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·         Responsible for the management of the public health component of the WaSH perspectives in the designated MHNT sites including proper planning and organizing of tasks, providing technical guidance, and management of project scope and deliverables.

·         Prepares detailed Environmental Health physical & financial implementation plan for emerging emergency responses.

·         Identify and establish water trucking and water treatment sites and monitor water trucking operations and water treatment systems.

·         Works closely with, Zone/Woreda Water and Health Offices towards efficient and effective implementation of the response.

·         Works in the promotion of safe hygiene practices in emergency responses which includes Health Promotion activities.

·         Produces activity progress reports as per the preset reporting schedule and submit to the senior health and nutrition officer.

·         Coordinate with the WASH sector team of GOAL, the relevant government partners, counter partners, and communities to identify WASH needs of the IDP communities.

·         Conduct Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) assessments in health facilities and in the IDP/collective sites to ensure targeted support and effective, quality programming.

·         Ensure timely and quality implementation of sanitation and hygiene components.

·         Along with the WASH sector team of GOAL, organize and coordinate sanitation and hygiene campaigns and promotion activities as well as the water treatment chemical distribution and tailored community education supported by woreda and community-level and government structures. This includes Health technicians at the woreda level and Community Health Workers (CHW) and Health Development Army (HDA) at the community level and IDP levels.

·         Make regular follow-up and monitoring of sanitation and hygiene practices, as well as emergency public health risks for a timely response.

·         Adopt and ensure implementation of basic guidelines and standards for public health in emergencies.

·         Collect, analyze, and report on community/IDP-level hygiene and sanitation issues arising from the target groups for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation purposes.

·         Ensure adequate and timely documentation of all Sanitation and Hygiene related activities.

·         Work with government partners and structures on facilitating basic community health education through home-to-home visits, community meetings, schools (Schools based Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene clubs), health centers, FBOs, social occasions, etc.

·         Closely cooperate with partners such as WHO, GOAL WASH staff, and other relevant government offices (e.g. health and education bureaus) in the target woredas

·         Attend relevant meetings and prepare meeting notes as required and share these with the senior health and nutrition officer.

·         Any other task assigned by his/her supervisor (senior health and nutrition officer).

·    Professional experience in Emergency Sanitation and health projects implementation (3 – 5 years) including design and implementation of sanitation and hygiene activities.

·    Good understanding of standards and requirements in emergency situations.

·   Proactive and takes initiative without the need for prompting by others.

·  Excellent skill in facilitating training on emergency WASH and Hygiene & Sanitation related issues.

REMUNERATION and BENEFITS:

·         GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.

·         A chance to develop tangible experience.

·         Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.

COMMITMENTS:

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safe guarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other policy, rules and regulation of the organization.

·         Experience in undertaking KAP surveys and identifying barriers to hygiene behavior.