Senior Advisor I, Behavior Science
Location: Washington DC
Location type: Hybrid – Required to work on site a minimum of 2 days per week
Reports to: Director, HIV/TB/Viral Hepatitis
*If you are unsure if you are in an eligible location, please visit our Career page for more details.

Welcome to PSI!
PSI is a network of locally rooted, globally connected organizations working to achieve consumer-powered healthcare — people-centered health systems that ensure quality, affordable care wherever and whenever it is needed. Our origins in sexual and reproductive health have grown into a broader mission. Today, we work with the public and private sectors as well as local communities, prioritizing people’s voice and choice and developing solutions to meet their essential health needs. Over the past five decades, we have helped push boundaries, break taboos, set trends, and develop innovative solutions to complex global health challenges.

Do you want to join PSI to help make it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire? Read on!

Join us!

PSI seeks a Senior SBCC Advisor to lead a five-year initiative focused on providing person-centered, evidence-based HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services. This person will oversee the scale-up of SBCC services across the consortium who will provide technical and thought leadership on emerging strategic practices, trends, and insights across a single or multiple disciplines to inform organizational direction and provide leadership of project SBCC workstreams. Contribute to executing PSI’s strategy by identifying and integrating appropriate concepts into PSI’s programming through the development of thought leadership, sharing, and technical guidance. Independently maintain relationships with high-level internal stakeholders and external partners. Draw insights from the implementation of strategic initiatives and projects at PSI identifying and elevating insights for internal and external use and the development of global goods. Develop guidance and/or methods to uncover insights and translate them into quality program design. Maintain relationships with relevant global communities of practice to elevate PSI’s profile and identify emerging trends.

The Senior Advisor will be responsible for leading successful implementation of SBCC workstreams throughout the project lifecycle from start-up to close-out. They will be accountable for the delivery of all aspects of SBCC activities and oversight and supervision of project staff. They will lead SBCC strategy development, formative research and work planning and supervise the team responsible for implementation. The Advisor will serve as a subject matter expert internally and represent the project externally with donors, partners, and other stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Insights: Monitor and shape practices and trends affecting the global project. Maintain an up-to-date understanding of PSI’s evolving behavior science portfolio of projects. May design, execute, and evaluate PSI’s strategic programming.
• Thought Leadership: Identify and curate best practice strategic approaches for programmatic positioning at all levels of the organization and across consortium partners. Identify strategic opportunities to incorporate and implement state-of-the-art practices within project activities.
• Capacity Building: Strategically plan approaches for and development of materials for capacity building of project staff at all appropriate levels, infusing behavior science capacity across the project consortium.
• Representation: Represent relevant strategic discipline to all relevant internal and external PSI stakeholders. Speak with authority on strategic discipline, including positioning PSI’s work appropriately in sensitive conversations.
• Fundraising: Identify strategic fundraising opportunities and incorporate state-of-the-art strategic approaches to PSI fundraising efforts.
• Program Management: Lead the execution of complex projects with short, medium, and long-term objectives.
  • Develop behavior science strategic priorities in collaboration with project senior management team. Develop and oversee workplans and budgets to execute strategic priorities. Monitor deliverables and progress, course correcting when necessary. Drive the utilization of evidence-based tools, innovations and best-practices to improve the project’s performance
• Embody PSI’s values: Measurement, Pragmatism, Honesty, Trust, Collaboration, and Commitment.
• 10-25% international travel

Time percentages listed above are not exact. They are estimates and may change. This is also not an exhaustive list of all tasks that an incumbent is expected to perform but is instead a summary of the primary responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be asked to perform duties not included above. PSI reserves the right to revise job profiles at any time based on changes to the required job responsibilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a relevant field.
• Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a relevant field preferred.
• At least 10 years of high-impact, related experience. Equivalent combination of related education and experience may be substituted.
• Passion for driving strategic change in the interest of improved global health outcomes.
• Experience working in an international context.
• Demonstrate advanced technical knowledge in relevant strategic area. Ability to contribute to thought leadership in relevant strategic area.
• Ability to contribute to the internal and external body of evidence in relevant technical area.
• Ability to provide technical assistance to PSI network.
• Ability to share knowledge internally and externally with global communities of practice; represents PSI externally.
• Ability to solve problems with creativity and analyze complex issues using in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Ability to operate with minimal supervision and considerable latitude for independent judgement to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external colleagues. Able to work as a member of a team and independently.
• Ability to lead development of technical approach for proposals and identify potential new business opportunities.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability.
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with colleagues.
• In-depth familiarity with USAID including USAID’s technical priorities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365. Familiarity with a quantitative or qualitative data analysis program preferred.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. Proficiency in a relevant language other than English preferred.
• Cultural humility and respect.

We know that a long list of requirements may be discouraging, but don’t let imposter syndrome or the confidence gap get in the way of you applying — we’d love to hear from you.

Why Work at PSI?
PSI’s work is about enabling families to live happy and healthy lives—we think this should apply to our employees, too.

• Diversity & Inclusion: PSI affirms its commitment to diversity and believes that when people feel respected and included, they can be more honest, collaborative, and successful. Want to be involved in our DEI work at PSI? We have a council made up of PSIers that drive, sustain, and deepen our DEI practices.
• Health & Wellness: In all of our locations, PSI offers a comprehensive benefits package that offers health, financial planning, family care, and flexibility for work life fit. For U.S. based benefits visit www.psi.org/careers to learn more!
• Time Away: We want you to take time away when you need it. PSI offers a competitive leave package. On top of our leave, some PSI offices offer a compressed work week throughout the year, giving you additional work-life flexibility.
• Learning & Development: PSI is committed to your career growth. Through PSI’s job architecture, there are many potential career paths you can follow depending on your skills and interests. Additionally, PSI University, our learning management system, offers hundreds of courses, hosts org-wide trainings, offers Great Manager/Leader trainings, as well as a mentorship program for all staff levels.
• Innovation & Collaboration: With over 53 years of insight, PSI reimagines how to bring quality healthcare closer to those who need it most. Innovation requires stepping out of comfort zones, and our employees are encouraged to think beyond boundaries, collaborate to drive impact, challenge conventions, and pioneer new solutions.

Salary Ranges:*

PSI is committed to pay equity and transparency. We ensure pay meets the market within each country. This approach minimizes our impact on local talent markets and allows PSI to attract and retain employees, while staying cost-competitive.

Actual base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, external market analysis, and other business factors permitted by law. Hiring above the mid-point of the range below would not be typical in order to allow for potential future salary growth.

PSI is offering the following gross annual salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• For the United States (paid in USD): $108,000 (minimum) – $135,000 (midpoint) – $162,000 (maximum)

About PSI
Did you know that we have over 3,000 “PSIers” working across the globe in 40 different countries? We’re a diverse group with a wide range of backgrounds from the medical industry to the music industry, all with unique skills we bring to the job. We value self-motivated people with a track record for getting things done in tough situations. We take our work seriously, but not ourselves.

Interested in Learning More?

• About PSI: Who we are, how we work, and the challenges we seek to solve.
• PSI Career site
• Featured Projects: Flagship & Priority Projects
• Where We Work: PSI’s Global Network
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PSI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, tribal belonging, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status. PSI is a safe, inclusive workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life, and it’s reflected in our diverse community.

References will be required. The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check. For US based positions: Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.

If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: newhiresupport@psi.org or call (202)785-0072.