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ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care. This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached. Radical collaboration with governments, the private sector and other partners strengthen our ability to scale and sustain these solutions. Our work increases access to quality health care for more than 79 million people in Africa. VillageReach in incorporated in Washington State and has offices in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

Summary

The government of Côte d'Ivoire (CDI) aims to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate from 22.5% in 2020 to 30% by 2030. However, many challenges remain, including the issue of availability of products at service delivery points. A pilot phase of free provision of FP services was launched in the Agneby-Tiassa region and demonstrated a significant increase in the use of FP services in a context of constant availability of contraceptive products, with a 52% growth in the number of new acceptants of FP methods from September 2021 to May 2023.

To replicate and extend the results of this pilot project to a larger number of health districts, particularly with regard to the availability of contraceptive products at service delivery points, VillageReach is recruiting a Communications Assistant to support this work.

VillageReach is seeking a qualified individual to fill the role of Communications Assistant. This position is based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with frequent travel within the country. The Communications Assistant will report to the Senior Program Manager and collaborate closely with the Communications Manager, as well as other team members at both the country and global level.

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

• Support solution activities implementation
• Support the organization of key events disseminating VillageReach’s solutions e.g. Launch ceremonies, campaigns, and Open days.
• Support relations with media to disseminate VillageReach’s impact on the field.
• Ensure documentation (written blogs or articles, audiovisual) of VillageReach’s impact on communities.
• Support the publication of VillageReach’s actions on various social media platforms e.g. X/Twitter, website, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
• Support the documentation of operational activities, approaches, and methodology, related to process and lessons learned by capturing; what process changes are made, results of those changes, reasons for changes, and impact of solutions on the community.
• Collect and draft storytelling of key learnings and the impact of VillageReach’s solutions.
• Support translation of English and French documents and materials for advocacy and communications purposes
• Participate in regular internal project meetings
• Compile and submit reports as needed.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Competencies:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done they are grouped into three strategic areas: Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results:

1. Risk Taking and Innovation

· Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.

2. Business Judgement

· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

3. Building Strong Teams

· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

4. Compelling Communication

· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.

5. Resilient Self Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment

· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

7. Influencing Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

8. Radical Partnership

· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset

· Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

· Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.