Work Location: South Sudan - Juba
Other Possible Locations:
Expected Travel: up to 30%
Language Requirement: English
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Unaccompanied
Funding: THIS POSITION IS PENDING DONOR
APPROVAL
Application Deadline:
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people from all
backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.
backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.
DESCRIPTION
CARE seeks a Hygiene Behavior Change and Communications
Specialist to support a USAID-funded, multi-year project for water, sanitation,
and hygiene (WASH) in South Sudan intended to increase access to water and
sanitation in rural communities in Western and Central equatorial states.
The project will work with government agencies to improve and expand access to
WASH services, while facilitating private sector investment, establishing
community managed systems, promoting hygiene behavior change, and empowering
women to take on leadership roles.
The HBCC Specialist will have overall responsibility for
technical direction and implementation of hygiene behavior change and
communication activities, ensuring overall program activities achieve
measurable health impacts and related results.
Finally, the HBCC Specialist must demonstrate exceptional
technical and managerial experience, including managing complex rural and urban
WASH behavior change activities involving multiple program partners.
Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:
- Supporting
technical requirements, including project results and deliverables, in
accordance with the project work plan.
- Collaborating
with team members to Identify interventions and scale-up best practices.
- Building
partnerships among national- and community-level actors.
REQUIRED
- At
least 10 years of experience providing technical leadership in hygiene
behavior change and communication, both for water supply and sanitation
activities.
- Subject-matter
expertise in hygiene promotion, behavior change communication, and local
capacity building.
- Familiarity
with the political, social, and cultural context of South Sudan
- Masters
degree in public health, engineering (civil or environmental), community
development, or related field.
- Exceptional
written and oral communications skills in English.