Public Health Promotion Officer at Oxfam Nigeria - 2 Positions

Oxfam, one of the leading global development organizations, mobilizes the power of people against poverty. We are a diverse confederation of 17 strongly interconnected national affiliates working in over 90 countries, either directly, or with partners to enable transformational change, using a unique combination of long-term development, campaigning and humanitarian programs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Public Health Promotion Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Duration: Six (3) Months with possibilities of extension
Slot: 2

Job Purpose

• The enable Oxfam to quickly respond to the Public Health Promotion needs of the conflict affected communities in the North East of Nigeria.
• The work involves in an immediate stage, assessment of the situation and the implementation of public health measures required to alleviate the plight of the the people affected by the emergency in Nigeria.

Responsibilities and Accountabillties
Assessment and Programme Design

Lead and line manage PHP Assistants in designated areas to:

• Carry out WASH assessments, baseline surveys and continuous gathering of information about community situations in areas covered by the programme.
• Conduct assessments jointly with the PHEs, EFSVL. and MEAL team to determine the needs and public health risks faced by communities affected by conflict and feed into the programme design.
• Collect information using participatory methods.
• Collect morbidity and mortality data from health units, submits and inform the management.
• Conduct baseline KAP survey and end line surveys

Lead the line managed PHP Assistants in designated areas to:

• Carry out public health promotion activities jointly/integrated with the Public Health Engineers (PHEs) such as identification of beneficiaries for water, sanitation and hygiene, site selection, setting up mechanism.
• Ensure that the beneficiary user (women, men & children) particularly vulnerable individuals/groups of are consulted on numbers, design and identification of location prior to implementation of WASH Facilities.
• Identify, train and mobilise the Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) and WASH Committees.
• Carry out coordination and trainings to community structures to mobilise support of Qxfam's emergency WASH interventions and engaging the community's active participation.
• Follow up CHV's performance; provide timely/regular support, coaching and informal capacity building.
• Improve the target community/IDPs' behaviours
• Supervise and monitor the distribution of non-food items/hygiene kits, SWM kit, latrine cleaning kit and other appropriate non-food items.
• Carry out coordination and trainings to community structures to mobilise support for Oxfam's emergency WASH interventions and engaging the communities' active participation.
• Participate in the development of culturally appropriate IEC materials, conduct pre-test at community level to inform the final design. Disseminate IEC materials alongside hygiene promotion activities,
• Collect and record basic monitoring data from programme beneficiaries and mobilise community to take action in addressing issues.
• Support in implementing the recovery/transition phase of the emergency WASH programme focusing on promoting the communities resilience to future emergencies.
• Participate in the development culturally appropriate IEC materials, conduct pretest at community level to inform the final design. Disseminate IEC materials alongside hygiene promotion activities.
• Ensure designated team collect regular collection of information about the movements/influx of lDPs and humanitarian situation.
• Support in implementing PHP/WASH programme learning review, case studies documenting lessons learned and clear recommendations for future intervention,
• Comply to any task reasonably assigned by line manager or designated person

Programme Approach:

• Ensure that all work carried out as part of Oxfam's Emergency WASH response meets the required minimum sphere standards and follows approved procedures
• Ensure safe programming or do-no-harm approach in all stages of response
• Adapt SPHERE standards appropriate for the context.

Educational Qualification and Competence

• First degree in any discipline relating to Public Health Promotion or Social Science. Experience could substitute for a formal qualification, but not vice versa.
• At least 2 years experience of working with local partners and an understanding of community based and gender-sensitive approaches to water sanitation and hygiene behavior change work in emergency relief or development programmes
• Must have a good understanding of the public health needs of poor rural and urban communities and of appropriate ways of tackling them. Awareness of and sensitive to the particular needs of women in this context.
• Ability to lead a team under rapidly changing circumstances, heavy workload, and wide-ranging roles and responsibilities.
• Proven innovative, analytical organisation and planning skills, as well as the ability to identify priority areas for work.
• Ability to work in the field in potentially contentious situation with local communities leaders and partners and draw on local knowledge,
• Knowledge of assessment and reporting method. Ability to manage time effectively.
• Good spoken and written English; Ability to communicate in Hausa is essential

Application Closing Date
6th February, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and Curriculum Vitae as one attachment to: [email protected] with the position title as the subject of their mail.

Note

• Only applications sent in required format will be considered.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date