Hygiene Promoter at Green Concern for Development

Location: Maiduguri - Maguri & Ngazai, Borno

Job Summary

• The Position mainly involves undertaking rapid implementing Emergency Sanitation and hygiene promotion and capacity building interventions in Maiduguri field office intervention areas.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• In collaboration with other team members, the HP assistant undertakes detail Hygiene and Sanitation need assessments.
• Assist the HP officer in preparing of IEC Materials and monitor the distribution of IEC materials to be used at community level.
• Ensure the proper dissemination of hygiene and sanitation messages to the community at grass root level.
• Organize community level hygiene awareness campaigns and prevention of AWD.
• Organize training for community representatives on Hygiene and sanitation and AWD control.
• Plan and ensure the proper distribution of Non Food Items.
• Works closely with partners and Health Offices towards efficient and effective implementation of the response and emergency hygiene promotion activities
• Works in collaboration with other GREENCODE staff, government partners & key stakeholders and Ensure proper integration of the interventions.
• Produces activity progress reports as per the preset reporting schedule and submit to the supervisor.
• Prepare brief emergency related monthly updates and submit to the supervisor.
• Closely work with GREENCODE community focus area for basic emergency hygiene promotion activities
• Work on building of the capacity of community target groups on WASH emergency promotion, NFI distributions and other health educations
• Plan and conduct different hygiene & sanitation promotion and health educations on different community meetings by using different hygiene promotion approaches
• Conduct regular post distribution monitoring and periodic post distribution survey of the NFI at house hold level
• Conduct different review meetings with stakeholders on progress of the hygiene promotion activities and beneficiary compliance and feedback management systems
• Takes additional works as assigned by supervisor.

Position Requirements

• B.Sc Degree / Diploma in Environmental Health, Public Health.
• Speaks Kanuri fleuntly,
• 1 year experience for B.Sc Degree holders and 2 years experience for Diploma holders.
• NGO experience is plus.
• Hygiene promotion experience in local community settings.
• Basic computer skill (Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point and e-mail).
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as to work autonomously when required.
• Good command spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of the local language is mandatory.