Job Title:  Part-time Technical Specialist on Social Norms  

Organisation: Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC) is a not-for-profit regional Technical Assistance (TA) and Learning partner organisation that works with development agencies in the public and private sectors to promote impactful and innovative programming. IIDC builds capacities and facilitates learnings to enhance the efficacy of development programming in Africa to achieve sustainable and equitable development outcomes for all.

As part of its technical Assistance work in impactful programming, IIDC would like to strengthen its internal technical resources in the area of social norms programming. It is against this background that IIDC seeks CVs from competent and experienced experts in social norms programming to join its work on a part-time basis. If successful, the Technical specialists shall be engaged in assignments on part-time basis under different relevant projects.

Purpose of the Technical Specialist Social Norms

The purpose of this role is to technically contribute to the growth of the IIDC work portfolio on social norms through part time/assignment-based technical tool development, Technical specialist, technical coordination and facilitating technical learnings within IIDC, among partners, actors and relevant stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   From time to time the Technical Advisor will be deployed to undertake all or any of the following tasks.

Specific Tasks

• To design, test and roll out Social norms transformation approaches, technical packages and tools that can enable IIDC implementing partners to deliver impactful social norms transforming interventions.
• To train and mentor implementing partner staff in social norms transformation implementation
• To design and roll out measurement frameworks and tools for generating evidence on the impact of social norms interventions of implementing partners.
• To collaborate with IIDC’s local and international technical experts in Social Norms in advancing IIDC work in social norms intervention design, research/evidence generation and adaptation of interventions for greater impact and results.
• To contribute to the documentation and learning initiatives of IIDC in the areas of social norms programming and support the work of the East Africa Agency, Social and Gender Norms Learning Collaborative.

• A postgraduate training in the fields of social/behavioural sciences (Sociology, social anthropology, Psychology, development studies, behaviour change communication, and other relevant areas)
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated continuous working experience in development and/or implementing approaches for social norms interventions in the fields of public health, violence prevention, economic transformation, gender, etc.
• Strong background in research and social impact results measurements
• Experience in adaptation and scaling up of social transformation models and interventions.
• Experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder learning is desirable

Other attributes

• Excellent communicator both verbally and in writing
• Strong networking skills and capabilities
• Self-starter with agility and out-of-the-box thinker
• Attention to details

Disclaimer

• By submitting an EoI/cover letter and CV, the applicant grants permission for IIDC to use the documents to identify a suitable candidate for the assignment.
• IIDC reserves the right to review the applications as they come in without necessarily waiting for the deadline
• IIDC is not obligated to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.