Public Health Promotor - Senior Officer

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Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

About Oxfam

 

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.

 

Our Team

To reduce public health risks and contribute to a life with dignity for Syrian refugees in Lebanon through working with poor people as a force for change in addressing the causes of poverty, suffering and injustice and alleviating their symptoms

 

Job Purpose

This position will be part of an integrated Humanitarian programme in the Bekaa Valley. The WASH component will include both public health engineering and public health promotion activities with the aim of providing comprehensive WASH assistance to vulnerable persons. This position will work in informal tented settlements, collective shelter and host communities to ensure community engagement with hygiene activities and practices.

 

Core Details

Location:

Zahle

Internal Grade:

D1

Division

International

Job Family:

Programme

Contract type:

Fixed Term

This role reports to:

Project Manager, with matrix management/ technical support from WASH Advisor based in Beirut

Staff reporting to this post:

Public Health Promoters and Assistant Public Health Promoters, as applicable. 

Annual budget          for the post:

No direct budget holder responsibility but contribute to budget planning and monitoring.

Key relationships/interactions:

Other Project Staffs, Partner Staffs

Screening checks:

All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

Technical

Assessment and Programme Design

  • With the Project Manager, participate in design and management of assessments and baseline studies to identify WaSH-related health risks and priorities.
  • Supervise the collecting, recording and interpreting of qualitative and quantitative data during project design and as an ongoing practise of knowledge and analysis of Oxfam’s areas of operation.
  • Use assessment data to design participatory PHP interventions that ensure community engagement and mobilization, which is appropriate for the local context and culture.

 

Programme Implementation:

  • Provide direct management and oversight over the PHP activities executed by Oxfam directly and by the implementing partner, including drafting key project management documentation, including work plans, spending and procurement plans, and monitoring progress and challenges of implementation, as well as coordinating closely with other team members, specifically Public Health Engineering and Protection teams to ensure integrated and coordinated Humanitarian programme activities.
  • Implement PHP activities and events, including the collection of baseline data, the formation and training of WaSH committees and community based hygiene volunteer, the distributions of non-food items and supporting the design, implementation and monitoring of Information, Education and Communications (IEC) strategy.
  • Contribute to the design, management, and communication of a transition to a sustainable, partner-led implementation approach, including a responsible exit strategy.
  • Together with the team, ensure regular contact with the beneficiaries is maintained in target areas including refugee representatives, peer group members, as well as with the wider community members, with particular attention to vulnerable groups;
  • Work with the project team to define the methods of community participation that ensure the greatest possible participation of vulnerable groups, and mentor team members in the implementation of appropriate approaches for community engagement and provide feedback as necessary.
  • Support team member in delivering capacity development activities for community focal points and peer group members and in preparing and facilitating community consultations on project activities, encourage activities that allow for feedback and suggestions from community members, and ensure this information is used to inform project activities and approaches.
  • Contribute to monitoring learning and developments of community focal points and groups, impact of activities and adapt project activities and approaches accordingly in coordination with the project manager and relevant technical coordinators.
  • Source and provide technical resources and support needed to complete activities, including reviewing the quality of the hygiene promotion work and ensuring the activities stay within assigned schedules and cost targets.
  • To ensure full monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning practises are integrated into programme implementation, including closely monitoring of outputs, and indicators.
  • Reflect on programme experience to contribute to PHP /WASH learning reviews and actively participate in the monthly programme quality meetings.

 

Programme approach:

  • NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and ensure these are applied in the implementation of PHE activities, including raising awareness and building the capacity of Oxfam staff on these standards and how to action them.
  • Ensure accountability to beneficiaries, designing and implementing regular, transparent and two-way communication with Oxfam’s beneficiaries and key stakeholders, including refugee representatives and peer group members. This should include active community participation in the design, implementation and monitoring of activities with a specific focus on vulnerable/marginalised groups, ensuring feedback is incorporated into Oxfam’s programming.
  • Reflect on national and international WASH programme experience to contribute to PHP /WASH learning reviews and actively participate in monthly programme quality meetings.
  • To support the mainstreaming of gender into all activities including the introduction of mechanisms to enable women to participate in decision making around public health engineering issues.

 

Management

  • Directly manage PH Promoters officers and Assistant PH Promoters, as applicable
  • Provide overall day to day management of PH Promoters Officers and Assistant PH Promoters, WaSH monitors, WaSH Mobilizers and volunteers, where applicable, including performance management with support of Project Manager, and supporting implementation partners staff during projects.

 

Coordination

  • As requested, participate in WaSH field based meetings with other stakeholders, and coordination and communication with municipalities.
  • To report regularly, verbally and in writing to the Project Manager and to represent Oxfam to other NGO’s, agencies and Government authorities where requested.
  • With supervision, collect and report community level programme information for submission to coordination mechanisms.

 

Your commitment to Oxfam

  • Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
  • Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles

 

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

 

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

 

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

 

 

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

منتهية الصلاحية

ملاحظة:

دليل مدني، شبكة المجتمع المدني، يوفر للمنظمات منصة لنشر الوظائف, وليس مسؤول عن عملية التوظيف. كل منظمة مسجلة على دليل مدني هي مسؤولة بشكل فردي عن منشوراتها وعن عملية التوظيف.

آخر تاريخ التحديث: 
24 أبريل, 2020
قطاع(ات) التدخل:
الحكم الرشيد والشفافية, الصحة, اللاجئين, نظافة المياه والصرف الصحي
آخر مهلة للتقديم:
الاثنين, 23 ديسمبر 2019
نوع العقد:
دوام‬ ‫كامل‬
مدة الوظيفة:
N/A
الراتب
N/A
نطاق الراتب:
بين 1500 و 2000 (دولار أمريكي)
درجة التعليم:
بكالوريوس
تفاصيل درجة التعليم:
متطلبات الخبرة:
بين 3 سنوات و5 سنوات
اللغة العربية:
بطلاقة
اللغة الانكليزية:
بطلاقة
اللغة الفرنسية:
غير مطلوب
البلد/المدينة: 
  • Lebanon
  • البقاع