Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of full-time work experience leading health and/or development project implementation, including 3+ years’ experience providing technical expertise on maternal health.
• Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage a fast-paced workload with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrate high-level oral and written communication skills (in English) including the capacity to communicate and work with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Possess knowledge of county-specific contexts and networks.
• Strong experience working with service delivery partners, government stakeholders, and community channels or structures.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop collaborative relationships and networks between government, nongovernment organizations and other relevant stakeholders.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, make independent decisions and to consistently demonstrate sound ethics and act with integrity.
• This role will be based in Monrovia, Liberia and candidates must be authorized to work in Liberia.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years with progressive technical experience in maternal health programs in Liberia.
• Experience developing, designing, implementing social behavior change communication interventions which reflect the priorities and local context county.
• Experience with supportive supervision, monitoring field activities, data capture, timely project reporting, and generating success stories.
• Ability to facilitate meetings effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to use technology to connect, share, exchange, update team members, and develop project documents.
• Proficient computer skills in MS word, MS excel, PowerPoint and other standard software

About ideas42

We’re a non-profit looking for deep insights into human behavior—into why people do what they do—and using that knowledge in ways that help improve lives, build better systems, and drive social change. Working globally, we reinvent the practices of institutions, and create better products and policies that can be scaled for maximum impact.

We also teach others, ultimately striving to generate lasting social impact and create a future where the universal application of behavioral science powers a world with optimal health, equitable wealth, and environments and systems that are sustainable and just for all.

For more than a decade, we’ve been at the forefront of applying behavioral science in the real world. And as we’ve developed our expertise, we’ve helped to define an entire field. Our efforts have so far extended to 40 countries as we’ve partnered with governments, foundations, NGOs, private enterprises, and a wide array of public institutions.

We value diversity and inclusion and are dedicated to growing our teams with people who have diverse experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We are committed to fair and unbiased hiring practices that support equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, gender, national origin, age, abilities, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Working with Us

We are a culture-first organization where rules or processes do not take precedence –people and their ability to make well-reasoned decisions do.You’ll find that our team members are deeply caring, wicked smart, and both tenacious and rigorous in their work.Our core values are at the heart of everything at ideas42:

• We live and breathe what we do. We look at everything through a BEHAVIORAL LENS.
• We take OWNERSHIP. We don’t just work at ideas42, we takes hared responsibility for it.
• We DO GOOD. We use our expertise to improve millions of lives and create a better world for all.
• We have fun. We let PLAYFULNESS inform the way we work and our approach to the world, helping to drive our creativity and improve our solutions.
• We live with a SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY. We approach our colleagues, partners and people whose lives we seek to improve with an attitude of selflessness and cooperation.
• We are TENACIOUS. We never take the easy route, but push to stretch the limits of what’s possible.
• We are RIGOROUS in how we think and how we tackle problems.

Compensation

We hope that you are excited by the opportunity to work with us. We are proud to offer a comprehensive and behaviorally designed package to support our team and allow us to focus on our work of solving tough social problems. Compensation is competitive within the NGO, Non-Profit and Social Impact fields. Exact pay is commensurate with experience.