Hygiene & Health Promoter-Bekaa

All interested candidates can send their CVs to: lbn_CV@wvi.org PURPOSE OF POSITION: To implement, and monitor the WASH and health interventions within World Vision’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) program in the Bekaa, with the goal to improve the public health of the target population. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: • Follow up with the hygiene and health promoter assistant. • Coordinate with the WASH Coordinator in implementing the project’s common activities in order to ensure integrity in the quality of World Vision’s Health programs intervention • Identify, assess, and respond health and WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) needs among Syrian refugee’s families residing in tented settlements. • Conduct WASH /health needs assessments, WASH/health technical assessments, distributions, health and hygiene promotion sessions. • Conduct mapping, assessment and documentation of the existing health services for Syrian refugees • Arrange trainings to WVL staff ,WASH Committees and health care providers on a referral mechanism for health services • Document and report on conducted activities to ensure that needs assessed are being effectively responded to and that interventions are being documented • Provide capacity building training for health care providers to support service provision • Mobilize 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 • Supervise the delivery, distribution, and implementation of (WASH) and health interventions in tented settlements • Arrange and deliver health and hygiene promotion sessions to raise health and hygiene standards and practices among targeted communities • Implement health and hygiene promotion initiatives appropriate to the context ensuring the technical and social aspects of water and sanitation programming are integrated. • Educate people about key aspects of health and hygiene in a culturally appropriate manner • Ensure all work is carried out as per the community needs and project standards • Forging relationships with people in the community in order to get the message across. • Identify natural leaders within the target communities and train and mentor them to be ‘Community health and WASH Focal Points’ (e.g. Health care providers, Community Hygiene Promoters, WASH Committee Members). • Provide active and ongoing technical oversight to ‘Community health and WASH Focal Points’. • Monitor the WASH and health issues within target communities through the ‘Community WASH Focal Points’, as well as directly through spot checks and assessments. • Mobilize, motivate and encourage potential leaders to talk to their KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • Bachelor’s degree in a WASH and health related field (Preferred: Public Health, Nursing, Teaching etc.) or a Bachelor’s degree in another field with 2 years complimentary WASH and health experience. • Good organizational and time management skills. • Good written and oral communication skills (English & Arabic) • Proven ability to build capacity of partners/ stakeholders through formal trainings and informal job shadowing and mentoring • Ability to monitor work of project-hired contractors • Good interpersonal skills • Must have cross-cultural sensitivity, problem solving and negotiation skills. • Must have a genuine concern to help the Syrian Refugees • Good team building skills; a creative, innovative, and adaptability personality. • Ability to cope and work under pressure. • Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural and difficult / sensitive contexts. • Ability to spend 100% of job in the field • Ability to review and write reports • Ability to manage data effectively