Requisition ID : req4273

Sector : Environmental Health

Employment Category : Fixed Term

Employment Type : Full-Time

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Job Description :

IRC has been implementing WASH development project with the goal tothe Sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion intervention through a community-driven process, to change community’s behavior regarding to water, sanitation and hygiene to contribute to the improvement of the health and socio-economic well-being of targeted communities in three woredas of Sidama Zone and one Woreda in Gedeo zone; namely Aleta Wondo, Hulla, Dara and Dilla Zuria Woreda’s, SNNPR, Ethiopia by increasing access, capacity building, and fostering ownership among communities and local government to sustainably meet their water, sanitation, and hygiene needs through the project funded by Charity Water (C: W) which has been started the implementation on Feb, 2018.

Under this project, the IRC proposes to improve access to and use of safe drinking water and improved sanitation facility in an effort to improve the health status of targeted communities in three woredas of Sidama zone and one Woreda in Gedeo zone, SNNPR.

Summary statement of responsibilities :

Under the direct supervision of the Capacity Building Assistant Officer and with the technical support of the HP/PLA officer, the Environmental Health Agents is expected to establish PLA groups, coordinate and provide technical support to PLA facilitators and WUAs caretakers (WASHCOs).

Specific duties and responsibilities includes but not limited to :

Hygiene promotion activities :

• Take active role in mobilizing of the community facilitators at community level and facilitate  training for the facilitators, ensure community action plan implementation
• Ensure all the communities voluntaries have properly attend PLA sessions in regular base and properly recorded each activity ;
• Mobilize target community for effective implementation of project activities ;
• Conduct home visit and address hygiene promotion activities for HH in the kebeles and regular report the output of the home visits to the HP/PLA officer ;
• Support target communities in constructing HH pit latrines.

Strengthening of WUAs :

• In coordination with capacity building assistant, Establish and support WUA ;
• In coordination with community capacity building assistant , Ensure the   WUA have developed by laws and  follow up the functionality of by laws ;
• In coordination with capacity building assistants, ensure all the water schemes have developed the water collection fee standard per their village context and have official finical management trucking system ;
• Serve as the focal point for all Hygiene and Sanitation activity and Environmental Health (EH) activity by basing in the assigned Kebele.

Qualifications :

• Primary education completed up to 6 ;
• NGO experience or any related experience is a plus ;
• As per the job description but at least one year experience ;
• Knowledge of the local language; Sidamigna and Gedeofa is Mandatory.