Health Information, Promotion & Social Marketing Officer

Role Summary

Are you passionate about using data, community engagement, and communication to improve lives? Join PDCS as a Health Information, Promotion & Social Marketing Officer and play a key role in strengthening healthcare delivery and expanding access to essential services. This is a dynamic, field-based role where you will combine data-driven decision-making, community outreach, and social marketing to improve health outcomes. You will contribute directly to increasing awareness, visibility, and uptake of PDCS services while supporting both clinical care and public health interventions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Clinical & Service Delivery

· Participate in clinical activities as scheduled or assigned, including triage, injection services, minor procedures, emergency care, outpatient support, and health screening.

· Support outreach services, community mobilization campaigns, and mobile clinic operations.

· Assist facility teams during immunization campaigns, mass screenings, mobile health services, and emergency response efforts.

2. Health Information & HMIS

· Collect, verify, and compile routine health data using DHIS2, eCHIS, and other approved systems.

· Maintain accurate HMIS records and ensure timely weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting.

· Conduct Data Quality Assessments (DQA) and mentor health workers on data quality (completeness, accuracy, timeliness).

· Analyze routine data and develop summary reports, dashboards, and presentations for program decision‑making.

· Support data use at activities facility and community levels.

3. Health Promotion & Community Engagement

· Conduct community health education on maternal health, NCDs, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, and disease prevention.

· Mobilize communities for screening activities, outreach programs, and awareness campaigns in collaboration with HEWs and local community structures.

· Develop and disseminate IEC/BCC materials tailored to the needs of diverse audiences.

· Lead school, youth, women’s group, and community health sessions.

· Support risk communication and health promotion messaging during disease outbreaks or emergencies.

4. Social Marketing & SBCC

· Design and implement social marketing strategies to increase demand and uptake of PDCS services.

· Tailor messages using behavioral insights, segmentation, and community feedback.

· Ensure proper branding, visibility, and messaging consistency across all PDCS communication materials.

· Collaborate with radio stations, media outlets, and local influencers for message dissemination.

· Organize outreach events, promotional roadshows, and community health fairs.

· Collect community feedback to refine strategies and improve messaging effectiveness.

5. Documentation & Coordination

· Document success stories, best practices, lessons learned, and routine program reports.

· Participate in joint supervision, coordination platforms, and PDCS departmental review sessions.

· Coordinate with Woreda Health Offices, NGOs, community leaders, HEWs, and media partners to strengthen program integration and visibility.

· Maintain organized archives of communication materials, activity reports, and HMIS products.

Travel Requirements

Frequent travel within Assosa town and surrounding kebeles for community engagement, facility meetings, outreach activities, and data quality checks.

· Occasional travel to other woredas in Benishangul-Gumuz region for training, campaigns, clinical support, or emergency response.

· Willingness and ability to work in remote or hard‑to‑reach field locations, as necessary.

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in public health, Nursing, Health Promotion, Health Informatics, or a related health or communication field.

· Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in community health, HMIS, health promotion, SBCC, or program implementation.

· Experience with DHIS2/eCHIS and strong data analysis skills preferred.

· Effective communication, presentation, mobilization, and community engagement skills.

· Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.