Major Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support to the Zonal and district health workers, HEWs, and, School WASH clubs in carrying out essential WASH-NTD behavior changing activities in regards to STH/SCH disease transmission prevention and reduction.
• Conduct WASH –NTD and SBCC related capacity building interventions to health workers, and HDAs and facilitate community mobilization activities.
• Develop a SBCC annual work plan and take lead in implementing all activities therein with guidance from the BCC Manager.
• Coordinate and follow-up the WASH BCC activities such as IPC trainings through counseling cards, comic books, and informative videos, school contexts, and other activities within the district level stakeholders.
• Implement necessary corrective actions to ensure the integration of WASH and SBCC activities at the school and community level is at effect; and with the project catchment areas to ensure the project sustainability.
• Conduct integrated supportive supervisions on Hygiene, sanitation and SBCC activities across the districts.
• Participate in district and zonal environmental hygiene and SBCC coordination meetings, and document best practices and share to other areas and his/her supervisor.
• Conduct any on call assignment given by the immediate supervisor in related to the scope of the project

Requirements

Qualification Required : BSc degree in Public Health, Environmental Health and related fields.

Required Professional Experience : Minimum of five years of experience in WASH-NTD sector and on Social Behavioral Change Communication.

Preferred Knowledge And Qualifications

• Previous community mobilization work and mentoring experience in social behavior change communication.
• Demonstrable experience in supervising, coaching and mentoring others.
• Demonstrable experience in health or environmental health project implementation in NGO settings.
• Work experience and training on CLTSH, BCC, and social marketing.
• Demonstrable experience in working with communities and knowledge of participatory approaches.
• Prior experience in an INGO / NGO is preferable
• Excellent communication skills, both in oral and written in English and local language
• Creates and encourages a climate of team-work and collaboration in a diverse cultural environment.
• Consistently achieves high-level results, manages and delivers projects on-time and on-budget.
• Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
• Good understanding of the local cultural context.
• Willing and flexible to take other assignments and locations by her/his supervisor
• Graphics and art skills.
• Marketing/promotional/business skills.

Working Environment / Conditions : Office-based with frequent travel to the implementation districts

Applicant Types Accepted : Local Applicants Only