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FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender equality, youth, research, technology, communication, and social marketing — creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development and humanitarian challenge in more than 70 countries. FHI 360’s Crisis Response team is responding to the humanitarian emergency in the Northern Ethiopia through an integrated health, nutrition, WASH, and Protection program focused on decreasing morbidity and mortality among the conflict-affected population.

Job Summary:

Under supervision of the Senior WASH Officer, the WASH Assistant- Hygiene promotion is responsible for supporting all scale-up of public health promotion components of the WASH activities in FHI 360 implementation areas in Afar region. The WASH Assistant-HP will be responsible for helping the WASH officer in providing technical guidance to volunteers, HAD’s, contractors, skilled and unskilled daily laborer’s, IDPs and partners at field level under his duty areas of assignment and ensure that public health promotion components of the program implementation adheres to appropriate international standards and Ministry of water and health guidelines.

Accountabilities:

•  Support the WASH officer in facilitating the process of establishing smooth and fulfilling work relationships with host government offices and their implementing arms.
•  Support the timely startup of planned WASH undertakings in Zone 1 and Zone 2 in Afar.
•  Participate in the planning and ensure all procedures and internal requirements are in place and assigned to volunteers in consultation with the Sr WASH officer.
•  Support the WASH officer in facilitation of technical trainings related to PHP approaches, including “WASH’EM” and “Baby and Mothers”, in selected areas of interventions.
•  Support baseline, endline, KAP, and PDM surveys as needed.
•  Support field assistants, volunteers, and partners in the proper implementation of WASH NFI and MHM kits provisions including site identification, site specific beneficiary selection criteria development, beneficiary verifications and distributions.
•  Regularly coordinate with the WASH assistant/Engineer and support in ensuring full packages of waste management and hygiene promotion for health facilities implementing nutrition programs.
•  Support in review of existing harmonized IEC materials, and when needed contribute to the development, testing and dissemination.
•  Facilitate the organization of public health promotion campaigns and events
•  Represent FHI 360 at various levels of WASH platforms including the WASH Cluster and its technical working groups as assigned by supervisor.
•  Work closely with other FHI 360 units, including health and nutrition, logistics and finance, HR and administration, to ensure programmatic integrations, effectiveness, efficiency and compliance.
•  Supervise and technically support the WASH Assistants at field in the implementation of the PHP activities of the response.
•  Work closely with other FHI 360 units – including health and nutrition, logistics and finance, HR and administration – to ensure programmatic integrations, effectiveness, efficiency and compliance.
•  Support the officer in drafting internal and external reports by collection and sharing basic primary data from field on regular basis.
•  Guide and support WASH volunteers and WASHCos to discharge their duties
•  Support the WASH Officer in Identifying infrastructural and IPC problems within health facility settings to come up with technical and financial propositions of how they can be fixed.
•  Identify WASH needs within target communities and health facilities , including identification of waste disposal facilities, sanitation and hygiene supplies and coming up with technical proposition of how the systems can be restored
•  Support the WASH officer to prepare detailed procurement, supply, and spending plans for identified WASH PHP undertakings under your areas of assignment as needed.
•  Any additional tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Competencies: There are 31 FHI360 development competencies. The focus for this particular job will be:

•  Project Management (Planning and Time Management) – accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks (sets objectives/goals/measures). Breaks down work into steps, schedules, task/people assignments. Marshal’s people, time, and resource efficiently. Arranges information in a useful manner and orchestrates multiple activities at once.
•  Problem Solving – analyzes problems, seeks input from others and considers a variety of solutions. Chooses most efficient and effective solutions with attention to the impact that solution has on other projects and tasks.
•  Technical Skills and Learning – lets go of outdated processes and procedures, seeks out resources to enhance technical skills, and readily learns new industry processes, systems and products.
•  Employees are expected to possess or have high potential for development of these three fundamental competencies.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

•  Articulate, professional and able to communicate in a clear, positive manner with clients and staff.
•  Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English, fluent in host country language as appropriate.
•  Basic knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures with project design.
•  Strong oral and written communication skills.
•  Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office suite software.
•  Ability to problem solve and recommend corrective action as needed.
•  Strong organizational and attention to detail needed to adhere to project deadlines.
•  Effective communications in information shared by ensuring attention is paid to the specific components (i.e., formatting) of the communication, successful delivery and accountability for specific components (i.e., keeping timelines updated).

Problem Solving & Impact:

•  Works on problems that are limited in scope.
•  Problems are routine in nature and are standard procedures and policies.
•  Works independently and within a team on special non-recurring and ongoing projects.
•  Exercises judgment within defined practices and policies to perform duties.
•  Decisions made generally affect own job or specific functional area.

Supervision Given/Received:

•  Has no supervisory responsibility.
•  Uses independent judgment to determine workflow and priorities.
•  Receives instructions on new assignments.
•  Typically reports to Sr. WASH Officer.