Job title: Hygiene Promotion Officer
Supervisor: WASH Manager
Location: Daadab
I. Job Summary
The Hygiene Promotion Officer will ensure correct delivery and impact of hygiene and sanitation promotion activities, good participation of target communities and other local stakeholders in close collaboration with Project partners.
This position will oversee all aspects of design, implementation, and
monitoring of community hygiene and sanitation promotion of the Project
including; development of hygiene and sanitation promotion methodology and
guidelines, recruitment and training of community hygiene promoters, training
the community on hygiene, implementation of hygiene and sanitation promotion
activities and providing feedback to Project partners for purposes of improving
progamme quality.Supervisor: WASH Manager
Location: Daadab
I. Job Summary
The Hygiene Promotion Officer will ensure correct delivery and impact of hygiene and sanitation promotion activities, good participation of target communities and other local stakeholders in close collaboration with Project partners.
2. Key responsibilities
The Hygiene Promotion Officer will identify and assess the key hygiene and sanitation practices to be addressed and whom to engage and develop appropriate communications strategy to promote safe practices.
She / he will ensure that an empowering approach to working with communities is employed and all activities are carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and promotes the full and equal participation of women, men, children and youth.
3. Primary responsibilities include:
- Design
and manage assessments and studies in order to identify hygiene and
sanitation practices and WASH-related health risks and priorities in
target communities
- In
cooperation with other program staff, design and plan hygiene promotion
activities to reduce these risks, with reference to both physical and
behavioral aspects
- Recruit
and train local hygiene promoters and supervise their activities
- Implement
hygiene promotion activities appropriate to the context in close
collaboration with the WASH Manager to ensure that technical and social
aspects of water and sanitation programming are integrated
- Provide
regular reports on hygiene issues and program progress against work plans
and program activities including donor reports according to the donor
requirements
- Liaise
directly with communities, local institutions and local authorities on
hygiene and sanitation issues as well as other agencies operational in
Marsabit (particularly those carrying out similar activities) regularly to
ensure coordination and effective implementation of activities
- Contribute
towards WASH program development and proposal writing
- On
the advice of the WASH manager represent GOAL in all Hygiene promotion
forums in the project areas.
- Support
and develop the capacity of implementing partner(s)
- Carry
out any other tasks as may be requested by the line manager.
4. Qualifications
- Degree
in Public Health, Environmental Health, or related Social Sciences with a
bias in hygiene and sanitation practices or equivalent combination of
education and work experience.
- Diploma
in Public Health, Environmental Health holders with extensive hygiene and
sanitation training and experience will also be considered.
- Minimum
of 3 years relevant work experience, previous experience in Marsabit and
its environ an added advantage.
- Excellent
verbal and written communication skills
- Strong
interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective
working relations with a team
- Good
computer skills
- Ability
to work with culturally diverse groups of people.
- Ability
to travel and work in difficult conditions and under pressure
- Knowledge
of the local language an added advantage
The Human Resources Manager
GOAL Kenya,
P.O Box 66242-00800,
Nairobi,
or by email to goalapplications@ke.goal.ie
Please put the job title of the position for which you are applying in the subject line of the email.
The closing date for all applications is Tuesday, 19th October 2011.
Due to the urgency of the position; CVs will be shortlisted on ongoing basis.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and responded to after interviews. No phone calls.
GOAL is an equal opportunity employer, qualified male and female applicants are encouraged to apply.
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