ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their 3,300 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development.
Hygiene Promoter
Main objective:
As part of the WASH intervention, to safeguard and improve the public health of the affected population by: promoting safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services; ensuring appropriate community involvement in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.
Responsibilities for the Hygiene Promoter Job
Information management
- Gather data during needs assessments, baseline studies, and periodic studies, and help feed back findings to stakeholders.
- Help plan activities to reduce WASH-related risks.
- Record data on routine activities and WASH conditions and forward it to the WASH PM
- Liaise with community leaders and other sectors and agencies working locally.
Project Implementation
- Help identify key hygiene practices to be addressed and carry out appropriate activities to promote safe practices. These activities may include the following:
communication activities such as community meetings, drama, information campaigns, use of educational materials etc.; - Support to water-point committees, hygiene committees, latrine attendants etc.
- Mobilize disaster-affected communities as appropriate and act as the link between the WASH response and the affected population at community level.
- Conduct Hygiene activities work according to templates, methodology and work-plans agreed with the WASH Manager
- Support in data collection for KAP surveys
- Provide hygiene promotion training to targeted groups according to methodology and training materials developed.
- Ensure that training attendance sheets are completed accurately
- Facilitate the distribution of Hygiene Kits as agreed in work-plans,
- Help identify needs for non-food items relevant to hygiene, participate in the choice of items, targeting strategy, promotion of effective use, and post-distribution monitoring.
- Ensure that beneficiary reception lists are completed accurately
- Complete materials follow up to monitor what materials are used and what requests are needed from the warehouse
Resources management
- Use programme resources effectively and with care.
Project Reporting/Documentation
- Ensure the beneficiary database is accurately filled out on a weekly basis
- Prepare weekly reports outlining activities and problems related to Hygiene promotion
- Maintain and update relevant ACTED project files and documentation.
- Ensure ACTED/donor visibility through photographs, work-vests etc.
- Perform other duties requested.
Qualifications for the Hygiene Promoter Job
- Some prior knowledge of health, hygiene, teaching, or community development.
- Strong communication skills.
- Good listening skills.
- Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of different sectors of the community.
- Trust and wide acceptance by the community; a resident of Mandera
- Diplomacy, tact, and negotiating skills.
- Literacy, numeracy, and record keeping skills are desirable but may not be essential.
Method of Application
Qualified Kenya persons with the required skills and qualifications are invited to submit their detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter clearly indication the position being applied for to [email protected] and received on or before 5th May 2017 Applications sent after the deadline will not be considered. Shortlisting will be done on rolling basis.
Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments. ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
More Information
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