Junior Environmental Health Agent at International Rescue Committee - IRC

Junior Environmental Health Agent

Employer: International Rescue Committee - IRC

Employment: Full-Time | Contract

Place of Work: Aleta Wondo - Ethiopia

Posted date: 1 month ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

Under the direct supervision of the Hygiene Promotion/PLA Officer and with the technical support of the other IRC team, the junior Environmental Health Agents is expected to implement the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC’s) community-driven Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approach to mobilize beneficiary communities to collectively identify and analyze their water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) problems, outline solutions in community action plans, and implement these plans. The JEHA also ensures the establishment of community-based Water user Associations/WUA, community mobilized for conduct series of Kebele based meetings with different community groups/PLA groups.

Major Responsibilities:

Hygiene promotion activities

• Take an active role in mobilizing the community facilitators at the community level and facilitate training for the facilitators, ensuring community action plan implementation.
• Ensure all the community volunteers have properly attend PLA sessions in regular base and properly recorded each activity.
• Mobilize target community for effective implementation of project activities.
• Conduct home visits and address hygiene promotion activities for HH in the kebeles and regularly report the output of the home visits to the HP/PLA officer.
• Support target communities in constructing HH pit latrines.

Strengthening of WUAs

• In coordination with capacity building assistant, establish and support WUA.
• In coordination with the community capacity building assistant, Ensure the WUA have developed by-laws and follow up the functionality of by-laws.
• In coordination with capacity building assistants, ensure all the water schemes have developed the water fee collection as per their village context and have an official financial management tracking system.
• Serve as the focal point for all Hygiene and Sanitation activity and Environmental Health (EH) activity by basing in the assigned Kebele.

Safeguarding Responsibilities: -

• Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office]
• Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Primary education completion certificates up to 6 grades
• "Applies basic knowledge of work routines and standards; requires the ability to understand oral and written instructions and perform simple tasks.
• ability to write and read.
• Preferable primary education up to Grade 6
• Some ability in Language optional as per the JD
• At least one year of experience

Preferred experience & skills:

• Good communication with clients and staff
• NGO experience or any related experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with kebele level officials.

Language Skills:

• Knowledge of the local language; ‘Sidamu Affoo’ is Mandatory