Requisition ID: req41157
Job Title: WASH Assistant
Sector: Environmental Health
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Galkacyo, Somalia
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee has been working in Somalia since 2006, providing essential services to conflict and disaster affected communities. The IRC has been operational in Central Somalia (Mudug and Galgadud regions) and Mogadishu implementing interventions in the areas of livelihood, WASH, Governance, and peacebuilding, GBV, Nutrition, education and health reaching out to more than 200,000 conflict and drought affected people.
Under the direct supervision of the Galkacyo WASH Officer and overall administrative support from Senior WASH Officer and WASH Coordinator, the WASH will train IDPs and host communities on proper hygiene practices. Will organize and build the capacity of Hygiene Committees in IDP camps and villages throughout the Districts of Hobyo & Galkacyo in Mudug region. The WA will create links between the IRC, the community elders, the community at large and other stakeholders.
Community Mobilization and Sensitization
- To ensure that existing hygiene promotion activities are being undertaken correctly in designated project locations, usually in coordination with other WASH activities.
- To facilitate community hygiene outreach for internally displaced people (IDPs) in villages including the host communities.
- To participate in surveys of selected communities and monitor social change and new social information relevant to community empowerment.
- To ensure effective and timely reporting of activities undertaken on a weekly basis.
- To identify potential leaders and/or organizers.
Capacity Building
- To identify capacity building needs of the beneficiary community and organize focal person trainings.
- Identify and train volunteer community hygiene promoters.
- Organize and conduct hygiene promotion training for school going children based on child-to-child participatory hygiene promotion methods.
Technical & Reporting
- Directly implement hygiene promotion activities in the communities; this includes household visits, hygiene awareness sessions and distribution of hygiene promotion materials.
- Coordinate closely with the WASH Officer-Water and Sanitation and Hygiene Promoters over water quality and beneficiary needs and preferences regarding water collection points.
- If requested, participate in any inter sectorial assessment process, including analysis and planning.
- Directly manage the day-to-day hygiene promotion activities in the field
- Ensure that hygiene promotion activities meet stated objectives within the timeframe.
- Ensure program activities foster accountability to beneficiaries, gender and protection sensitivity and inclusion are adequately addressed in programming.
- Distribute Information, Communication and Education (IEC) materials to Community hygiene Promoters.
- Provide technical support and training for hygiene promoters and community volunteers.
- Provide regular reports, document results, and maintain detailed records.
- Provide weekly reports of progress on hygiene promotion activities.
Design
- In liaison with the WASH Officer and the Senior WASH Officer, design appropriate water safety and treatment methods.
- Assist in the design and interpretation of the water treatment formulations for different purposes.
- Closely monitor the quality of water sources and apply corrective measures as necessary.
- Organize and monitor community and/ or casual labor work teams as required.
Qualifications
- A degree in public health or related discipline, or equivalent work experience in community Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program.
- At least 3 years of experience in similar position/related
- Professional experience in community water, sanitation and hygiene programs in displaced populations
- Excellent program implementation skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to meet strict deadlines and work minimum supervision.
- Ability to work in and as a team.
- A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity.
- Knowledge of local Somali language.
- High degree of confidentiality and integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Good organizational skills.
- Competent to work under stress as the situation may dictate.
Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.
Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances
