Hygiene & Sanitation Officer

Self Assist Africa Job Emptiness:

• Place: Hygiene & Sanitation Officer
• Deadline: February, 29/2024 

Self Assist Africa is a global growth group that works by agriculture and agri-enterprise growth to finish starvation and excessive poverty. The group has programmes in 15 international locations in sub-Saharan Africa and likewise implements tasks in Brazil and Bangladesh. In early 2023 we launched a brand new five-year group strategy, which defines shared mission because the alleviation of starvation, poverty, social inequality and the impression of local weather change by community-led, market-based and enterprise-focused approaches so that individuals can have entry to nutritious food, clear water, respectable employment and incomes whereas sustaining pure assets. Our wider group additionally consists of social enterprise subsidiaries Associate Africa, which offers moral auditing and consultancy companies, TruTrade, an modern buying and selling platform in East Africa, and CUMO, Malawi’s largest micro-finance supplier. Our three core values are:

▪ Impression: We’re accountable, bold and dedicated to systemic change.

▪ Innovation: We’re agile, creative and enterprising in an ever-changing world.

▪ Neighborhood: We’re inclusive, sincere and have integrity in {our relationships}.

Job Title: Hygiene and Sanitation Officer

Firm: Self Assist Africa

Division: Programmes

Location: East Gojam, (Goncha Sisu Enebse and Enebse Sarmeder)

Contract Kind: Six-month contract, renewable primarily based on efficiency evaluation and availability of fund

Stories to: Senior WASH Officer

Job Function

The position of the Hygiene and Sanitation Officer place is to supervise and implement the hygiene and sanitation actions underneath the humanitarian response undertaking according to different lifesaving interventions in East Gojam Zone; Enbese Sarmeder and Goncha Sisu Enebse and its environment areas. The place will present direct help and technical recommendation within the planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis of hygiene and sanitation parts of humanitarian tasks, construct the capability of SHA and its companions in technical points pertinent to the sector and develop and strengthen partnerships amongst sector stakeholders, authorities departments and NGOs for efficient collaboration and co-ordination in implementation woredas.  

The hygiene and sanitation officer shall be reporting to the Senior WASH Officer and work carefully with the Subject and Cluster/subcluster workplace employees to make sure the profitable implementation of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene actions all through the area. He/She is going to guarantee efficient integration and harmonization exercised with the livelihood, nutrition and health programming

Key Obligations

Particular duties embody, however should not restricted to:

• Develop into accustomed to the present program paperwork and to develop a piece plan to include all of the Hygiene and Sanitation actions in collaboration with the WASH officer.
• Organizes campaigns and common applications with the purpose of training the Neighborhood within the want for preventive companies of non-public and hygienic measures.
• Set up water committee with extension brokers or community teams, or different kebele and village brokers of the focused beneficiaries.
• Maintain conferences with all members of goal beneficiaries and promote their consciousness on water, sanitation, and hygiene.
• Works carefully with area employees and extension brokers within the dissemination of health/hygiene-related supplies/data
• Liaises with all stakeholders and works carefully with community institutions and authorities equivalent to colleges, health facilities, health facilities, and Voluntary businesses to make sure hygiene health education and illness prevention.
• Facilitate hygiene promotions on the community and institutional degree along with Self Assist Africa chosen VESA facilitator (VF), Neighborhood Growth Facilitators (CDF), and Woreda Well being consultants utilizing field-tested and sensible community participatory strategy and efficient hygiene education strategies (equivalent to CLTSH, PHAST, and so on.) for enhancing hygienic conduct, sanitation enhancements, and community management of water and sanitation services.
• Mobilize the community for Hygiene and sanitation-related actions utilizing agreed community engagement and water source growth approaches in collaboration with VF and CDFs.
• Facilitate focusing on of eligible beneficiaries and guarantee undertaking deliverables are reaching the goal community.
• Take part within the focusing on and distribution of Multi-Function Money to the eligible beneficiaries on the woreda degree.
• Take part within the focusing on and distribution of dignity kits and WASH/NFIs for the beneficiaries eligible as per the Commonplace tips.
• Prepares hygiene and sanitation education supplies, develops easy coaching modules, and carries out coaching actions for the community and extension employees on fundamental sanitation, together with website choice, construction and use of pit latrines, nutrition, correct water storage and use, hygienic food dealing with, correct disposal of waste, cleaning of public locations and eradication of different hazards to sanitation.
• Takes water samples from constructed schemes and facilitates the water high quality checks as essential.
• Assists the Senior WASH officer in following up and monitoring any construction-related actions and measurements.
• Intently observe up, strengthen, set up and supervise the WASH committee in villages and kebeles.
• Present coaching for WASHCos and be sure that the WASHCos are nicely functioning.
• Guarantee optimum safety and security management procedures and practices are in place for the emergency response program and frequently monitor the safety and security scenario, adapting employees safety and security procedures accordingly in collaboration and cooperation with the Safety Focal Individual and Nation Director.
• Carry out another duties and duties assigned as essential.

