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• Conduct periodic community assessment on
  sanitation and hygiene practices and needs to identify areas for
  interventions and validation of the WASH annual plans for the settlement
• Work in close conjunction with the assigned
  Community based extension workers lead the mobilization and sensitization
  of target communities to participate in Sanitation & Hygiene
  activities.
• Ensure that targeted households benefit and
  participate in WASH program interventions
• Actively promote community led total
  Sanitation and Hygiene promotion through awareness creation and
  establishment and maintenance of functional Community Based Sanitation and
  Hygiene Promotion structures
• Support establishment and implementation of
  health and hygiene promotion activities in schools
• Work in close conjunction with SHO, monitor
  construction and usage of existing WASH facilities through routine visits
  and provide guidance through follow up on the activities of community and
  local government structures responsible for such facilities
• Carry out basic trainings and refresher
  trainings as well as extend guidance and technical support to the
  Community based Hygiene and sanitation Promotion structures
• Compile weekly, monthly and periodic plans
  and reports on general WASH project works in the settlement for strategic
  interventions
• Offer support in providing necessary data for
  the development of the annual budgets and activity plans of all the
  software activities and ensure they are implemented timely and are of high
  quality
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the
  supervisor.

• The applicant should hold a Diploma or
  Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health Sciences, Higher Diploma in
  Water Engineering or any other related field attained from a recognized
  higher institution of learning.
• A minimum of two years’ experience in
  implementing health, and WASH related activities, preferably within a
  humanitarian operation
• Broad working knowledge about CLTS, CHAST and
  PHAST methods
• Excellent facilitation skills, community
  mobilization skills and the ability to effectively communicate key issues
  to communities
• Ability to coordinate a range of diverse
  actors and activities to achieve a common objective in the area of
  Sanitation and Hygiene
• Knowledge of PRA methods and willingness to
  live in the rural communities in the project areas.
• Good computer skills and ability to write
  technical reports
• Ability to ride a motor cycle with a clean
  riders’ license, class A
• Fluent in applicable local Languages
  (Kinyarwanda/Kinyabwisha/Kiswahili) and English.

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