With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
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Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Key responsibilities:
1. Programme development and implementation:
- Develop sanitation demand creation and supply interventions with the WASH team.
- Contribute to the planning of the WASH programmes, specifically the development of Sanitation demand creation and supply interventions with local authorities
- Contribute to WV’s collaborative planning and implementation of behavioural change interventions at AP level,
- Contribute to the development of Disaster Risk Reduction and contingency planning with local authorities
- Ensure the integration of WASH interventions with all technical programs being implemented at local level also gender, social inclusion, HIV and protection issues are considered and integrated.
- Ensure that the sanitation demand and supply interventions projects address the special needs of Children, the elderly and disabled.
- Support the WASH teams’ work with the Local authority’s health officers and sanitary inspectors to apply the approaches for behaviour change to the local context, considering the WV Mozambique team’s and partners’ capacities.
- Recommend adjustments to appropriate participatory behaviour change approaches for local capacity building.
- Support the implementation of the planned interventions by the geographic WASH teams, involving communities, partners and local authorities in the activities as appropriate
2. Community Mobilization
- Mobilize the community to adopt to a new practices of sanitation, hygiene and behavioral change
- Mobilize the community to adhere the construction of sanitation and hygiene facilities;
- Promote sanitation, hygiene and behavior change at the community level
- Identify the main local barriers and design Marketing strategies to overcome them towards sustainable sanitation
- Conduct awareness of communities for rational use of water and social infrastructures, whether sanitation and hygiene
- Establish partnerships and local networks to boost the market, towards enhancing the supply of sanitation services and products at the community level
- Listen to the community about various models/prototypes of improved latrines that respond to the real need of the community and recommend the technical team for the appropriate effects
- Work with the district and local multisectoral team within the scope of public health promotion activities in the area under their responsibility
- Communicate orally and in writing relevant information to your team members;
- Unsure all CBOs are fully operational, providing measurable achievement based in evidence
3. Coordination
- Collaborate with the local government or leadership to ensure all activities are conducted with a full respect of the local culture and context
- Coordinate all WASH interventions with public health multisectoral team at district and local level
- Support coordination and integration with other components of the WASH Programme
- In collaboration with the CDRM team, contribute to identifying the capacity-building needs of authorities
- Coordinate with all CBOs to unsure integration of their activities avoiding working in Isolation
4. Reporting
- Report regularly, orally and in writing to the District WASH Technical Coordinator with a cop to Field Coordinator and WASH SBCC and all WASH district team including DME
- Use reporting formats for WASH activities reporting and regular reporting and databases (mWater)
- Ensure behaviour change information is appropriately fed into databases in a weekly base
5. Emergency response
- It may be necessary to support emergency response wihting the province starting from where your post is located
Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only
