Hygiene Promoter

Purpose:  As part of the WASH intervention, to safeguard and improve the public health of the affected population by:  • promoting safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services; • ensuring appropriate community involvement in the design, delivery and maintenance of essential WASH services and facilities.   Major Tasks:  Information management Collect and collate data during needs assessments, baseline studies, and regular monitoring activities, and help feed back findings to stakeholders (including beneficiaries). Help identify needs for non-food items relevant to hygiene, participate in the choice of items, targeting strategy, promotion of effective use, and post-distribution monitoring. Consider a longer term strategy for access to key hygiene promotion items ie. Soap. Conduct weekly planning meetings with World Vision WASH and education field staff to ensure integration and best use of resources. Prepare weekly and monthly reports of activities, field expenditures, and WASH conditions.  Implementation  Facilitate community involvement in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.  Promote safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services.  Ensure that action is taken to.  Identify key risk hygiene practices. Plan and carry out participatory activities to mitigate priority water and sanitation related health risks. These activities may include:  communication activities such as community meetings, drama, information campaigns, use of educational materials etc.; Mobilise communities to increase ownership and maintenance of WASH facilities such as the creation and support of WASH/ hygiene committees, organising monthly community clean up days and water container cleaning sessions etc. Ensure a confidential feedback mechanism is in place to facilitate the accountability of World Vision for WASH programme quality. Train, and manage hygiene promotion volunteers; Community Mobilisers, child to child teams and other hygiene outreach workers. Carry out Hygiene Promotion activities in line with relevant standards, codes of conduct, and humanitarian principles. Develop Hygiene Promotion activities and resources so that they are implemented and handed over or ended in a way that promotes local capacities and sustainable operations. EDUCATION / SKILLS REQUIREMENTS: Knowledge of one or more of the following: public health, health or Hygiene Promotion, community development, education, or community water supply and sanitation. Experience and understanding of Hygiene Promotion and community mobilisation in relation to water and sanitation activities. Familiarity with the culture of the affected population, ability to develop respect from a wide range of people and strong ability to communicate effectively on hygiene matters. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Strong communication skills. Good listening skills. Fluency in the language of the affected population and working English.  Assessment, analytical, and planning skills.  Good oral and written reporting skills.  Diplomacy, tact, and negotiating skills.  Training/counterpart development skills.  Ability to work well in a team in difficult circumstances. Work Environment:  100% field work