WASH Technical Assistant - Hygiene Promoter Afghanistan Jalalabad

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contracts.

Purpose of the Job:

The main purpose of this position is to conduct community bases assessment and work closely with providing training to communities to promote good Hygiene practices and at community level and to reduce the risk of communicable diseases related to water and sanitation by promoting good hygiene practice in communities and conducting hygiene awareness sessions and capacity building of communities on good hygiene practices and to distribute hygiene kits.

For more details about this position please click here: Job Description and NRC Grade Structure.

Generic Responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Participate in one-day training on the assessment tools as well as paper-based and mobile data collection as well as community based hygiene promotion session conducting.
2. Conduct initial and final KAP survey in targeted communities.
3. Conduct community level hygiene promotion session trainings.
4. Contribute to implement Cleaning campaigns (including community mobilization, community sessions, house-to-house visits,) from planning, to implementation and monitoring.
5. Monitor proper hygiene practice among beneficiary and motivate them if required.
6. Distribute the hygiene kits to the targeted beneficiaries and keeping documents of distribution.
7. Produce reports regularly as per the project requirement.
8. Contribute to any other HP activity implementation.
9. Ensure that protection principles are upheld at all times while collecting data, and respect and ensure the confidentiality, privacy, and if necessary, anonymity of survey participants.
10. Ensure quality and accuracy of data collected by conducting daily checks of completed questionnaires at the end of the day.
11. Abide with security protocols as instructed during data collection.
12. Upload electronically collected data to a password-protected server on a daily basis and request target achieved for each category in order to keep track of progress.
13. Data entry/transfer under the supervision. (if applicable).
14. Support Emergency Coordinator. Or PM to prioritize the emergency activities in different region such as field assessments, distribution, responses, PDM, risk monitoring and coordination.
15. Other duties as assigned by team supervisor.

Generic professional competencies:

• Bachelor's in public health or any other medical field.
• Experience with designing, implementing and monitoring of construction projects
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience working with NGOs in a similar WASH fields.
• Experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context.
• Experience with Open Data Kit (ODK), Ona, Kobo Toolbox and mobile data collection preferred but not necessary.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Some knowledge of English language.
• Computer literacy.
• Fluency in local language Pashtu/Dari both written and verbal.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Handling insecure environment
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents.
• Eid Bonus once per year.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labor Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis.