3 Entry Level Community Based Facilitator (CBF) – WASH Job Placements – Action Against Hunger USA

Job Title:   Community Based Facilitator (CBF) – WASH (3 Entry Level Job Placements)

Organisation: Action Against Hunger-USA

Duty Station:  Kyangwali and Nakivale, Uganda

 

About US:

Action Against Hunger-USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security. Action Against Hunger-USA, an independent NGO, currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Cambodia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Haiti and Somalia. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $75 million in programs, and approximately 2000 staff based in in the various country offices, Head Quarter in New York City and Operational Centre in Nairobi. Additional growth is anticipated.

 

Job Summary:  The Community Based Facilitator (CBF) – WASH will work closely with the WASH/Hygiene Promotion Officer to provide direct technical support and guidance to the program beneficiaries and liaise with the community structures to implement WASH interventions.

 

The WASH Community Based Facilitator will manage community participation, Hygiene promotion and all software project aspects (Hygiene campaigns, sensitizations, household visits) in addition to lending support to the hardware aspect of the project that focusses on household latrine construction support. The role entails participation in beneficiary identification, registration and follow-up and data collection from HPs.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Programme Implementation (70%)

• Participate in the design and implementation of the hygiene promotion program based on the project deliverables.
• Disseminate WASH behavioral change messages to targeted households using selected approaches in collaboration with the WASH Officer Hygiene promotion and Hygiene promoters
• Coordinate, supervise and monitor the 22 hygiene promoters involved in the implementation of the hygiene promotion programme.
• Support the WASH Officer Hygiene in training Hygiene promoters on WASH approaches and community sensitization/mobilization, hygiene promotion, WASH technical training, etc.
• Conduct demonstrations (handwashing, tippy tap, safe water handling, treatment) at target household
• Ensure HESAN data is collected monthly and submitted to WASH Officer Hygiene; identify problems and report on WASH needs and concerns in the target areas.
• Monitor the construction of HH &PSN household latrines by youth groups and households
• Support the distribution and monitor the use of the slabs distributed to PSN
• Participate in any training workshops organized by the Action Against hunger to improve the knowledge of the hygiene promoters
• Contribute to documenting experiences, giving inputs to prepare reports, presentations, briefs and articles for publication/success stories
• Liaise and coordinate all the activities with the other NGOs, the community representatives, the beneficiaries and other agencies representatives engaged in the WASH sector in the project sites.

Effective Monitoring and Evaluation (25%)

• Participate in surveys, assessments to continually identify WASH gaps and needs in the district.
• Conduct regular field visits to project sites and update the WASH Officer with the progress of project activities in the field
• Prepare regular and comprehensive project progressive monthly and weekly reports.
• Participate in Programme evaluation
• Ensure that all the partners contracted by ACF, render quality service to the clienteles/beneficiaries as per the terms spelt out in the contractual agreements and give feed back to the WASH Officer

Other duties as required (5%)

• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate must hold a Diploma in Public Health, Community Development and other Social Science related fields.
• Two years of relevant work experience.
• Previous experience in community-based work with NGOs and/or international organisations in the fields of hygiene, water, sanitation or behaviour change
• Familiarity with participatory WASH fieldwork methodologies/approaches.
• Experience in capacity building of community WASH structures
• Excellent communication skills and ability to write good reports
• Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
• Previous work in a refugee setting is desirable.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently
• Extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations
• Knowledge of the local language is an added advantage
• Culturally sensitive
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Must be able and willing to ride a motorcycle and possess a valid riding permit.

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 3^rd March 2023