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Job Opportunity in Yemen: Hygiene Promotion Officer at IRC 2020

Job Opportunity in Yemen: Hygiene Promotion Officer at IRC 2020

Yemen 16 May 2020
International Rescue Committee

International Rescue Committee

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Area
Host Country
Deadline
16 May 2020
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Opportunity funding
Full funding
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All Regions

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is offering an exceptional job opportunity for a talented Hygiene Promotion Officer in Yemen for 2020. Under the direct supervision of the Environmental Health Manager, the Hygiene Promotion Officer Position is a junior level management position (Based in Al Dhale’e) that involves planning, management and monitoring the accurate implementation of the Emergency Hygiene Promotion Response in targeted areas. The position requires professional communication and engagement skill with the communities, and the partners as well as the accurate management of the financial, material and other resources under the program and reporting periodically to supervisors. She or He will work in close coordination with community health team to ensure hygiene promotion activities are integrated with WASH targets.

Responsibilities:

  1. Prepare weekly and monthly activity plans in conjunction with the manager.
  2. Seek out and engage local community partners for to identify the most needed areas to conduct cleaning campaigns.
  3. Conduct detail assessments at health facilities to identify the health care waste management needs.
  4. Supervise and monitor distribution WASH Non-Food Items (NFIs) on health facilities, water management committees, and households.
  5. Organize and conduct trainings covering health care waste management and water treatment and quality monitoring at health facility level.
  6. Develop monitoring tools to measure the behavioral changes at communities’ level.
  7. Conduct regular water quality testing as required.
  8. Track and maintain records on all activities related to hygiene promotion campaigns, NFIs distribution, and water test records at health facilities and communities’ levels.
  9. Coordinate health and community activities with health units, health cluster, and referral hospital.
  10. Perform other tasks as requested by supervisor.
  11. Coordination/Integration.
  12. Closely work with the Health Unit to ensure that the mobile clinics and health facilities have regular access to safe excreta disposal.
  13. Work closely with the supply chain and finance team for procurement/replenishment of supplies.
  14. Liaise with Finance Unit in budget preparation and utilization.

Qualifications:

  1. Degree in public health or environmental science.
  2. Minimum of 3 years practical experience in the environmental health domain.
  3. Fluent spoken and written Arabic and working knowledge of English.
  4. Proven supervisory skills. Computer literacy in standard software. (Word, Excel).
  5. Proven ability to work closely with local communities and authorities.
  6. Proven ability to handle workloads and to work under pressure in remote areas.

About the IRC:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihood are shattered by conflict and disease to survive, recover and regain control of their future. It responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

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