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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