Communication & Advocacy Fellowship

Position Overview
Akros seeks a Communications Fellow to provide high-quality advocacy and communication support to our exciting work. The Communications Fellow will be based in Lusaka, Zambia with frequent field visits and will provide communication and documentation support to Akros. Akros has achieved success in bringing improved health to the communities in which they work – we seek to document our unique approaches, as well as share success stories with the global community. The communications fellow would be central to working with our in-country field staff to understand the nature of Akros’ work and achievements, and to document them in the most tangible, real-life and boots on the ground way possible. This will include frequent field visits to remote locations in Zambia, routine interactions with a variety of stakeholders including local traditional leaders, government staff, and partners. Akros has a list of successes and success story focuses and would work with the communication fellow to develop a targeted plan for the fellowship to capture, create, and disseminate these through a variety of channels.

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To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV with references to lmarkle@akros.com with “Application: [Position Title]” as the email’s subject line.

HMIS Senior Advisor (Evidence for Health)

Position Overview
The anticipated USAID Evidence for Health (EH) project will provide technical support to health offices, implementing partners, local partners and the Government of Zambia stakeholders as each strives to improve data systems and utilization. Akros is currently seeking candidates for several roles on this upcoming opportunity. We present the anticipated scope of work for each roles as follows.

The HMIS Senior Advisor directly reports to the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) in activity implementation and management. The Advisor will provide technical, strategic advice and programmatic direction for the development and implementation of HMIS aspects of the activity, for optimizing the generation, identification, collection, processing, storage, and dissemination of quality data and strategic information. The expert technical advice provided will be used by the COP to support the technical assistance, and political direction provided by the activity to key government and non-government partners.

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To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV with references to careers@akros.com with “Application: [Position Title]” as the email’s subject line.