Sanitation and Hygiene Officer

Projects Description

In the case of equal suitability, ability and professional experience, female candidates are strongly encouraged.

The WHH Sierra Leone country programme focuses on the following sectors:

• Agriculture and Environment 
• Nutrition
• Economic Development 
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• Civil society and Social Empowerment
• Humanitarian Assistance

This involves:

1. Ensuring that charity water projects and   processes maintain high standards in Bonthe and work with Welthungerhilfe senior management to maintain linkages with the IP.  
2. Supporting the Head of Programmes (HoP) perform his/her supervisory duties within the framework of project administration.
3. In consultation with the Head of Programme, instructing and supporting project partner organisations (PPO) in matters relating to advocacy at strategic level management so that they fulfil their contractual obligations towards Welthungerhilfe. 

Project Name

SLE 1109- Charity water 

The main focuses of areas of responsibilities are based on Welthungerhilfe’s valid rules and standards and project implementation process descriptions and progress reports.

• To provide day-to-day technical support and supervision of construction of WASH facilities including construction of various water access initiatives, types of community latrines i.e., household latrines, the family shared latrines, child friendly latrines, people with special needs latrines, installation of handwashing facilities and clothes drying lines. 
• To provide day to day hygiene promotion activities through supervising the Community Health Promotors, IP Sanitation Marketing Officers who are working directly with project communities to ensure that they provide knowledge, to change altitude and adaptation of good hygiene practices led to reduce the transmission of open defecation. 
• Play a lead role in mapping out communities for village sanitation improvement, especially during the CLTS/PHAST/CHAST roll-out exercises.
• Participate in the collection of useful data success stories and beneficiary lists as required.
• Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports for donors.
• Identifying, examining, and assessing (pre-selecting) new WASH products that could be adaptable for marketing with profit maximization to IP or the private sector.
• Identify and train private sector actors on the uptake of sanitation marketing as viable business. 
• Advising partner organizations on organizational and conceptual matters regarding the introduction and implementation of instruments to ensure quality of WASH projects.
• Identifies and addresses potential health hazards related to water quality, sanitation, and hygiene. 
• Ensure quality control of implementation of WASH activities in accordance with SPHERE, UNHCR, and Sierra Leone National standards.

Duties without own area of responsibility

• Supporting Head of Program in a systematic monitoring feed backs of scaling up sanitation marketing strategy of Welthungerhilfe support to charity water funded project. 
• In collaboration with other exiting wash projects, provide technical support on marketing sanitation at micro and meso level in Bonthe district.
• Explore appropriate policies, guidelines, and protocols for the WASH aspects of WHH work in country, in consultation with other field managers and in line with relevant government, Sphere on sanitation marketing.
• Provide technical support to field officers conducting social marketing awareness raising.  
• Fulfilment of any other tasks which are assigned by the management and correspond in general with the character of this position.

1. Minimum bachelor’s degree in environmental health sciences, Water Engineering, or WASH-related course or related field 
2. At least three years of relevant professional experience in the field of WASH, marketing skills and administration. Experience on sanitation marketing models is an added advantage,
3. Ability to understand, analyse, and interpret internal and donor regulation, financial reporting requirements. 
4. Ability to communicate effectively and concisely,
5. Ability to do market base analysis using sanitation and persuasion as appropriate model to improve WASH self-supply services at community level, requiring excellent oral and written communication skills,
6. Proficiency in MS Office, PowerPoint software applications and reporting packages.
7. Possess excellent planning and organizational skills.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Documents once submitted cannot be returned to the applicant. Thus, please do not submit Originals.