Vacancy at Danish Refugee Council for a Hygiene Promotion Officer
Employment Nigeria
04-May-2017
BORNO ,
NGO
Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Hygiene Promotion (HP) Officer
POSITION : Hygiene Promotion Officer
Description
- General Programming & Operations
- Facilitate formation of community structures in hygiene promotion and strengthening of the existing structures such as WASH Committees through trainings sensitization workshops and other hygiene promotion awareness campaigns.
- Design, develop and implement appropriate HP mobilization strategies for DRC’s WASH projects.
- Develop hygiene promotion work plans for multi-funded projects.
- Ensure efficient and Effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
- Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/ reports and proposals and budgets for donors.
- Mobilization of beneficiary communities to maintain the established/rehabilitated/ protected water sources.
- Lead the WASH team in carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises.
- Coordination and representation
- Collaborate with relevant Internal and External technical experts on issues related to Hygiene Promotion.
- Represent DRC at WASH meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings.
- Ensure integration of WASH activities with other DRC sectors.
- Coordinate with WASH and Shelter counterparts in other locations in the implementation of common funded projects.
- Ensure good representation and reputation of WASH and Shelter sector at all levels.
- Actively participate in internal coordination meeting
- Ensure and actively participate in regular sector meetings.
- Project development
- Develop project plans and budgets for funding
- Develop the projects’ M&E tools
- Project implementation and reporting
- Ensure management of WASH project grants through budget control.
- Monitor and Evaluate WASH Projects.
- Ensure quality control during implementation of WASH activities in accordance to Sphere and National standards.
- Prepare WASH weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to relevant authorities as per need.
- Staff management
- Supervise WASH Assistants.
- Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the WASH staff members and community based mechanisms in operational areas as needed.
- Develop staff performance measurement and targets for the WASH assistants and appraise them based on the set targets.
- Conduct daily field visits or as required to ensure WASH tasks are going on as planned and mentoring - through technical back stopping and training of duty bearers.
- Logistics/Finance
- Support the Senior WASH Officer and Manager to monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-ups.
- Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas.
- Initiate procurements and ensure their execution.
- Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner.
- Contribute to grants management of all WASH projects through management of day to day project expenditures.
Requirements
- Degree in Environmental Health Science, Biological Sciences, Public Health or Nursing degrees from recognized institution
- 2 years’ experience in planning, implementing and evaluating hygiene promotion projects preferably in a humanitarian context with an INGO.
- Knowledge of Hygiene Promotion Approaches, training of trainers and facilitating menstrual hygiene sessions for women and girls.
- Understanding of humanitarian/civil society issues in the country and the region.
- Good IT skills (especially Ms.Office)
- Should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.
Desirable:
- Understanding of rights and protection issues of refugees, children and women
- Fluency in written and spoken English. Fluency in local spoken languages.
- Project Planning and Management is an added advantage
- Experience working with displaced populations.
- Experiencing of managing teams
How To Apply
Candidates should send their Cover letters and updated CV's to: drc-hr-ng@drc-nigeria.org with the position applied for as the subject
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