Position: Community SBC Consultant

About Americares Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries, including the United States, with life-changinghealthprograms, medicine, and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Location: Buchanan, Grand Bassa County
Length: 6 months
Employment Type: Consultancy – deliverable based
Department: Programs
Reports To: The Consultant will be supervised in partnership with the Senior RMNCAH Officer and Program Director.

Background

Americares Liberia has been strengthening its social and behavior change (SBC) activities within its maternal and newborn health projects. A core activity has been mobilizing trained traditional midwives (TTMs). Additionally, Americares piloted the Facility Based Delivery solution set developed by USAID Breakthrough ACTION/Liberia. Americares Liberia has piloted the solution set at six facilities and aims to build its monitoring systems and linkages for TTMs within the community health system, in line with previous consultancy recommendations, for those sites as well as rolling out to an additional six facilities for the next phase of implementing the Facility-Based Delivery solution set.

Scope of Work

Under the direction of the Program Director and relevant program staff, the Community SBC consultant will support the implementation of community-level activities for the six pilot sites in Americares Liberia’s Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Adolescent, and Child Health project in Grand Bassa County. This involves creating linkages within the community health structures, rolling out the next phase, and monitoring community components of the Facility-Based Delivery solution set.

Key Activities: The Community Engagement Officer will carry out a variety of tasks, including:
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Health Facility Development Committee (HFDC) assessment and planning to ensure its functionalities
Attend community health structures meetings and report back; Liaise with community partners (Last Mile Health)/Community Health Department Director (CHDD) at the county level
Support linkages between Americares supported Trained Traditional Midwives (TTMs) and Community Health Services Supervisor (CHSS)/Community Health Assistants (CHAs)/health facilities – including developing a work plan and providing support to ensure the linkages between the TTMs, CHAs, CHSS, and healthcare services providers are adequately established.
Lead the roll-out of the facility-based delivery solution set
Plan with team for roll out completed including strengthened community transportation plan component
Conduct rollout and submit the report
Follow up on roll out down to the community level for the community transportation plans
Monitoring of community transportation plans
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Roll out and monitor community transportation plans from the facility-based delivery (FBD) solution set.
Work with the M/E officer, clinical officer, and CHT/DHT teams to develop a plan to strengthen TTM monitoring including facility-based delivery/delivery logistic planner monitoring;
Conduct community-level monitoring of TTM activities (general and FBD solution set)
Deliverables Assessment, report, and action plan for community linkages (between TTMs, CHAs, CHSS, Health Facility Development Committee (HFDC))
FBD solution set rollout completed with the report submitted
Plan with team for roll out completed including strengthened community transportation plan component
Conduct rollout and submit the report
Follow up on roll out down to the community level for the community transportation plans
Monitoring of community transportation plans
Monitoring plan for community activities (TTMs and community transportation plans) executed and submitted with monthly monitoring report for the length of the consultancy and a final monitoring report with recommended next steps included
Handover monitoring plans to Americares staff for continuity of program activities including any training as needed.

Core Americares Responsibilities

Foster Americares values of responsiveness, results orientation, collaboration, efficiency, and integrity
Coach, support, and develop staff to increase individual and team effectiveness
Develop and manage the implementation of plans to increase team operating performance, including SOPs and other efficiency initiatives

AMERICARES CORE VALUES:

1. Effectively and Responsibly, Putting Plan into Practice

2.We Embed Ethics and Equity in Our Work and Workplace

3.We Are We Ask and Listen to Create Sustainable Solutions for A Healthier Tomorrow

4.We Create a Global Community Treating People as They Want to Be Treated

5.We Respond Better Together, Partnership Is at Our Core

6.We Commit to Quality, Growth, And Improving to Ensure individuals and Communities Thrive