Ethiopia: WASH Advisor
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 01 May 2015
CARE Ethiopia seeks a WASH Advisor to assess, design, and implement activities at the nexus of water, sanitation, hygiene, and disease – particularly focusing on those diseases found in the tropics and often under-researched in developed countries. This position will support an upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that will use an integrated WASH approach to address the burden of five to seven highly-prevalent neglected tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across the country.
The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworm, roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor communities with a lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to disease vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners of USAID’s flagship Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE plans to continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated focus areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and Tigray, among other regions.
Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health, education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school- and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach; effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.
The successful candidate will coordinate with other project staff – namely a Chief of Party, a Technical Advisor for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist– to ensure use of modernized sanitation facilities, promote hygiene, and develop an appropriate protection strategy for rural women and children.
Examples of duties and responsibilities:
- Mapping water resources at the community and household levels;
- Collaborating with local government to improve community-managed water supply systems;
- Expanding and deepening household latrine access and solid-waste management;
- Implementing a school-led total sanitation approach;
- Developing strategies to adapt technologies to local conditions;
- Using a variety of approaches to disseminate knowledge and “market” the concept of sanitation locally; and
- Continually engaging the community in accessing new WASH resources and services.
Minimum qualifications:
- At least five years’ experience testing innovative WASH technologies in the field and building capacity of local sanitation service providers;
- Concurrent five years of experience in international project management in one or more of the following fields: WASH, water use, water engineering; health, health communication;
- Proven knowledge of gender-related barriers to WASH provision;
- USAID experience; and
- Strong report-writing skills.
How to apply:
http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH05/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CAREUSA&cws...
