OXFAM,Public Health Promotion Assistant Jobs in Rwanda

as signed a partnership agreement
to work in Mahama and through the existing sector coordination; Oxfam will
deliver a WASH programme which is aimed at reducing the vulnerabilities and
suffering of the Burundi refugees in Mahama Camp  through the provision of
basic WASH needs and other essential services.

• Most tasks are well
  defined within objectives set by the manager and include some routine
  reactive work but pro-activeness and flexibility to changes required.

• Work patterns are
  mainly routine but proactiveness and flexibility to changes required;

• Reactive work requires
  common sense to make judgments about basic adjustments to the jobholders
  own routine but also contributes to improvement of the programme.

• Impact is mainly with
  own team. Planning usually short-term. Occasionally needs to influence own
  team and community volunteers;

• Supervising resources
  within defined boundaries including volunteers and assets.

• Assist in assessments
  and baseline studies (if applicable) in order to identify WASH-related
  health risks and priorities.

• Collect and record
  qualitative and quantitative data from communities covered by the
  response.

• Contribute in
  developing work plans and program activities.

• Work closely with
  other sectoral teams to ensure an integrated approach is applied in
  addressing gender, protection and advocacy needs of the beneficiaries.

• Mobilise community
  level authorities, community influencers and volunteers   in the
  area covered and develop community action plan to break the transmission
  of WASH related diseases

• Ensure that all work
  is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and gender
  issues. In particular to promote the full and equal participation of women
  in all aspects of the work and to ensure that Oxfam’s Programme is an
  opportunity for peace making, rather than community division

• Ensure that the
  programme is accountable to beneficiaries through promoting their
  participation providing them with information about programme activities
  and ensuring the beneficiary feedback is used effectively to adapt
  programme 

• Ensure that work aims
  to meet Minimum Standards and adheres to Oxfam’s emergency guidelines and
  protocols including Minimum Requirement (MR) in WASH and Core Humanitarian
  Standard

• Conduct regular
  meetings, FGDs and other participatory methods to collect information
  needed for programme development and planning

• Be the focal person
  for gathering information documentation in the designated community 
  level

• Carry out any other
  necessary monitoring and data management duties in agreement with line
  manager.

• Work closely with MEAL officer, implement
  context appropriate MEAL activities and as well as setting up and running
  of relevant complaint and feedback mechanisms.

• Provide weekly update
  reports (including data collected, minutes from meetings, and key
  achievements for the week)

• Participate in
  selection and training of public health refugee volunteers. 

• Supervise the
  community health volunteers in defined geographical area.

• Relevant
  qualification, degree/diploma certificate in public health promotion or
  other relevant areas (e.g. community development, adult education)

• Previous experience of
  working directly with communities though you may not have emergency
  experience and may have limited knowledge and experience of environmental
  health and hygiene issues.

• Experience and
  understanding of community mobilisation in relation to water and
  sanitation activities

• Understands different
  approaches to community mobilisation and Information, Education and
  Communication (I.E.C.)

• Skills in
  documentation and dissemination of information

• .Ability to work under
  pressure and in response to the changing needs

• Good spoken and at
  least fair written English, and the ability to communicate fluently local
  language and one other commonly used language will be highly beneficial
  (e.g. Swahili and French)