Hygiene Promotion Assistant at International Rescue Committee

Key Responsibilities

• Work towards the achievement of overall goals through effective supervision of hygiene related activities and lateral relations and teamwork.
• Planning, monitoring and supervision of community health volunteers’ (CHVs) engaged in hygiene promotion activities, to ensure the quality of implementation.
• Ensure appropriate community involvement and delivery of essential hygiene services and facilities.
• Capacity building of community hygiene volunteers and monitoring to ensure the quality of deliverable activities.

Need Assessment

• Participate in the initial need assessment at target communities’ level: carry out personal interviews at household level, facilitation of focus group discussions, visits to outreach sites and health facilities, and meeting with key stakeholders.

Project implementation

• In liaison with the WASH technical advisor, design appropriate water safety and treatment methods.
• Assist in the design and interpretation of the water treatment formulations for different purposes.
• Closely monitor the quality of water sources and apply corrective measures as necessary.
• Conduct hygiene promotion sessions alongside community hygiene volunteers in the targeted community.
• Identify, train and follow-up of activities of community hygiene promotion volunteers.
• Provide training on hygiene promotion to community health volunteers.
• Communicate techniques on environmental, food, water hygiene in the target households/ communities. Ensure that the various aspects of the hygiene activities are integrated with Gender, Protection and Health.
• Spend time in the field with CHVs to ensure quality and impact of hygiene interventions in the field.
• Ensure that the hygiene promotion activities are implemented based on the quality standards established by IRC/MOH through quality checklists.

Develop plans for the WASH-Hygiene Promotion

• Spend time in the field with CHVs to ensure quality and impact of hygiene interventions in the field.
• Ensure that the hygiene promotion activities are implemented based on the quality standards established by MOH/IRC through quality checklists.
• Assist the line manager, design a detailed implementation work plan and procurement plan for WASH-Hygiene promotion activities to achieve the projects objectives on time and as per budgets.
• Regularly evaluate the status of the WASH-Hygiene promotion activities and propose the subsequent steps to achieve the project objectives.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Daily monitoring and recording of field activities related to WASH-Hygiene promotion.
• Track the project planned activity progress daily.
• Assist the MEAL team in monitoring and evaluation and ensure project lessons are documented for future note.

Reporting

• Weekly (or each time when necessary) brief written and oral reports to line manager.
• Participate actively in terms of collecting required data to donors reports and proposals.

Integration and External Coordination

• To participate to the hygiene/ WASH sector working groups in area of intervention.
• To improve the collaboration with the relevant Turkana County government technical departments aligned to the project goals
• Participate in sector integrated coordination and networking forums related to WASH-Hygiene Promotion at field level.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Minimum Diploma in Public health, Environmental Health or other related courses.
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience implementing hygiene practices at community level.
• Experience in donor/ activity report writing and carrying out assessments.
• Registered under relevant regulatory bodies e.g., Public Health Officers & Technicians Council (PHOTC)

Work Experience:

• Experience in implementation of hygiene promotion activities.
• Experience in establishment and training of Hygiene Promoters, WASH committees and School hygiene Clubs.
• Experience in undertaking hygiene promotion activities and construction of latrines will be an added advantage

Other Competencies:

• Ability to work as a member of a team is essential
• Good communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with community members and leaders.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients at all times is essential.
• Positive and professional attitude, able to organize, maintain composure and prioritize work under pressure, work overtime when necessary and be able to coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Full professional competency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint, is an advantage.
• Ability to work independently in a result oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment and manage conflicting priorities.