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Position: Hygiene Promotion Officer job at Mercy Corps

Job Category: Health Job

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

JOB DETAILS:
Hygiene Promotion Officer
Position Status: contingent funding
Program / Department outline
Mercy Corps has been operational in Yaltopya since 2004, operating in rural, peri-urban, and concrete areas in 5 regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Ethiopian - and therefore the capital town of New Flower. we have a tendency to interact in each development and humanitarian work and ask to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies with the maximum amount of potential. Our partners embody government, tutorial establishments, development, and personal sector actors, civil societies, and communities. Mercy Corps envisions contributory to the emergence of a peaceful, prosperous, and resilient Yaltopya that is inclusive of youth and girls. Our strategic focus within the country includes promoting dynamic and inclusive markets; natural resources management; peace and social cohesion, and humanitarian responses.

General Position outline
Under the direct oversight of the WASH specialist and program arranger, the hygiene promotion officer is accountable for the hygiene promotion and sanitation element of the HORECA program in integrated data processing sites and host communities in Zone1&2 of the Afar region. He/She is accountable for the implementation of hygiene promotion and sanitation elements and guaranteeing program quality, completion of activities at intervals allotted funding and project amount, and characteristic new wants for program growth and improvement. The Hygiene Promotion Officer is defrayal filled with his/her time within the woredas appointed.

Essential Job Responsibilities
In coordination with the WASH, emergency officers, MEL, and CARM officers undertake/take half in quantitative/qualitative assessments to spot key risky hygiene behaviors to figure on and to capture key achievements within the framework of the program.
• Work with health extension employees and target beneficiaries to spot volunteers for hygiene promotion/education,

• Train volunteers on basics of hygiene promotion/education, hygiene promotion/education methods/approaches, communication, and facilitation skills,
• Prepare detailed implementation to arrange for hygiene promotion/education activities in coordination with WASH officer
• guarantee the implementation of hygiene promotion activities as per planned approaches/methods
• Work with WASH specialists, emergency officers, and project arrangers on the development, testing, printing, and positioning of culturally applicable IEC materials, and observance tools and guarantee correct use of identical,
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports/updates,
• guarantee wants of most vulnerable are taken in to account in any respect stages of hygiene promotion intervention/s,
• Coordinate and integrate with different implementing partners in harmonizing hygiene promotion/education interventions,
• Document and share lessons learned and success stories in relevancy hygiene to tell future programming

• guarantee the correct implementation of hygiene and sanitation element of WASH comes within allotted budget and timeline meeting international standards
• guarantee integration of Water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion parts of the project with different sectors
• Prepare monthly field reports covering all hygiene and sanitation parts and have a WASH specialist
• Undertake would like assessments and contribute to the preparation of recent proposals,
• Visit the integrated data processing sites, health facilities and create a house to accommodate visits frequently and supply on-the-spot mentoring to the hygiene and sanitation team• · make sure that procurements are timely initiated, monitored, and prioritized by the provisioning team
• Monitor and guarantee defrayal against arranged, and analyze monthly monetary reports
• make sure that program defrayal is in line with original arrange and burn rate balances with implementation progress.
• Work with finance and provision to confirm the program quality
• Foster linkages with partners as well as WASH clusters, WASH steering committees and global organization agencies for effective implementation of the program
• make sure that program implementation is conscious of communities and partners and in line with Mercy Corps’ relevant program tips, principles, values, quality standards and strategic arrange.
• make sure that beneficiaries ar effectively targeted in step with established vulnerability criteria.
• Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capability building into all activities as applicable.
• guarantee program implementation is on time, target and budget, mistreatment effective M&E systems to achieve desired impacts.
• produce and maintain systems guaranteeing effective and clear use of economic resources for timely and informative news in line with donor and Mercy Corps policies and procedures.

• Fulfill Mercy Corps’ Program Management Minimum Standards supported the organization-wide guide.
• guarantee all interventions adhere to Mercy Corps’ Gender Policy, Do No damage principles, and beneficiary responsibility standards.
• Assist team members with info, tools and resources to boost performance & bring home the bacon program objectives.
• Promote responsibility, communicate expectations and supply constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.
• produce and sustain a piece setting of mutual respect wherever team members try to realize excellence.
• guarantee compliance with donor and Mercy Corps rules associated with emergency programming.

Security
• guarantee compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively make sure that team members operate in a very secure setting and ar tuned in to policies.
• structure Learning
• As a part of our commitment to structure learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations ar more practical, economical and relevant to the communities they serve, we have a tendency to expect all team members to commit five-hitter of their time to learning activities that profit Mercy Corps in addition as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries
•  Mercy Corps team members ar expected to support all efforts toward responsibility, specifically
to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, whereas actively participating beneficiary communities as equal partners within the style, observance and analysis of our field comes.

•  Team members square measure expected to conduct themselves in a very skilled manner and respect native laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values in the slightest degree times and altogether in-country venues.

Job necessities
Knowledge and knowledge
• B. Sc degree in Environmental health, Sanitation, Water technologies or connected field. four years of expertise in WASH comes
• Key programmatic information includes project formulation and style, SBCC, and project management
• NGO/Private sector expertise incorporates a important advantage
• wonderful team and social relationship skills, particularly in a very society setting, required.
• Ability to require direction, follow procedures, meet deadlines and work severally and hand and glove with team members is needed.

Success Factors
• smart structure skills
• Ability to research complicated things and to create recommendations for improvement of and contribute to overall program strategy
• expertise in conducting coaching and workshops
• expertise with observation and analysis
• temperament and skill to perform fortification and jaunt the foremost remote areas
• Hard-working, honest, dedicated, ability to speak clearly and effectively in the slightest degree levels – with colleagues, government and military officers, community leaders and community members

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree
Job application procedure
All interested candidates square measure inspired to use for the position publicized. All applications ought to be submitted to the Mercy Corps office/through e-mail that has a CV, 3 references, and everyone relevant official documents. Applications won't be came and can not be preserved for future achievement efforts. so as to make sure fairness to all or any applicant’s personal inquiries don't seem to be allowable.

Only candidates that square measure shortlisted are acknowledged and mixed up interviews.

“Mercy Corps is an associate civil rights leader promoting gender, equity, and variety. Qualified feminine and young candidates square measure powerfully inspired to use. we have a tendency to square measure committed to empowering ladies and youth.”

Please send non-returnable applications and credentials to at least one of the subsequent addresses:
et-recruitment@mercycorps.org 

Note: Please check that you just mention the position title within the subject line of your email application. OR:
Mercy Corps Recruiter
Addis Ababa: P.O. Box 14319
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Negelle Borena: P.O. Box 116
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DEADLINE : May 14, 2022