This role involves community mobilization and technical support for Health, Hygiene, and Sanitation interventions within the Turkana Area Program (AP). The primary objective is to facilitate behavior change and ensure quality implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
Main Responsibilities
Technical Support
- Liaise with the local administration to mobilize the community for the project interventions.
- Facilitate community meetings in relation to the projects.
- Support health, sanitation, and hygiene coverage through various behavior change methodologies, such as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), integrated health outreaches, and nutrition activities (including infant and young child feeding).
- Support various capacity building sessions for the communities such as training on sanitation and nutrition linkages, the importance of hand washing with soap at critical times, household water treatment, and other hygiene promotion aspects.
- Support the establishment/strengthening of referral mechanisms/processes by community health promotors (CHPs) and Health workers, including conducting monthly meetings with CHPs.
- Support the roll-out of Health activities in the AP, such as maternal, new born, and child health (MNCH), and the integration of these activities into WASH initiatives.
Quality Assurance, Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation
- Support in the coordination of joint monitoring visits between the donor and the national office.
- Participate in evaluation planning and support data collection teams, analysis, and interpretation.
- Support monthly monitoring of project indicators progress and implement relevant improvements.
- Collect (such as through digital means like m-Water) and share information to guide project teams in timely writing and submission of quality reports (Annual, Semi-annual, and Monthly Management Reports) in line with WV/grant reporting guidelines and donor expectations.
- Utilize financial planning tools such as spending plans and work plans based on project activities and budgets.
- Utilize budget estimates and anticipated costs based on programmatic priorities and activities for planning purposes.
- Monitor (with support of the project officer-sanitation and hygiene or other AP WASH and health staff) on a monthly basis the project implementation regarding budget, timeline, and targets.
Advocacy, Fundraising, Engagement with Strategic Partners, Linkages and Networks & Partnership Development
- Participate in mobilizing stakeholders during baselines, evaluations, and other relevant programming activities.
- Collaborate with community leaders and other partners to plan monitoring activities.
- Represent WVK in relevant forums within the AP area.
- Support fundraising initiatives for health, sanitation, and hygiene, such as proposal development.
- Provide support to community-led processes of monitoring public service delivery.
- Ensure communities are mobilized and participate in their WASH and health projects.
Qualifications Required
- Diploma in public health, environmental health, environmental science, or community health.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in implementing behavior change methodologies in sanitation and hygiene such as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and sanitation marketing.
- Prior experience working with partners at community level is an advantage.
- Good community mobilization and engagement skills are needed.
- Must be computer literate.
- Must be a local resident from Kalapata Ward.
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