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Are you ready to use your marketing expertise to make an impact? Would you enjoy being the driving force behind designing and implementing a marketing strategy focused on value creation? You could be our next Social Behavior Change Manager!

About Tiko

Tiko is an African nonprofit committed to strengthening the potential and resilience of adolescent girls across Africa. We address the “Triple Threat” of unintended pregnancy, HIV infection, and sexual and gender-based violence by building local health ecosystems that provide stigma-free, no-cost, quality-assured services.

Our model brings together key local actors: community-based organizations (CBO) with peer mobilisers who act as health companions to girls; public and private health clinics that deliver care; and retail partners that redeem Tiko Miles -our behaviour-change incentive programme that rewards service uptake and feedback.

We invest in partners by strengthening CBO capacity, training frontline workers and providers, supporting clinic quality improvement, and compensating partners based on performance. Our technology platform connects all actors by enabling referrals, verifying service delivery, facilitating payments, and generating real-time data.

Tiko operates in six countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Nigeria, with additional offices in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. For a clear overview of our work, we recommend watching this short video.

Globally, our team consists of +250 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly.

We welcome applicants based in Abuja, Nigeria.

The Job

In this maternity coverage role, you will work with Tiko teams to ensure that our social behavior change communication interventions are delivered in a relevant, meaningful and effective way. You’ll do this, by:

• Developing and implementing state of art Social and behavior changes interventions in support of Tiko’s health programs focusing on adolescents and young persons.
• Developing Tiko platform marketing and communications strategy; bringing insights about our users, their needs, motivations, and their online and offline behavior.
• Translating Tiko's social behavior changes and marketing strategies into actionable plans and activities within country context to drive demand for Tiko platform membership and services uptake - this will include developing and executing content, brand materials, social media engagement, and continuous effective messages.
• Effectively designing tailor made SBC interventions that enhance our value proposition to our key partners i.e CBOs, mobilizers, providers, retailers and MOH partners.
• Employing a data driven approach to field operations by driving and using research and insights from the market to continuously improve demand generation and behavior change among Tiko’s target audiences and communities we work in.
• Identifying strategic SBC partnerships and branding opportunities that will put Tiko at the forefront of our target audience’s mind and influence desire service uptake and behavior change.
• Provide oversight and management of the SBC staff where applicable.
• Providing Programmatic oversight to local partner organizations implementing SBC and marketing activities in support of Tiko offerings.
• Engaged and collaborated with line government ministries and other partners on matters sbc and marketing as guided by country leadership.
  
  

About You

You think outside of the box and collaborate well with others. You have strong interpersonal skills and strong consultative skills. You can give your team the structure and guidance to help them excel by themselves.

Requirements

• Relevant university qualification in social behavior change, health communication, Marketing, community development, Business Management, or similar
• Proven experience in communication, marketing, community development with a track record of managing and growing marketing strategies, brands, influencing social and behavioral change, with including at least 3 years of experience playing any of the above roles.
• Demonstrated ability in setting strategic marketing directions and executing plans independently
• Strong experience in leading agency relationships, with the capability to articulate campaign results and insights.
  
• You are immediately available.

The Rewards

The monthly salary bracket for this position is ₦2,592,489 - ₦3,888,733 gross per month. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.

The details

Interested? Click apply now below! Want more information? Check out our website or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click Tiko - Privacy notice for the recruitment process 2025.pdf to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.