Communications Consultant for PROPEL Health Kenya at Palladium International

Project Overview:

• In Kenya, Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded PROPEL Health project to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH) with a lens to enable economic empowerment, positive youth development. Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

Scope of Work: 

• PROPEL Health Kenya is seeking to recruit a consultant to support communication and knowledge management function. The consultant will work closely with the PROPEL Health Kenya team. The consultant must have professional and specific experience related to communications and knowledge management.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support the technical lead for MEL on drafting, reviewing, and editing the PROPEL Health project quarterly reports and submit for approval (internal)
• Review and edit project PowerPoint presentations and other communication materials.
• Review and edit project reports under development, for USAID and beneficiary approval. 
• Develop communications tools (nuggets, policy briefs, blogs, success stories) as necessary.
• Support PROPEL Health staff to adhere to the project’s Branding & Marking plan, including using project templates and obtaining USAID Mission concurrence for branding exceptions when necessary. 

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in communication studies or Journalism/mass communication is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications studies, linguistics, journalism, mass communication or related field is required.
• At least 8 years’ experience in communication and knowledge management with a USAID-funded organization in the health sector is required.
• Experience in preparation of routine USAID reports.
• At least 8 years’ experience reviewing and editing reports and other documents for USAID and government approval.

Evaluation Criteria: 

Applications will be evaluated based on below evaluation criteria:

• Technical (50%)
  • At least 8 years’ experience in communication and knowledge management with a USAID-funded organization in the health sector is required.
  • Experience in preparation of routine USAID reports.
  • At least 8 years’ experience reviewing and editing reports and other documents for USAID and government approval.
• Education (30%)
  • Master’s degree in communication studies or Journalism/mass communication is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in communications studies, linguistics, journalism, mass communication or related field is required.
• Costs (20%)
  • Proposed daily rate or deliverable costs reasonable and realistic.