Major Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as the focal point for all activities related to hygiene and Sanitation in the assigned woreda.
• Conduct a community assessment; support implementation of PLA in reviewing of the community action plan and follow up the proper implementation of the action plan.
• Conduct assessments, planning, organizing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the community hygiene and sanitation activity and school hygiene activity programs in the project areas.
• Directly supervise and provide support to the capacity building Assistants and the Environmental Health Agents who base at kebele level.
• Conduct/participate the appropriate Environmental Health (EH) Knowledge, Practice, and coverage (KPC) surveys during survey design, data collection, data entry, analysis, and reporting to monitor and evaluate the impact of EH and hygiene promotion activities.
• Facilitate in the selection, designing, pre-testing, developing, dissemination and evaluation of appropriate hygiene educational materials for effective hygiene promotion program.
• Support in promoting field tested and practical community participatory approaches and effective hygiene promotion techniques for enhancing hygienic behavior, sanitation improvements, and community management of water, Sanitation and Hygiene facilities.
• Facilitate periodic meetings and integrating community with WUA and school WASH club on regular bases.
• Provide information on technical problems of water systems & feedback to the technical team on time.
• Ensure community participation in various activities and suggest best experiences on managing/ operate & maintain their water system.
• Work along with other HP team and Environmental Health Officer to build linkage with other activities of the project by incorporating the out puts from PLA process.
• Ensure proper handover of water schemes to the water committee and respective Woreda water offices.
• Ensure proper compilation and maintain training materials for users.
• Ensure that active community mobilization and participation in both water and hygiene sanitation community action plan was proven by using different community approaches and networking system.
• Provide support for the Water team and work in collaboration with the EH officer other team in community action plan implementation.
• Ensure the project resources including the construction materials in all kebeles of the intervention woreda are well monitored and properly used for the project purpose without any abuse and submit the material utilization report of the woreda to the EH manager, in every two weeks.
• Make sure that the Capacity Building Assistants and EHAs have been performing their tasks per their key Goal setting and play coaching role by providing consistent feed backs in regular base.
• Ensure all the community action plans and the hygiene promotion activities are implemented by the whole community in the intervention kebeles of the respective woreda.
• Prepared and submit success story of the project including with good picture monthly based.
• Prepare a monthly progress report and weekly update and submit to the Senior HP/PLA officer per the reporting time scheduled!
• Organize and ensure the documentation of every Hygiene and Sanitation activity, formative assessments, KPC survey and capacity building activities both in hard and soft copies supported by pictures.
• Make sure the EHAs maintain proper documentation of the PLA output, success stories, best practices, in their respective areas.
• Facilitate in documenting health related data and keep records on activities of hygiene promotion and sanitation activities including sanitary inventory per kebele, list of beneficiaries, community participations and contributions and the like.
• Minimum Requirements:

  Qualification:

  • BA/Bsc or Diploma in rural development, environmental health/public health or any relevant field with participatory learning and action experience.

  Experience:

  • At least 2 years of proven experience for first degree holders and 5 years relevant experience for diploma holders with community mobilization activities in the field and WASH experience.
  • One years of experience for post plus graduate degree in relevant field.