Duration: 6 months
Start date: Immediately
You will help end world hunger by…
Promote behavioral change associated with good maternal and child practices for safe water, sanitation, and hygiene through education, advocacy, and awareness-raising activities aimed at mothers, fathers, caregivers, families, and the community, with efficiency, quality, and relevance to ensure the healthy growth and development of children.
The main activities you will perform are the following:
Objective 1 : Actively participate in the processes of gathering relevant information to determine the characterization of the communities,
Tasks:
- Supports the review of the baseline instrument and community characterization together with the JdP and Health and Nutrition Technician
- Participate in the design of the questions of the instrument(s) for characterizing the community.
- Actively participates in baseline surveys, community characterization, and observational assessment of community characteristics.
- Actively participates in the development of post-distribution monitoring (PDM) questionnaires for supplies intended for vulnerable populations.
- Actively participates in conducting questionnaires on participants’ perceptions of satisfaction with community-level awareness-raising activities. Evaluates the need (their own or those of the partner’s promoters) to reinforce Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene topics, considering the context and cultural practices to address community information needs.
- The JdP and the team coordinate field trips to establish baselines, hold committees, or hold focus groups to assess satisfaction with the activities carried out, including the application of PDM and impact assessment at the ASH level.
- Communicate to the JdP any findings, situations or eventualities in the area.
- Promotes the use of Action Against Hunger’s PQR channels in all spaces.
Objective 2: Objective 2: Implement educational activities at the community level on good maternal and child water, sanitation and hygiene practices through awareness-raising, including targeted home visits to households with children and adolescents with acute malnutrition.
Tasks:
- Know the project’s indicators, activities, and sub-activities, adding value to the direct execution process and monitoring the counterpart’s promoters during educational activities.
- Participates in ACH training processes and handles all issues within the framework of community strengthening aimed at ACH promoters and the Counterpart.
- Identify all materials and resources available for awareness-raising processes on water, sanitation, and hygiene.
- Supports the design of content and/or materials alongside the Technician and/or JdP on emerging training topics as required.
- Participate in community-level screening activities to collect information on potential NFI Kit recipients and their family profiles.
- Plans WaSH educational activities together with the team of promoters.
- It implements community-level educational activities on key practices in safe water, storage, handwashing, prevention and management of waterborne diseases, household sanitation, menstrual hygiene, and other practices, taking into account local habits, customs, dialects, and cross-cutting approaches (gender, harm-doing, and environmental).
- Facilitator during training processes aimed at the community, maintaining the methodology and training content defined for the sessions by the ACH and JdP Technical Team.
- Reviews, identifies, and analyzes areas for improvement in the verification methods for community-based training sessions and those conducted by the counterpart’s community promoters and/or liaisons.
- Coordinates with the counterpart’s community liaisons information on censuses and calls.
- Provide opportunities for participation with representatives of minority groups on the most appropriate days and times so that people can participate in awareness-raising activities.
- Identify warning signs in adolescent or adult women, as well as in girls and boys, regarding cases of GBV, sexual abuse, or domestic violence for guidance and referral to organizations specializing in the subject.
- Together with the social health promoter and the health and nutrition technician, he/she coordinates the planning of monthly and weekly home visits to support the recovery process of children and adolescents with acute malnutrition.
- Reinforce key messages about the use and maintenance of water filtration systems according to the specific needs of men, women, and children during home visits to families.
- Provides guidance to households and/or communities on proper water management, taking into account the vulnerability of the intervention area and community customs.
- Maintains strict confidentiality regarding the information and data of beneficiaries and the organization.
- Participate in the systematization of beneficiary data collected with the project team.
- Supports other tasks and activities required by the project, such as screening, kit distribution, and PDM collection.
- Communicate to the JdP any findings, situations or eventualities in the area.
- Promotes the use of Action Against Hunger’s PQR channels in all spaces.
Objective 3: Ensure the correct management of data from the verification media of the activities and sub-activities under its charge.
Tasks:
- Actively participate in data systematization through the tools provided for recording activities, attendance, and recipients from the collected verification media (physical and/or digital).
- Submits reports on educational activities in safe water, personal hygiene and sanitation, taking into account the findings of other areas (APS, nutrition, gender and protection), monthly or as needed.
- Participates in monthly meetings scheduled by the WaSH and JdP technical team, and regularly reports on progress and action needs to its hierarchical and functional representatives.
- Systematic analysis of field findings, primarily from community-level WASH awareness-raising and/or education activities, including lessons learned and challenges related to the activities under their responsibility.
- Systematically use Action Against Hunger’s IT tools such as No Hunger Forum, Teams, Kobo, and SharePoint.
Does this description fit you?
- University degree in one of these areas: Environmental, civil and industrial engineering
- Additional training in Public Health, Epidemiology, Community Health (accredited courses, diplomas, specializations) will be valued.
- Training in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, NFI Kits, Menstrual Hygiene, SRH and Gender.
- Knowledge of MS-Office is required.
- Excellent writing skills, including presenting activity reports and interim project reports with measurable results
Our compensation package:
At Action Against Hunger, you have the opportunity to join a multicultural, professional, and innovative organization and participate in high-impact social projects. You’ll also benefit from:
- Competitive compensation based on the candidate’s experience.
- Professional career in the Humanitarian sector.
- Continuing education in both technical and soft skills.
At Action Against Hunger, we are firmly committed to diversity and gender equality. Our applications are open to Indigenous peoples and people with disabilities, with the goal of ensuring inclusion and diversity in all our actions.
We reserve the right to close the call early if the vacancy is filled before the established deadline during the selection process.
Action Against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior in the workplace, including sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and/or financial malpractice. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment and our code of conduct and other related policies, as only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.
