Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is a prominent international organization working in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services, and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. 

The International Rescue Committee is providing emergency response intervention in Khartoum state following the conflict in Sudan that has resulted in an influx of IDPs and refugees to these locations. The IRC is programming in the camp to focus on Sanitation, Hygiene, and Risk Communication and Community Engagement within the state and further grow the response to include broader water supply interventions to have a comprehensive response package in the medium and longer-term, depending on the crisis. Given the current situation, staff and beneficiary safety are an absolute priority, and strict adherence to risk mitigation measures will be undertaken to protect staff and the target beneficiaries. 

Under the direct supervision of the Environmental Health Manager, the Hygiene Promotion Officer will be responsible for the direct implementation of the Hygiene Promotion component of the IRC response with initiatives to influence safe hygiene practices at the targeted communities, including COVID-19 risk prevention activities. This position will support all aspects of technical design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of community hygiene and sanitation promotion of the response; development of hygiene and sanitation promotion implementation strategy/approaches, methodologies, and guidelines, including providing feedback for purposes of improving programme quality. Hygiene promotion and safe practices, including IPC initiatives,s may be extended to targeted health facilities where IRC will be providing basic emergency response health services. This role will largely entail working with other WASH/EH Officers and Assistants alongside other sectors in strengthening the mainstreaming of hygiene promotion in the current WASH emergency response activities.

Program

• Working with the other EH Managers, design and manage assessments/surveys and studies geared towards identifying existing hygiene and sanitation practices, outbreak-related risks, barriers to safe practices, and priorities in target communities.
• Support qualitative assessments that include FGD and KIIs conducted with various community entities that would inform on safe hygiene promotion, access to WASH infrastructure, and other needs for hygiene items.
• Support analysis of data/assessment findings to inform the design of hygiene promotion and community engagement/mobilization and communication interventions that are sustainable and acceptable within the communities.
• Support all post-distribution monitoring assessments conducted after the distribution of WASH/EH-related NFI items, which would inform on lessons learned.
• Support the design of context-appropriate approaches/methodologies to be adopted in implementing hygiene promotion activities that would influence safe hygiene practices across the communities.
• Plan and implement hygiene promotion activities geared towards reducing risky IPC practices, with reference to both physical and behavioral aspects at targeted community settings.
• Provide all necessary technical expertise to the Field EH Assistants and other sector staff in all hygiene promotion aspects of the activities.
• Ensure that the vital elements of community participation, ownership, and sustainability are being taken into account in all hygiene promotion interventions.
• Contribute towards the development of appropriate, context-specific,c and culturally acceptable IEC materials, including pre-testing and printing for use by the CHVs.
• Working with communities, key entities, and stakeholders to identify CHVs and support training of the CHVs on hygiene promotion, community engagement,t and social mobilization.
• Provide feedback to other WASH teams on aspects of hygiene promotion that would inform improvement of program quality, touching on WASH infrastructure design, construction, use, and maintenance. 
• Support strengthened integration of all EH activities with Health/IPC and other program sectors.

Staff Capacity Strengthening

• Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promote a strong team spirit, and provide oversight and guidance to enable staff to perform successfully in their positions.
• Support EH Assistants on work plans and activity implementation related to hygiene promotion, maintaining follow-ups while giving feedback to the EH Manager.
• Working with the EH Manager, support the training of Community hygiene volunteers on basic hygiene promotion approaches, community engagement, and mobilization.
• Support training of IRC staff on hygiene promotion and participate in community awareness sessions convened by other sectors to support awareness raising on hygiene promotion.
• Responsible for EH Assistants’ timesheets, work plans, vacation schedules, and staff training/development activities. 

Supply Chain and Finance

• Support the development of EH hygiene promotion-related activity costing to prepare budgets and monthly cash forecasts.
• Responsible for raising all PRs related to EH hygiene promotion and sanitation activities in a timely manner and according to the procurement plans set.
• Work closely with Supply Chain in follow-ups and tracking orders (POs, Contracts, and PRs) to ensure speedy processing and in approving internal stock requisitions for WASH-related activities. 

Grant Monitoring & Reporting 

• Support the development/maintenance of effective and efficient oversight, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and tools for hygiene promotion activities.  
• Ensure regular field monitoring of activity according to set implementation plans. 
• Provide regular reports on hygiene issues and program progress against the work plan, which includes all WASH/EH-related distribution activities while maintaining updated records of beneficiaries and items received
• Working with the EH Managers, maintain an up-to-date activity tracking tool for all CHVs trained and the activities being carried out by each.
• Support documentation of lessons learnt and success stories related to hygiene promotion activities.

Coordination

• Under the guidance of the EH Manager, support Liaison with communities, local Government institutions and UN partners on EH/WASH-related issues as well as other agencies (INGOs/NGOs) operational in IRC target areas regularly to ensure coordination and effective implementation of activities.

Other 

• Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to the EH Manager and the Field Coordinator, liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs

Professional Standards

• All IRC staff are required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

The ideal candidate will have a Degree in Public Health or Community Health Sciences, a bias toward hygiene and sanitation promotion, and experience implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in a refugee camp setting.

• Understanding of EH issues in emergencies/contexts and knowledge of emergency standards (Sphere) in refugee settings 
• Able to work under pressure and able to multitask.
• Competent in Microsoft Office and other Statistical Analysis software
• Excellent professional approach and strong team-building skills.
• Able to fluently communicate and write in English
• Experience implementing WASH or public health promotion in community refugee camp settings.
• Competent communication skills, effective in representation and liaison 
• Community engagement and negotiation skills
• Knowledge and application of participatory approaches to community engagement that include PHAST, faster PHAST, CHAST, etc.

IRC and IRC employees are required to abide by the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct, which are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons, and several others.

Gender Equality is Equal Opportunity

We are committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer generous benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce, including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocol, and other supportive benefits and allowances. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female professionals to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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