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Title

Specialist Advisor – Urban Sanitation and Hygiene

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Reference   (Please mention Stopdodo/Environment Jobs in your application)
Sectors Sustainability, Climate, CSR, EMS
Location Madagascar - Africa
Town/City Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
Salary Additional Information 0
Type Temporary / Contract / Seasonal
Status Full Time
Level Voluntary & Interns
Deadline 30/04/2015
Company Name Azafady
Contact Name
Telephone +44 (0)20 8960 6629
Fax +44 (0)20 8962 0126
Email mimi@azafady.org
Website Further Details / Applications
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Description

Allowance: The post attracts a contribution to the living expenses of the post holder. This consists of £1,000 per year towards the cost of flights, approximately £280 a month towards living expenses in country, Visa and Insurance covered by the project.


Background of Post:


This is a one year extendable post working on a three year project in South East Madagascar with a small, highly respected NGO. The post holder will be working within a team of local and international staff in developing and implementing an urban sanitation project in Fort Dauphin to reduce the practice of open defecation and facilitate sustained behaviour change in terms of latrine use and improved hygiene practices across the town.


This is an exiting project for anyone who has drive, loves working in a collaborative manner across cultures and wishes to see their ideas making a real and lasting impact on the town.


Over 90% of the population in the Anosy region of Madagascar lives in extreme poverty, with severe lack of access to health and education facilities. Through its Community Heath Department, ONG Azafady has operated a range of health interventions within Anosy over the last 12 years including an ongoing rural Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) programme and several urban sanitation initiatives, including a 2 year pilot for Project Malio – the initiative which this post will support.


Project Malio is a 3 year initiative funded by the UK’s Big Lottery Fund that combines lessons learnt from the pilot as well as Azafady’s highly successful rural Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) programme and other Azafady projects including a previous urban sexual behaviour change initiative. Responding to the critical need for improvements to sanitation and hygiene in Fort Dauphin, the project will engage the whole town in a high impact and broad scale behaviour change programme that addresses traditional taboos around the subject of defecation, motivating and mobilising the local community to eradicate the practice of open defecation and supporting them to construct 800 household latrines for the most disadvantaged families and 13 school latrines for the town’s public (non-fee paying) schools.


Project Malio has been designed to be highly participatory and, alongside construction support for households and schools seeking to build or improve their latrines, will include:
• Training and mentorship for motivated local associations to build their capacity to operate as professional implementing partners and to enable them to run key project activities within their communities.
• Sector-level action planning sessions, including the formation of beneficiary household working groups to monitor and support each other’s transition to latrine use.
• Town-wide mass mobilisations and high profile multimedia advertising campaigns to ensure the urban community’s messages to stop open defecation are widely publicised.
• Engaging educational activities and competitions for teachers and students to motivate and empower them to act as agents for change in the wider community.
• Support for a local association and authorities to sustainably manage one of the town’s key public latrines.

Purpose of the Post:


Azafady is seeking to recruit a Specialist Advisor to work alongside the local project implementation and international project development teams to bring skills and experience from an international setting into the activities and capacity building of the project. Working closely with the Head of Project Development (Community Health), they will work with the team on the development of the approach and specific activities, training plans for local staff and partner associations, monitoring and evaluation tools. The Specialist Advisor will also be required to play a central role in the production of donor reports and external project communications in ensuring that the learning from this project is used to inform future projects in this area.
The team will also work closely with other health and educational professionals in the town to ensure that Azafady has comprehensive and holistic knowledge on which to base future project development.

Tasks and Responsibilities:


Team support/capacity building
1. To work with the Head of Community Health and Project Manager in developing a detailed activity plan for the project and its on-going review.
2. To work with the project team in developing a range of activity plans and resources that can be used by Azafady’s frontline workers and partner associations.
3. To work with the project team in developing monthly capacity building sessions for partner association members.
4. To support the Head of Community Health in ensuring partner activities are sustained and strengthened so as to form the basis of a WASH platform for Fort Dauphin.
5. To work closely with the staff and partner association members to exchange information and provide mutual support.
6. To work with the Head of Community Health and Head of Project Development (Community Health) to supervise and support the technical and operational activities of the staff involved in the project delivery.


MEL/specialist research


7. To work with the Head of Community Health and Head of Project Development (Community Health) to devise and conduct appropriate monitoring and evaluation activities to check the perception and outcomes of the project.
8. To complete desk based research into best practice and advise on different approaches to respond to problems encountered.
9. To work with the Head of Community Health, Project Manager and Head of Project Development (Community Health) in using the research findings to inform project development of this and other similar Azafady initiatives.


Communications/reporting


10. To work with the Head of Community Health to ensure ONG Azafady is positively represented in external meetings and affairs to maintain strong working partnerships with relevant Government officials, health and social services and community-based organisations.
11. To provide short, monitoring narrative reports on project findings to be presented in monthly meeting with the Community Health and Project Development teams.
12. To provide 6- and 12-month reports for stakeholders.
13. To provide regular social media updates and more formal articles, papers and learning notes for external publication as required.
14. Any other tasks that the Head of Project Development (Community Health) deems necessary within the broad outline of the role.


Person Specification:


Essential
Degree in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Community Health, International Development or related field
Experience working/volunteering internationally in a sanitation and hygiene capacity
Experience of designing, implementing and managing an activity-based project
Excellent communication skills, including a sound ability to adapt material for different audiences
Experience of report writing for external donors and stakeholders
Experience of capacity building and/or acting in a supervisory role
Passion and motivation for the work and ability to enthuse staff and other volunteers
Ability to work both independently and as part of a multicultural and multilingual team
Experience of living and working in at least one developing country, preferably in sub-Saharan Africa
Ability to adjust to life in another culture and a foreign language, working at all times with cultural sensitivity and respect
Desirable
Experience of designing resource material in an innovative and participatory way
A good understanding of international guidance and policy regarding urban sanitation and hygiene
Experience of designing monitoring and evaluation strategies and tools
Experience of analysing spreadsheets and databases
Knowledge of or willingness to learn French and/or Malagasy


Anyone interested in applying for this position should send a detailed CV and covering letter explaining how their skills and experience match the requirements in the job description to the mimi@azafady.org (Please note that due to the high volume of applications anticipated we are not able to acknowledge receipt of applications unless specifically requested. We will contact you if we wish to take your application further.)

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