Assistant Hygiene Promoter

Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.

Overall purpose: Alleviate water stress and increase access to water, sanitation, and hygiene for people vulnerable to malnutrition and food insecurity in  Province – primarily for water supply projects, but also for emergency responses and Medair’s WASH support in health facility programs. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Giving high quality and participatory trainings on community level.  
• Capacity builds volunteers on training skills and topics.  
• Preparing trainings, making sure IEC materials is ready on time and processed correctly.
• Providing constructive feedback towards volunteers.
• Participating in household counts, surveys and other monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Provide accurate records, documents and reports as required.  
• Ability to work in the locations of the Tirinkot, Chor, Chinarto, Dehrawud and Gizab districts even other districts of Uruzgan province.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

 Technical -

• Giving Qualitative and participatory training on water user communities and volunteer level.
• Being an example in the community. Chor, Chinarto, Tirinkot, Gizab and Dehrawud.
• Building up the training capacity of Community Health and Nutrition Beneficiaries and providing constructive 
  feedback. 
• Making sure that supporting Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) material is prepared and 
  distributed on time and processed correctly. 

Community Acceptance:

• Coordinate and liaise with local communities to find volunteers and promoters as well as accurate training 
  places for promoter training and water user communities.
• Coordinate and liaise with local communities when there are challenging circumstances or problems, and 
  know when to ask for help from officer, Team leader and managers or other relevant parties.  

Data / Program Quality:

• Responsible for conducting the training to water user committees.
• Work with the communities for awareness.
• Responsible for printing and preparing tally sheets on time.
• Making sure that tally sheets are accurate.
• When giving training water user committees and using checklists and providing constructive feedback to
  water user committee members.
• Sharing the importance of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to communities and to patients in the BHCs 
  level.

Education: Minimum 2 Years Diploma in health Science, Physical Science and other Social Sciences is required. Bachelor’s and Master's degree in health science, Physical Science and other Social Sciences is preferred.

Relevant experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in WASH is required. Having experience in hygiene promotion, and CLTS is desirable.

Languages: Fluent in Pashto - oral and written skills Some English - oral and written skills is required. Good English skills is preferred.

Computer: Working knowledge in MS word and excel is desirable. 

Other skills:

• Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to a conservative culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further.
• Honest in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.