Vacancy Announcement for Governance and Public Health Officer
Forum for Community Upliftment System Nepal (FOCUS-Nepal) Dhading a NGO working in diversified field in Dhading, District. Forum for Community Upliftment System Nepal (FOCUS-Nepal) Dhading a non-government organization working in diversified field in Dhading, District. Currently,it is looking for recruiting highly qualified, committed and motivated candidates to fill in the following vacant position.
Job title: Governance and Public Health Officer
Working hours per week: As per organizations policy
Organisational unit: PURNIMA/WASH
Reports to: Project Coordinator (PC)
Matrix Reporting to: Oxfam’s Technical coordinator Governance and Public health.
Location: Based in District HQ to oversee the working RMs
Job Summary
Under the overall guidance of the Executive Director and direct supervision of the Project Coordinator for the PURNIMA Program, the Governance and Public Health Officer shall shoulder the overall responsibility of smooth operation of sustainability focused activities to ensure functionality and sustainability of Water Supply Schemes&take lead on accessing the sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice of beneficiaries at scheme level of FOCUS Nepal project working Gaupalikas. She/He shall also be partially supervised and assigned task by OXFAM Team Lead/Technical Coordinator based in Dhading District.
The Governance and Public Health Officer carries out tasks in accordance with the project document, the policies, and systems of FOCUS-Nepal and donor agencies. She/ He should follow the guidance of the WASH Program, Project Coordinator and closely work with other relevant departments as necessary to fulfill the responsibilities and efficient implementation of the WASH program.
* Demonstrates commitment to FOCUS-Nepal core values.
* Displays cultural, gender, religious, ethnicity and age sensitivity and adaptability.
* Work prioritization, the ability of multitasking and willingness to go the extra mile to accomplish what the job demands is a must.
* Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy confidentiality concerning with technical part of the Project and support Data Management.
* Good planning coordination with local stakeholders and project implementation skills to implement a wide variety of activities, often with an urgent nature, to be carried in an efficient and economic manner.
* Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.
Key responsibilities
* Support WUCs to understand and implement step by step process of water supply system sustainability focused activities to ensure functionality and sustainability of WSS.
* Work closely with Project Coordinator and Project Engineer to develop the functionality and sustainability framework of community-based water supply systems.
* Identify the improvement area on construction quality, training delivery and requirement and other relevant of the ongoing schemes which has its impact on functionality and sustainability of the schemes and recommend corrective measures to the project coordinator & project engineers for implementation.
* Work closely with the office & field team to prepare the action plan on capacitated the user committee and other relevant stakeholders- related to functionality, sustainability and governance of/in the systems.
* Support user committee on developing the business plan of the operation and maintenance fund collected at scheme
* Take lead on sustainability survey, plan and facilitate training for the village maintenance worker, tarrif setting and collections.
* Take lead on accessing the sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice of beneficiaries at scheme level
* Take lead, working with Project coordinator, on developing the sanitation and hygiene activities implementation plan and budget.
* Facilitate coordination between project team to ensure the sanitation and hygiene activities are well embedded with the construction activities carried at the field.
* Governance and Public Health Officer may train Volunteers/FCHVs and local hygiene promotion staff and supervise their activities.
* Assist to field level public health promoter/FCHV for conduction the defined related activities at scheme level.
* Review the effectiveness of the activities and provide qualitative and quantitatuve reports (including data collects, minutes from meetings, and key achievements for the week) to report progress against milestone.
* Identify, train and mobilise WASH committees and community health volunteers and enable them to effectively undertake the hygiene promotion outreach and mobilisation activities in the community.
* Intensive field monitoring to review the status and analyze the capacity and needs of the User committee, local government and other relevant groups.
* Ensure the Implementation of hygiene promotion interventions for specific target groups e.g. school children, women and men groups. Report the needs of vulnerable groups and work accordingly with technical team and district coordinator to address their specific needs.
* Assist in the basic financial, admin and logistics tasks (purchasing, etc) at the base level as directed by the Project coordinator (PC) and in coordination with the finance and logistics officer.
* Ensure the bi-weekly action plan of the PHP-Assistat and regular follow up the plan.
* Attend Gaunpalika level WASH-CC meetings and meet local government to put for ward the plan of functionality, sustainability and assets management of water supply schemes.
* Maintain robust internal (Oxfam and with Partner) coordination and collaboration mechanism for effective implementation of public health activities and corrective measures to enhance functionality and sustainability parameters of water supply schemes.
* Coordinate with MM field team and ensure to incorporate their feedback related to sustainability of the scheme and sanitation, hygiene activities.
* Intensive field monitoring visit to the water supply scheme sites/community–ongoing and all completed to review the status and analysis the capacity and need of the service providers (User committee, local government and other relevant)
* Monitoring and supervision of the public health promotion activities, ongoing and completed schemes.
* Plan for necessary refresher orientation/training to revive good practice among beneficiaries as when required.
Communication and Reporting lines
* Governance & PHP Officer reports to PC on all issues related to personnel management & general management. However, s/he will also report and work according to responsibilities assigned by Oxfam’s Technical coordinator Governance and Public Health for project progress. Specifically, Public Health Promotion Officer will be;
* Provided programmatic and technical support to the PC on all issues related to programmatic and thematic content of project. PC will be the Line Manager.
* Provided technical support to PC on all issues related to reporting, liaising and communication.
Professional skills and qualifications needed in the position
* Bachelor degree in Public health/Civil Engineering/Project Management/Governance Water resource management with at least 3 years of work experience with practical delivery of sustainable WASH project, Water governance, WASH related capacity development.
* Good communication skills both in English and Nepali
* Practical experience in rural water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion together with implementation of projects with community participation and volunteer support.
* Previous experience in community based work with NGOs and/or international organizations in the fieldsof participatory approaches and tools, field assessment tools and its analysis, monitoring, public health and/or community Wash projects.
* Basic knowledge of computers,Good planning, reporting and organization skills would be an asset.
* Committee with an extent capacity to resolve issues through coordination and advocacy.
* Ability and willingness to work in team and to work under pressure and in remote/difficult circumstances.
* Committed to humanitarian principle
Personal qualifications needed in the position
* Committed to rights based and gender-sensitive work, committed and with strong social mobilization skills and sanitation and hygiene knowledge
* Commitment to basic workplace values and policies and ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities
* Work according to the objectives of organization and donors
* Willing to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights and diversity for all aspects of development work.
* Able, willing and committed to work with people of different backgrounds
* Contribute constructively to a working environment based on mutual respect, trust and commitment.
* Have high regards towards accountability
Commitments needed
The employee agrees with the basic values, vision and mission of FOCUS-Nepal and agrees to adhere to the policies of FOCUS-Nepal. Governance & PHP Officer will be based in Dhading District with frequent visit to the fields and will respect to the workplace policies and norms of FOCUS-Nepal and Donors
The emolument shall be as per organization/project rules. Interested Nepali citizen with suitable skills are requested to submit an application letter along with updated CV through email to recruit.focusnepal1@gmail.com on or before 5 pm of 1st January 2021. Telephone inquiries shall not be entertained and any other direct or indirect solicitation may lead to disqualification of the candidacy.
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