Sanitation Social Marketers - 3 Posts at Nyeri Water & Sewerage Company Limited (NYEWASCO)

QUALIFICATIONS/JOB REQUIREMENTS & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in commercial or social marketing.
• Certificate in marketing, business administration or related field from a reputable institution will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with various sanitation technologies and demonstrated work experience in implementing hygiene promotion/hygiene education programs.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain and present technical information.
• Experience in capacity building and training of community.
• Experience in hygiene promotion or providing hygiene education.
• Substantial previous experience, with a satisfactory performance in marketing
• Understanding of advocacy, beneficiary selection, land and shelter issues.
• Must be able to prioritize and have excellent multitasking, documentation and reporting skills.
• Excellent working knowledge in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to remain focused under pressure with a commitment to work hard and for long hours.
• Familiar with Urban CLT and PHAST approaches.
• Ability to demonstrate basic skills of households and plots engagement and mobilization into practice.
• Ability to effectively liaise with local government, households, plots and community leaders and other stakeholders and conduct hygiene promotion for households and plots owners.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Flexible and creative, and it helps if you have a sense of humor.
• Goal oriented and visionary.
• Accountability & responsiveness within areas of responsibilities.
• Gender sensitive.
• Ability to understand the political, religious and cultural contexts of the households and plots and use this culture as an input for awareness and mobilization activities as well as for social marketing at household and plot level.
• Ability and willingness to travel to the field.

SKILLS

•  Excellent working knowledge in Microsoft Office, especially MS-Excel.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken in English and Swahili; knowledge of local languages is an added advantage.