Hygiene Promotion Officer at Norwegian Church Aid ('NCA')

Location: Ogoja, Cross River State

Job 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, cleaning and maintenance of WASH facilities and services;
• Ensuring community participation in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.

Main Duties

• Establish hygiene promotion team and delegate duties to hygiene promotion volunteers
• Help plan and carry out needs assessments, baseline studies and periodic studies, and feedback findings to stakeholders.
• Collate data from Community Mobilisers and prepare regular reports on activities and WASH conditions for monitoring.
• Coordinate with water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion field staff to ensure that various aspects of the WASH response are integrated.
• Coordinate with community leaders and other sectors and also with the WASH cluster working locally in order to coordinate within the WASH sector.

Implementation:

• Promote safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services.
• Ensure that action is taken to mitigate priority water and sanitation related health risks.
• Facilitate appropriate community involvement in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.
• Monitoring and following up the distribution of hygiene kits.
• Enable effective dialogue with the affected community to allow the agency to be held to account for the quality of the WASH programme.
• 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.

Resource Management:

• Train, provide support and manage Community Mobilisers or other hygiene outreach workers.

Programme Approach:

• Use participatory approaches as a far as possible throughout the programme cycle, in training, and in the use of tool kits and other materials.
• Supervise Hygiene Promotion activities and resources.

Qualification, Skills and Requirements

• B.Sc Degree on Health Promotion, Community Development, Education, Community Water Supply or other related fields
• At least two years’ experience of working in humanitarian response with local and/or international partner organizations.
• Practical experience on the use of participatory tools for promotion of sanitation and hygiene
• Must have good assessment, analytical, and planning skills.
• Good oral and written reporting skills in English.
• Training/counterpart development skills.
• Ability to work well in a team under difficult circumstances
• Familiarity with the culture of the affected population
• Strong ability to communicate effectively on hygiene matters.
• Only Nigerian nationals should apply.

NCA’s Commitment
NCA is committed to following the following policies, standards and commitments and all staff are equally expected to conform to their requirements:

• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)
• Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief
• ACT Alliance Code of Conduct:
• SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Relief
• NCA Nigeria Security Plan
• NCA Nigeria Staff Handbook