mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across ten sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower women living with HIV to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two, and created more than 11,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. For more, visit www.m2m.org.
Senior Public Health Instructional Designer
m2m is seeking a creative and innovative instructional designer to develop evidenced-based and scalable learning strategies to support our expanding programme portfolio. Your role will be to transform complex global health subject matter into effective learning content and materials of a professional standard for our peer mentors, implementing partners, and Country Offices, in alignment with organisational and county-specific priorities and programme strategies. Position is based in Cape Town.
Key Performance Areas:
Provide and develop high quality, evidenced-based, and innovative programme materials and strategies:
Support design, conduct, and results analysis for formative activities and needs assessments that inform the content of materials and strategies.
Develop evidenced-based programme materials, packages, and strategies to support m2m’s programme areas, using methods and technologies tailored for different audience types. This includes materials for delivery of in-person, distance, and self-directed service delivery to clients and training of field staff, training-of-trainers, and post-training support (job aids, SOPs, operation manuals).
Coordinates review with m2m Head Office, relevant Country Office staff, and external stakeholders, as needed, to ensure technical accuracy of content and appropriateness of materials.
Design and implement appropriate e-learning strategies /or delivery of e-learning package aligned with m2m’s programme portfolio and country-specific programme priorities.
Supports technical assistance to Country Offices:
Support in-country trainings and workshops (with international travel), as needed.
Assist with customized capacity development plans to address identified gaps for Country Offices.
Designs and maintains tools to support quality assurance:
Design and maintains “master” training calendar for Country Offices.
Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Masters Degree preferred ( or its International equivalent is required)
At least 7 years experience in instructional design for medium or large-scale public health and social development implementation projects, including multi-media material development for a variety of audiences (with NGO or non-profit experience preferred).
Advanced knowledge of instructional design best practices and emerging innovations for different audience types in public health settings across multiple technical areas ( RMNCAH, HIV, PMTCT, ECD)
Extensive Experience with planning and delivering training, including e-learning strategies /or delivery of e-learning packages.
Strong technical content knowledge of RMNCAH, PMTCT, SRH, and HIV programmes required
Competencies
Significant Experience with eLearning technologies and Learning Management System software
(Sharepoint, WordPress, Articulate Storyline, and/or Adobe Captivate, Moodle).
Advanced MS Word and PowerPoint skills essential, with skills in graphic design software (Adobe InDesign) an advantage.
Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Highly organized, reliable, with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Excellent verbal and written English language skills are essential.
Strong research and analytical skills.
mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women and previously disadvantaged people.
Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.
To Apply:
Interested applicants should apply for this position via https://m2m.org/who-we-are/careers/ by 20 August 2021.