WASH Support Officers – Hygiene Promotion (3 Positions)

Contract type: Definite period

Location: Berano and East-Emi, Somali region

About the Role – Purpose:

The purpose of the position is to ensure that quality hygiene promotion activities are implemented and integrated into Health, and Nutrition at community and Health facility level. The post is also responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of sanitation and hygiene promotion activities.

The hygiene promotion assistant is responsible for ensuring high quality and timely delivery of all the WASH-related Hygiene Promotion activities which contribute to the project objective. He/ She is responsible to support the implementation of rapid emergency response of hygiene and sanitation promotion by using appropriate hygiene promotion approaches, with required standard and principles, and level of participation. The position holder is also responsible for community mobilization, proper management of resources under the project and reporting periodically to woreda team leader.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Support and Facilitation

• Conduct different hygiene & sanitation promotion and ensure the proper dissemination of Key hygiene message to the community at grass root level on different community meetings by using different hygiene promotion approaches
• Organize community level hygiene awareness campaigns, Hosting Global events (Hand washing day).
• Organize training for community representatives on Key WASH behaviors and prevention of feaco-oral disease transmission.
• Distribute, monitor and ensure the proper distribution of IEC materials to be used at community level.
• Work on building of the capacity of different Community groups and HEWs on WASH in emergency.
• Prepare detail work plan for hygiene promotion/education activities and ensure proper implementation of the same.
• Document and share lessons learned and success stories in relation to hygiene to inform future programming
• Ensure that the hygiene promotion activities are implemented based on the WASH quality standards established by CWW
• Daily monitoring and recording of field activities related to WASH-Hygiene promotion and track the project planned activity progress daily.
• Produces activity progress reports and submit to the supervisor as per the reporting schedule.
• Closely work with community Groups (CHVs, MtMSG, FtFSG, WASHCOs, clan leaders) and Kebele HEWs for hygiene and sanitation promotion activities
• Conduct different review meetings with woreda partners, HEWs and community representatives on progress of the hygiene promotion activities and beneficiary compliance and feedback management systems.
• Works closely with Woreda Health and Water Offices towards efficient and effective implementation of the response and emergency hygiene promotion activities
• Works in collaboration with other Concern staff, government partners & key stakeholder.

Coordination and Networking

• To liaise with Government woreda Health office and kebele health posts and other relevant actors as requested by the line manager
• Establish good working relationships with Concern staff, government bodies and other stakeholders
• Coordinate with other Implementing Partners (IPs) in harmonizing hygiene promotion/education interventions
• Attending field-based WASH Cluster meetings

Planning Reporting and Accountability

• Contribute to the preparation of internal and external reports
• At all times, adhere to policies and guidelines of Concern.
• Give technical support at kebele level staff on mainstreaming gender protection, accountability and DRR in the implementation of hygiene and sanitation promotion
• Committed to CWW’s vision, mission and core values
• Ensure that all hygiene/sanitation promotion activities are documented and recorded including desegregated data and reported to the respective woreda team leader.

Other

• Perform other duties assigned by the line manager for the accomplishment of Programme objectives.

Gender Equity

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Emergency response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practises in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including carers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record-keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.

Accountability

• In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
  • actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
  • work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
  • Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Diploma or degree in environmental health, public health or related fields.
• 2-3 years relevant experience.
• Strong oral and written English and Somali (as required).
• Computer skills

Competencies:

Candidates are expected to demonstrate abilities in all the following priority competency areas (the highlighted 5

competencies in bold are most critical):