Work Location: Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Other Possible Locations: Rural Ethiopia
Expected Travel: up to 30%
Language Requirement: Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
English
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Accompanied - Family
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 Ethiopia seeks a WASH Advisor to assess, design, and
implement activities at the nexus of water, sanitation, hygiene, and disease –
particularly focusing on those diseases found in the tropics and often
under-researched in developed countries. This position will support an
upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that will use an integrated WASH
approach to address the burden of five to seven highly-prevalent neglected
tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across the country.
The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of
current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis,
onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworm,
roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor communities with a
lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to disease
vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners of
USAID’s flagshipNeglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE plans
to continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated focus
areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and Tigray,
among other regions.
Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently
targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health,
education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based
approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will
implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school-
and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include
conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies
based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted
helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed
water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and
solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach;
effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while
leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions
for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE
will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and
groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report
impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.
The successful candidate will coordinate with other project
staff – namely a Chief of Party, a Technical Advisor for Neglected Tropical
Diseases, and a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist– to ensure use of
modernized sanitation facilities, promote hygiene, and develop an appropriate
protection strategy for rural women and children.
Examples of duties and responsibilities:
- Mapping
water resources at the community and household levels;
- Collaborating
with local government to improve community-managed water supply systems;
- Expanding
and deepening household latrine access and solid-waste management;
- Implementing
a school-led total sanitation approach;
- Developing
strategies to adapt technologies to local conditions;
- Using
a variety of approaches to disseminate knowledge and “market” the concept
of sanitation locally; and
- Continually
engaging the community in accessing new WASH resources and services.
Minimum qualifications:
- At
least five years’ experience testing innovative WASH technologies in the
field and building capacity of local sanitation service providers;
- Concurrent
five years of experience in international project management in one or
more of the following fields: WASH, water use, water engineering; health,
health communication;
- Proven
knowledge of gender-related barriers to WASH provision;
- USAID
experience; and
- Strong
report-writing skills.
