Sanitation and Hygien Promotion Assistant

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

• Conduct the WASH promotion activities of the project are implemented according to the approved donor and government agreements.
• Planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and review of response activities as per the agreed document with donors and partners as per the direction of the sanitation and hygiene promotion officer.
• Work with community leaders to identify volunteers for hygiene promotion/education;
• Assist in the preparation of detailed work plan for hygiene promotion/education activities and ensure proper implementation of the same;
• Work with the Hygiene Promotion Officer to mobilize the host community to select a site and design to build latrines, and water points for vulnerable groups, and ensure the needs of the most vulnerable are taken into account at all stages of hygiene promotion intervention
• Conduct awareness and enhance hygiene behavior change in line with national Sanitation and hygiene implementation strategies.
• Disseminate and distribute the IEC material according to the specific targeted group (adults, children, and persons living with disabilities).
• implement WASH promotion activities according to the identified needs. These may include but are not limited to: conducting sex and age-segregated consultations with the affected community, WASH kits distributions, WASH kits use demonstrations, water treatment, and water quality monitoring, training and follow-up of community health workers, and cleaning campaigns.
• implement WASH promotion activities that keep the community and the staff safe from the risk of WASH related diseases.

The Individual

• • University degree in Environmental Health, water supply, public health, or a related subject. Adequate experience in the field will substitute for formal qualifications.
  • Minimum 2 years of total experience of which experience in the WASH sector and experience in emergency WASH is advantageous.
  • Experience in hygiene promotion in a complex and demanding workload.
  • Substantial experience in coordinating, mobilizing community, planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Demonstrated work experience in designing, supervising, and implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructural programs in community, school, and health centers.
  • Ability and willingness to travel and work in rural areas where the project is implemented, within approved security frameworks.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, and an ability to train and mentor staff.
  • Desired spoken and written English.
  • Good computer skills (particularly Excel, Word, and databases).

  Skills Specific to the Post

• • Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships with colleagues.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation.
  • Strong negotiation, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications

Knowledge:

• Good knowledge of the area and local custom
• Languages required:

Good knowledge of the local language, Gambella, Amharic, and English languages;

Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

• Ensures that all staff sign safeguarding policies;

• Implement Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.

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Location: Gambella Program Area

Type of Role: A Definite Contract

Reports to: Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Officer

Grade: B2

Closing Date:20-10-20223

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organizational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights, and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, we will request information from applicants' previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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