The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

 We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

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Position: WASH Hygiene Promotion Assistant (ONLY NATIONAL)

 Location: Taiz

Contract Length: 6 Months

Grade: 5

The Opportunity: 

Under the supervision of WASH Officer, the Hygiene Promotion Assistant (HPA) will be responsible for designing and leading the hygiene promotion and mobilization activities. The position holder ensures positive engagement of SCI’s stakeholders, beneficiaries and local communities to ensure transparency, participation and full understanding of the hygiene promotion and WASH field activities. The HPA also conducts awareness sessions.

He/She will participate in emergency preparedness activities and be ready to respond in the event of an emergency, as required.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: WASH Officer

Staff reporting to this post: Community Based Hygiene Promotors

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementing WASH Soft component activities in the field.
• Works closely with WASH HP (hygiene promotor) to run assessments and identify communities, beneficiaries and the intervention in targeted communities.
• Participate in Hygiene Behavior Change Communication (HBCC) sessions and awareness. 
• Support on planning and monitoring of WASH component within the program/project with consideration to social behavior change theories and practices, ensuring consideration to Cholera prevention and response. 
• Ensure the monitoring of the WASH soft component programme objectives and organize the WASH soft teams.
• Ensure quality and respect of deadlines of the project soft component activities implementation.
• Regular technical follow ups and evaluations on soft component activities in the field.
• Make sure the planned soft component activities are clear to the members of the community.
• Coordinate with WASH Officers to ensure project activities are in line with SCI technical guidelines.
• Plan the soft component activities with close coordination of WASH Officers in order to respect the planning of the proposal and ensure that the program will not face delays and/or challenges.
• Coordinate with the targeted communities to select volunteers in alignment with SCI policies.
• Prepare and participate in conducting the training of the volunteers who will carry out hygiene promotion campaigns in the targeted communities.
• Following up volunteers conducting awareness sessions on hygiene promotion, collect weekly reports, analyse the data, and submit a consolidated report to the WASH Officer.
• Ensure all data from the field is provided on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Communication with the team and collaboration with the WASH officer.
• Identification of beneficiaries for hygiene kit distribution.
• Participate in the hygiene kit distribution process.

Coordination with community leaders.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Social Science, Health Studies, Engineering, or any related field.

• Minimum of two years working experience in Hygiene promotion, water quality in a humanitarian or development context. (INGO/NGO)
• Excellent team player. 
• Excellent facilitation and community mobilization skills
• The candidate should possess leadership skills.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, and the PowerPoint.
• Experience in dealing with rural communities.
• Have good management and Presentation skills.
• Experience in behaviour change communications and hygiene-related topics.
• Knowledge in conducting training and capacity building, 
• Strong experience in and familiarity with protection and gender-related matters.  
• Experience in community hygiene promotion and handwashing demonstration.
• Experience in hygiene kit distribution.
• Experience in preparing various reports.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.  

  Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom Save the Children is in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation. Any violations of this policy will be treated as a serious issue.  

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.  

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at 

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“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”