The WASH- Hygiene promotion assistant will work under the overall leadership of the Senior Nutrition Officer and the Nutritionist for the implementation of the IRC WASH program in Turkana County. The role will support and assume responsibility for successful implementation and supervision of the WASH components of outreach and facility-based interventions in the target areas with close follow-ups at household level to clients (under-fives & PLWs) admitted into the program.
He/She will be responsible for the daily technical planning and providing training to community health volunteers (CHVs) , CHEWs, and Hygiene Committees in the catchment area, implementation, supervision, and monitoring of hygiene promotion activities ensuring positive engagement of clients (under-fives & PLWs) admitted into the program in hygiene awareness and knowledge about personal, water, food, and environmental hygiene.
Key Responsibilities
- Work towards the achievement of overall goals through effective supervision of hygiene related activities and lateral relations and teamwork.
- Planning, monitoring and supervision of community health volunteers’ (CHVs) engaged in hygiene promotion activities, to ensure the quality of implementation.
- Ensure appropriate community involvement and delivery of essential hygiene services and facilities.
- Capacity building of community hygiene volunteers and monitoring to ensure the quality of deliverable activities.
Need Assessment
- Participate in the initial need assessment at target communities’ level: carry out personal interviews at household level, facilitation of focus group discussions, visits to outreach sites and health facilities , and meeting with key stakeholders.
Project implementation
- In liaison with the WASH technical advisor, 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.
- Conduct hygiene promotion sessions alongside community hygiene volunteers in the targeted community.
- Identify, train and follow-up of activities of community hygiene promotion volunteers.
- Provide training on hygiene promotion to community health volunteers.
- Communicate techniques on environmental, food, water hygiene in the target households/ communities. Ensure that the various aspects of the hygiene activities are integrated with Gender, Protection and Health.
- Spend time in the field with CHVs to ensure quality and impact of hygiene interventions in the field.
- Ensure that the hygiene promotion activities are implemented based on the quality standards established by IRC/MOH through quality checklists.
Develop plans for the WASH-Hygiene Promotion
- Spend time in the field with CHVs to ensure quality and impact of hygiene interventions in the field.
- Ensure that the hygiene promotion activities are implemented based on the quality standards established by MOH/IRC through quality checklists.
- Assist the line manager, design a detailed implementation work plan and procurement plan for WASH-Hygiene promotion activities to achieve the projects objectives on time and as per budgets.
- Regularly evaluate the status of the WASH-Hygiene promotion activitiesand propose the subsequent steps to achieve the project objectives.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
- Daily monitoring and recording of field activities related to WASH-Hygiene promotion.
- Track the project planned activity progress daily.
- Assist the MEAL team in monitoring and evaluation and ensure project lessons are documented for future note.
Reporting
- Weekly (or each time when necessary) brief written and oral reports to line manager.
- Participate actively in terms of collecting required data to donors reports and proposals.
Integration and External Coordination
- To participate to the hygiene/ WASH sector working groups in area of intervention.
- To improve the collaboration with the relevant Turkana County government technical departments aligned to the project goals
- Participate in sector integrated coordination and networking forums related to WASH-Hygiene Promotion at field level