Job
location: Rwanda
Start Date: January 2012
Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) is a social enterprise whose mission is
to drive social and economic change through sustainable business development in emerging markets. SHE’s first initiative, SHE28, is addressing girls’ and women’s lack of access to affordable menstrual pads leading to missed school and/or work, and potentially harmful health outcomes.
SHE’s solution incorporates three components: education, advocacy, and
business development. Education equips all members of the community with
essential information about reproductive, sexual health and menstrual and
hygiene management. Advocacy mitigates the taboo of menstruation causing
improved health status and positive policy change. This, coupled with helping
local entrepreneurs launch distribution and small-scale pad manufacturing
businesses, ensures long-term sustainability increasing education, health,
economic growth, and dignity.
Job Description: Health and Hygiene Education and Advocacy Manager
To help lead the strategy and implementation of health and hygiene (HH)
education and advocacy campaign in a timely, high quality manner in Rwanda.
- Work with HH team members to
ensure HH manager is delivering education content in timely, high
quality way
- Research health and hygiene
education/advocacy campaign best practices around the world
- Collect data on potential negative
outcomes without girls and womens
- access to health and hygiene
education and affordable menstrual products.
- Present evidence and work with
Parliament members to instigate vote to get rid of pad tax
- Work with Ministry of Health and
Education to ensure essential health and
- hygiene content is in national
manuals
- Assess potential future
long-term partnerships using a mobile-based platform for health and
hygiene education and advocacy dissemination
- Actively participate in
high-level meetings with diverse stakeholders as well as
- community members in more rural
areas
- Work with international team
members providing technical expertise and work with Rwandan team members
to incorporate this technical support in HH education
- Create evidence based case study
on tax policies on menstrual pads; Work with Parliamentarians to get rid
of tax of pads.
Education and Training
- Knowledge of and interest in
public health
- Results focused using fact based
decision-making.
- Self-starter, entrepreneurial
and positive and proactive, taking ownership of
- all issues.
- The ability to work under
pressure, and tight timescales while being a team
- player.
- Creative and innovative approach
to problem solving.
- Have an eye for detail
- Must have good communication
skills and be able to present both spoken and
- written reports, translate (if
need be) with team, with fluency in English and
- Kinyarwandan
To Apply: Submit resume, cover letter, and references to:
hresources@sheinnovates.com
Include HH Education and Advocacy in the subject line by January 8, 2012.
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