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Guarantee robust accountability to beneficiaries.
• Guarantee high quality applications and the monitoring of this by common website visits inside the response.
• Be certain that the minimal SPHERE requirements are maintained in accordance with the Humanitarian Constitution Precept and Sphere requirements.
• Develop exercise, output/consequence indicator instruments for monitoring the Hygiene and Sanitation actions.
• Perform common monitoring visits to implementation websites to determine gaps and doc classes realized and make suggestions for changes to make sure WASH NFI and Dignity Package help is delivered based on the cluster requirements and donor necessities.
• Assist in all phases of this system cycle, from appraisal, planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis by common area visits, training-based capability building, and desk-based suggestions.
• Monitoring progress by following up the undertaking work plan, procurement plan and spending plan by coordination with related area undertaking groups.
• Put together month-to-month, interim, remaining and mission stories for WASH NFI programming.
• Help the Senior WASH officer in updating the WASH NFI tasks matrix information.
• Basic:
• Adjust to SHA insurance policies and practices with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal alternatives and different related insurance policies and procedures.
• Take the lead on different SHA humanitarian necessities equivalent to preparedness planning, catastrophe risk discount, and so on.
• Contribute to clear methods of working making certain key data from tasks, coordination conferences and different information-sharing and lessons-learned fora is shared in an open and clear option to construct capability and strengthen the general SHA.
• Guarantee gender, nutrition and environmental points are mainstreamed in all undertaking actions.
• Set up and preserve good working relations with authorities companions at zone and district degree in addition to different collaborators on this undertaking.
• Carry out another duties assigned by the road supervisor and CMT inside the space of technical competence.

Key Relationships

• Inner
• Finance and Admin and HR
• Addis workplace Programme group
• Subject Workplace Cluster Co, Subject Officers, Programme Officers and Assist capabilities  

Exterior

• Native Authorities Authorities, Different Worldwide and Native NGOs

{Qualifications}/Information and Expertise

Important:

• Bachelor’s diploma in public health, environmental health, public health nursing and expertise in emergency WASH tasks, or different associated self-discipline
• At the least 2 years and above with a primary diploma, and former work expertise within the space of hygiene and sanitation; ideally in worldwide NGOs
• Candidates are inspired to be from the native areas with a superb degree of understanding and suppleness within the context.
• Sound judgment and talent to work successfully with others in any respect ranges.
• Information of hygiene and sanitation promotion instruments (PHAST and CLTSH)
• Proficiency in verbal and written English,
• Confirmed abilities in undertaking planning, design, implementation, and M&E.
• Expertise in coaching and capability building and talent to hold out coaching wants evaluation and develop capability building, Mentoring and training abilities
• Means to work in hardship and longer hours and good talent in knowledge assortment.
• Confirmed expertise in networking, influencing and negotiation abilities.
• Information of the federal government’s present techniques and coverage surroundings particularly on the Woreda degree.
• The agency believes in teamwork, gender equality, and conceptual strategy in sustainable growth programming.
• Demonstrated abilities working in computer software program and design functions, CAD data, Spreadsheet, and so on.

Learn how to apply

The complete job description will be discovered HERE

You may apply for the place by finishing the APPLICATION FORM and importing it alongside together with your CV, and canopy letter on the Self Assist Africa portal by the LINK HERE.

Software Deadline: 29 February 2024

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