FHI 360 is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Technical Lead – Demand Side for the multi-year Empowering Women for Better Reproductive Health Outcomes (EMPOWER), Component 3: Strengthening access to Family Planning (FP) in the private sector. Component 3 of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-funded EMPOWER programme aims to contribute to creating a vibrant and self-sustaining private sector market for voluntary FP services in urban and semi-urban areas in Uganda. This position reports to the Team Leader and is based in Kampala, Uganda.

Provide technical leadership and expertise to design, implement, and scale-up SBC approaches and interventions and demand side solutions to increase sustainable demand for and utilization of FP services and products in the private sector in urban and semi-urban areas in Uganda.
Provide leadership to operationalize SBC approaches and interventions, ensuring application of best-in-class design and implementation tools, including human-centered design (HCD), behavioral insights, and communication approaches.
Ensure the programme’s SBC interventions address determinants of desired behaviors and employ evidence-based techniques to address priority individual, social, and structural determinants.
Lead the development and implementation of innovative and transformative national and subnational SBC interventions that are informed by behavioral models, evidence, and on-going research.
Support the design and implementation of formative research to inform SBC approaches and interventions and local solutions.
Contribute to the establishment of performance indicators and measures to monitor and record SBC intervention outcome and impact data.
Ensure the demand side efforts are coordinated and conducted in accordance with technical strategies.
Support knowledge management within the programme, including the capture and articulation of success stories, best practice and lessons learned.
Provide supervisory and operational oversight of supply side technical staff, consultants, and/or consortium partners to ensure that the programme meets intended goals, quality standards, and reporting requirements.
Ensure development and submission of high-quality technical deliverables—including workplans and required reporting to FCDO—are developed, submitted and approved on schedule and within budget parameters.
Represent the programme in key national and subnational forums; establish and maintain strategic relationships with host country government structures, the commercial health sector, and other programme partners to deliver against programme goals.
Support the Team Leader and coordinate with other programme staff and consultants to ensure that all areas of the programme maximize the use of available programme resources.