Country: Uganda, United States of America
Closing date: 30 Jul 2015
Position Overview: CAMRIS currently seeks a Community-led Total Sanitation/Behavior Change Communication Advisor to provide support to USAID’s 5-year Uganda Sanitation Program (USP), which aims to accelerate sustainable improvement in water and sanitation access and improve hygiene behaviors in select target districts. To accomplish that the Awardee shall conduct activities which contribute to following distinct types of outputs: increase household access to sanitation and water services; expand key hygiene behaviors at home, school, and health facilities; and strengthen district water and sanitation governance. It is expected that USP shall be implemented in up to 25 potential focus districts. USP will begin district-based activities in a phased approach. District implementation shall initially begin work in roughly eight districts then incrementally scale-up based on achievement of milestones. USAID wants us to target districts where sanitation coverage is lower, in the western and northern districts.
Duties:
· Improve upon the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) Improved Sanitation and Hygiene (ISH) Strategy and Ugandan Sanitation Fund implementation model where and when appropriate.
· Support the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Sanitation Working Group, Program Coordination Mechanism (PCM) to improve the GoU ISH Strategy. Seek to implement an even stronger, more demand-led version of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) that responds to communities’ requests and initiative.
· Develop a more professionalized CLTS capacity(s) where it doesn’t already exist to respond to the increased need for qualified CLTS facilitators.
· Promote professionalization of CLTS facilitators to increase the quality of facilitation and propose methods for regularizing reasonable income for a smaller but effective cadre of facilitators.
· Support CLTS Training of Trainers, Training of Facilitators in comprehensive CLTS methodology and CLTS-light (also called CLTS orientation or institutional triggering) version for support staff such as district health offices, health extension workers, community health workers and village health teams.
· Expand behavioral and social change in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) through a systematic and evidenced-based social and behavior change program.
· Work with USAID’s Feed the Future initiative, health, or other nutrition programs, to integrate WASH interventions (especially USAID-supported projects that utilize community health workers) in an increasingly holistic manner, considering USAID’s Uganda’s geo-focusing policy for realizing concentrated, measurable impact, to implement district-based hygiene behavior change campaigns.
Qualifications:
· Master’s Degree in public health, engineering, business or similar field
· At least 10 years of general public health expertise including engagement of government counterparts in coordination, planning and monitoring of initiatives.
· Proven experience in undertaking at-scale public health activities.
· Demonstrated understanding of behavior change strategies including experience formative research, strategy development and implementation.
· Must have deep understanding of CLTS and typical WASH behavior change methodologies.
Experience working within Uganda
How to apply:
To apply, please send resume and cover letter to:
recruitment@camris.com