Behavior Change - Marketing Advisor (USAID Indonesia)

VACANCY - in C-CHANGE Program

Position: Behavior Change - Marketing Advisor

Supervisor: Country Director

CV submission: December 26, 2010

Duration of Assignment: up to 100 working days between January and August,
2011

Consultant Rate: Commensurate with experience and past history
results

Project summary:

USAID Indonesia awarded AED (Academy for Educational Development) a field
support grant through the C-CHANGE (Communication for Change) program in
Indonesia. The C-CHANGE program in Indonesia aims to ensure that the new
diarrhea treatment for children under five using ORS/Oralit and ZINC is
sustainable and at scale in Indonesia.

In Indonesia, zinc has been adopted by KemenKes for the treatment of
childhood diarrhea. By July 2010 ten pharmaceutical companies marketed
various zinc products in the market. ZINC product is promoted through health
professionals such as to doctor and midwives by the pharmaceutical
companies. One of the C-Change key goals is to help zinc producing companies
to increase marketing efforts to General Practitioners (GP) and Midwives in
order to ensure ZINC and ORS/Oralit prescription for childhood diarrhea

Position summary:

This Behavior Change - Marketing Advisor is a Consultant position. He/she is
an experienced person in marketing health products to health professionals.
The BC- Marketing Advisor will work closely with zinc partners, doctor
organizations, midwives organizations and other necessary stakeholders. This
position will work closely with the Country Director to achieve the goals of
ensuring nationwide uptake of zinc by health professionals

Scope of Work:

a) Discuss and develop plans with zinc manufacturing partners,
including agreed promotional strategies, action steps, timing and proposed
budget for activities aimed at increasing zinc prescriptions

b) Help implement zinc partners' strategies by providing necessary
technical support e.g. Initiate and coordinate meetings with partners, key
opinion leaders and professional associations

c) Visit health professionals in the field to assess implementation
progress and recommend improvement in activities.

d) Monitor, write and submit report on timely basis, and a summary
report at the end of the assignment.

Education:

Degree in Communication, Marketing Public Health, or other relevant field.

Experience:

a) Marketing management experience with pharmaceutical companies,
experience in Ethical marketing is plus point

b) Experience developing successful promotional strategies and material

c) Familiarity and good relationship with the health professional
associations, i.e.: IDI, IBI and others

d) Proven experience of result-oriented and timely delivery of
marketing activities

e) Demonstrated ability to initiate innovative ideas, approaches and
activities in affecting behavior of target audience

Skills:

a. Flexibility, "can do" attitude - including influencing outputs
through others

b. Proven fluency in spoken and written English and ability to
communicate and write in bahasa Indonesia are a must

c. Able to operate computer especially in Word, Powerpoint, Excel,
etc.

Mandatory:

Has his/her own electronic devices such as laptop, hand phone for mobile
operation.

This job will require at least 3 references from previous supervisors/
companies/ clients.

If your profile match with our scope of work and if you are interested with
the position, please send CV with recent picture and covering letter in
soft copy file - not bigger than 750 KB, by December 26, 2010 to
aed.cchange.indonesia@gmail.com Please do mention the title of the position
applied: "Behavior Change - Marketing Advisor".

All applications will be treated confidentially, only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.

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