occasionally, CARE does employ recruiting or placement agencies to help us identify candidates for specific employment within CARE. If you’re contacted by a legitimate recruiting or placement agency, there should be no charge to you. If you suspect that you have been a victim of fraud from someone purporting to be CARE, please contact us at [email protected].

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here.

Starting salaries are based on internal equity, candidate experience, and the cost of labor where the job is based. Salaries listed only apply to jobs based in the US.

HOW TO APPLY :

FOLLOW LINK BELOW ,

https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/applyRequisition?org=CAREUSA&cws=52&rid=6642