Job Description
Position: Hygiene Promoter
Location: Al Jawf/Alber
Reports to: Project Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Deadline: 11 / 01 / 2025
Reference: HR /WASH, RRM, Education-YHF/24-0012
Job Purpose:
The Hygiene Promoter will be responsible for implementing hygiene promotion activities as part of the integrated response project a in Khab wa Ash Sha'f District. Hygiene Promoter will play a critical role on organizing community awareness on hygiene-related issues, community mobilization, and monitoring and reporting of all the activities concerning hygiene communities’ awareness campaigns, sessions and needs identifications, as well as, enhancing overall community health and well-being.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under the supervision of Project Manager, undertake/take part in quantitative/qualitative assessments to identify key risky hygiene behaviors to work on and to capture key achievements with-in the framework of project/s,
- Undertake assessments to identify appropriate hygiene needs and ensure distribution of the same
- Train volunteers’ workers on the basics of hygiene promotion methods/approaches, communication and facilitation skills,
- Prepare detail implementation plan for hygiene promotion activities in coordination with the Project Manager,
- Ensure implementation of hygiene promotion activities as per planned approaches/methods,
- Work closely with Project manager on development, testing, printing and positioning of culturally appropriate IEC materials, and monitoring tools and ensure proper use of the same,
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports/updates,
- Document and share lessons learned and success stories in relation to hygiene to inform future programming
- Ensure proper implementation of hygiene and sanitation component of WASH projects with-in allocated budget and timeline meeting international standards;
- Visit the camp regularly and provide on-site mentoring to hygiene and sanitation team in the camp.
- Ensure that procurements are timely initiated, monitored and prioritized by the logistics team.
- Attend Task force and coordination meeting at Camp as instructed by the supervisor.
- Plan and monitor the distribution of Hygiene Kits.
- Hygiene Promoter will conduct specific sessions to water vendors or those responsible for trucking, selling, and monitoring water collection on cholera prevention messages, on the importance of safe water handling, and on the purpose of chlorination.
- Managing all the Community Health Volunteers/Hygiene Promoters and collecting the required reports from them.
- Any other task not here listed and necessary to the projects achievement in the sector and area of assignment.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A minimum Bachelor degree in Public Health, Business Administration, International Development or similar fields is highly desirable.
- A least three (3) years of Hygiene Promotion experience in humanitarian context; e.g. International/UN Agencies, Local Institutions/NGOs and CSOs/CBOs.
- Strong diplomatic, interpersonal and communications skills.
- Proven trainings attended to relatively local and/or International Hygiene.
- Adherence to Humanitarian principles of Neutrality, Impartiality, Independence and Humanity.
- Team and friendly work with ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to use computer Microsoft: (WORD, Excel, PowerPoint), this includes ability to use other programs of data analysis.
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