Volunteer Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH) Specialist at Catholic Medical Mission Board’s (CMMB)

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop tailored sanitation and hygiene strategies and marketing approaches timprove demand and supply for improved sanitation and hygiene products and services based on a regional context.
• Ensure regional level WASH activities are performed, implemented and expanded with consistent approaches and quality, in accordance with national and global policies and best practices.
• Ensure that effective engagement is maintained with communities and with local government partners, tensure responsive and sustainable programming.
• Review technical documents and other deliverables tensure alignment with overall project strategy.
• Develop or review relevant guidelines, materials, trainings, job aids and tools tensure the technical strategies are reflected accurately.
• Advise on and monitor technical quality of deliverables associated with sustained water and sanitation services and adoption of key hygiene behaviors.
• Advise partners on all technical aspects of WASH activities implementation, ensuring a unified and effective approach tachieving project milestones.
• Identify and collate evidence base of promising practices and support dissemination workshops timprove existing practices and introduce new practices and/or ideas among partners and key stakeholders
• Provides technical assistance tdevelop and implement communication strategies and materials, through all phases from formative research, through design, media and materials production, community mobilization and evaluation.
• Participate in relevant technical working groups and forums at the national, regional and global level.
• Volunteer should be comfortable with performing a range of tasks outside of their SOW, when needed
• Other duties as requested by supervisor and/or CMMB staff

Required Skills/Experience

• Must be 21 years old
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Environmental Science, Hydrology or Environmental, Civil, Water Resources, Irrigation, Sanitary or Mechanical Engineering, Public Health or a related field associated with water supply, sanitation and hygiene behavior change.

Preference for experience in:

• One year of experience in health care environment or community involvement, in developing countries
• Implementing community water system facility development, including multiple water use services
• Implementing Community Led Total Sanitation and hygiene programming and training staff
• Behavior change materials development
• Sanitation marketing
• Good interpersonal skills and ability tdevelop relationships and collaborate with local community members
• Demonstrated strong technical programming skills.
• Knowledge of professional and ethical standard of public health practice
• Ability and willingness tprovide guidance tstaff members
• Familiarity and interested in global health issues, especially maternal and child health issues
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills; strong problem-solving skills
• Ability tbe flexible and prioritize projects and tasks effectively; self-starter; takes initiative
• Problem solver, able tidentify needs, and develop solutions
• Computer skills in Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office tools.
• Willingness tendure resource-limited working conditions and evening/weekend hours
• Proficiency in English; strong communication skills
• Spanish fluency required for Peru
• Haitian Kreyol or French required for Haiti