Oxfam HECA Regional Response Team Public Health Promoter Job in Kenya

Oxfam HECA Regional Response Team Public Health Promoter Job in Kenya
Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK
Job type: Contract

Salary: $30.000 - $40.000
Location: Kenya
Regional Response Team - Public Health Promoter
Location: HECA (80% based in countries within the Region)
Level: C1 Global
Salary & Benefits: GBP23,090 - GBP29,954 net per annum including additional benefits
Contract Type: Fixed Term for 2 years
Status: Accompanied

Increase the impact of Oxfam's emergency water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion work across 9 countries of the Horn, East and Central Africa by responding in an appropriate and timely manner to public health needs in emergency and early recovery situations, by providing technical assistance to HECA countries and regional programmes.

In addition to acting as surge capacity for new crises, you will play a lead role in developing, testing and delivering training modules to support the adoption of the Oxfam GB minimum requirements for WASH programmes and WASH cluster hygiene promotion tools by country programmes within the Region.

The Role
You will provide technical advice and support to managers and Public Health promoters on context analysis, needs assessment, public health risk assessment, communication and behaviour change strategies.
Liaising with members of the Regional Rapid Response Team, you will support the development of solutions to diverse complex problems within organisational policy and interpret public health information from a variety of sources.

Developing effective learning networks with Oxfam managers, staff and partners which impact directly on programme quality and contribute to the achievement of Oxfam strategic change objectives as well as documenting and maximising sharing of lessons learnt between countries and regions will be an integral part of this role.

The Person
You will have a degree in public health or related field, with intensive professional experience, most of which should be within an international humanitarian setting. Demonstrable understanding of Public Health risks, relief and development issues relating to public health in natural and conflict related disasters as well as the fundamentals of Health Information Systems (HIS) will be essential.

You will be experienced in capacity building with commitment to integrating gender concerns into water and sanitation programmes. You must be fluent in written and spoken English. Knowledge of French, Arabic, Swahili or Somali would be an advantage.

This is an opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated professional, with a strong commitment to Oxfam's values and beliefs.

If you believe you are the ideal candidate, please submit your application and CV in English detailing your experience for the post and include daytime telephone contacts to hecajobs@oxfam.org.uk or apply online at www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs using Ref INT4230.

The closing date: 08 December 2010

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