Carry out hygiene promotion activities at house hold level interventions in emergency and rehabilitation phase in the West Nile Emergency Response according to standards and policies of WVU and other internationally recognized standards.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Conduct house to house visits, focus group discussions and mass hygiene campaigns to sensitize the community on good hygiene practices e.g. safe excreta disposal, safe water chain, management, safe solid and liquid waste disposal, hand washing campaigns.
- Monitor and promote proper usage of WASH facilities within the assigned blocks and report any anomalies.
- Conduct school visits to create awareness on proper usage WASH facilities in schools and report any anomalies.
- Participate in needs assessment, baseline surveys and any other study relevant to hygiene promotion and the overall WV work.
- Conduct registration of HH to receive any hygiene materials
- Mobilization of HHs to construct latrines and conduct distributions of any hygiene materials as per the project design
- To disseminate sanitation and hygiene promotion messages through PHAST and PHASE approaches
- To conduct community mobilization, awareness and sensitizations on WASH activities and public health related risks and disease outbreaks.
- Monitoring maintenance and usage of communal latrines.
- To record morbidity trends in their assigned blocks and do follow ups.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Educational Background:
Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences, Public Health, Water Supply & Sanitation or any other related field attained from a recognized higher institution of learning.
Skills/Experience:
- Experience in implementing Health, and WASH related activities of not less than 1 year, preferably within an International NGO.
- Experience in facilitating CLTS, CHAST and PHAST sessions.
- Very strong facilitation skills, community mobilization skills and the ability to effectively communicate key issues to communities
- Ability to coordinate a range of diverse actors and activities to achieve a common objective in the area of Sanitation and Hygiene.
- Knowledge of PRA methods and willingness to live in the rural communities in the project areas.
- Good Computer skills and ability to write technical reports
- You must be able to ride a motor cycle with a clean riders’ license, class A
- Must be fluent in applicable local Languages and English.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 29 2019
Active Until:
Apr 29 2019
Hiring Organization:
World Vision
industry:
Nonprofit