BENEFIT : competitive INGO salary package

LOCATION : WaterAid office

REPORT TO : WASH and Health Program Manager

EXPECTED START DATE : 3rd week of October 2020

Expectation:

WaterAid Cambodia is implementing WASH and Health program with general mission of supporting the government to improve quality of care in health care facilities through a people-centered care approached. The primary purpose of this role is to build more evidence to improve Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as part of the government quality of care strategy. S/he will support and/or lead health research projects. S/he will use his/her knowledge of health project management, and experience with public health principles in documentation and learning, monitoring and evaluation and communication to improve knowledge, practice and behaviour in WASH, Infection Prevention Control.

Duties

• Program management
• Support in managing local partners within the project
• Manage on monitoring the effectiveness of the program, gather the learnings and progress of each projects in WnH program
• Work with partners to meet donor reporting requirements.
• Manage the relationships and deepen collaboration with health center/Operational District staff, Ministry of Health/PHDs, and other ministries.
• Manage the relationship with other partners such as, research institutions, and universities.
• Support in working with operation on grant management and ensure on regular grant health check.
• Technical leadership
• Support on advocacy and influent activities on WASH in HCFs in other health policies and guidelines such Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) and other quality of care topic.
• Able to lead the implementation of national WASH in Health Care Facilities guidelines.
• Lead advocacy to position hygiene as fundamental to integrate into other health discourse such as immunisation, reproductive health, nutrition, infectious diseases, etc.
• Support in design training materials for low skill staff at health care facilities such as cleaner
• Lead/support on identify innovative WASH and Health project for the improvement Cambodia’ Quality of Care.
• Research, learning and documentation
• Support health research project such as Changing Hygiene Around maternal priorities process evaluation and end-line data collection; design need assessment on cleaner status at health care facilities and other health research project.
• Regularly lead learning sessions and document lessons from the WASH and Health Program and turn the learnings into policy document briefs, technical paper and manuscripts.
• Generate an evidence based to inform better programming and influence policy decisions related.
• Coordinate the Communications team to develop strategic communication products based on program evidence.

Requirements

• Attitude and Behaviours
• Strong team spirit, team-oriented atmosphere,
• Proven ability to work independently and think creatively (out of the Box thinking) and willingness to learn new things
• Positive manners in dealing with challenges and respect WA values, mission and vision.
• Results orientated and ability to finish tasks to a high standard
• Ability to interact effectively in a multi-cultural environment with good interpersonal skill
• Ability to demonstrate good leadership and foster a collaborative,
• Willingness to travel to local and international
• Demonstrate a role model of gender empowerment, child protection and good citizen
• Qualifications
• Essential
• Master Degree in Public Health or social sciences related Or Bachelor degree in above discipline with strong health research skill
• Desirable
• Relevant degree related to development study or environmental sciences.
• Experience
• Essential
• Clear programmatic understanding at local and national level at health sector.
• Working with Government systems at national and/or sub-national level.
• Relevant experiences on water, sanitation and hygiene and health – related WASH topics.
• Experience in conducting formative research, process evaluation and developing creative intervention.
• Writing high quality reports for a range of internal and external audiences.
• Write project case studies, communication materials and documentation.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience – including in program management.
• At least 2 years of experience of managing partners.
• Operationalizing effective monitoring, evaluation and learning process.
• Desirable
• Experience designing and conducting evaluation and research relating to health and behaviour change
• Experience working with the Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Departments (PHDs).
• Experience of establishing new partnerships.
• Experience working in building capacity of partners.
• Have knowledge on Gender, inclusion and equity.
• Knowledge and skills
• Essential
• Writing briefing notes and reports.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills in Khmer and English (both written and verbal),
• Good editing skills and the ability to tailor communication materials for different audiences.
• Organised and methodical approach, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of national health strategy plan
• Skill in designing and facilitating knowledge sharing and events
• Strong computer literacy: MS Office (Excel, PPT, Word) and other online learning platform.
• Willing to learn new things via exiting WA learning platforms such to be part of existing internal working group, learning hub and global/regional webinars
• Desirable
• Ability to build capacity of partners.
• Ability to coach and train partner.
• Ability to work with ministry of health on development digital training materials.
• Personal qualities
• Results oriented and commitment to deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills, collaborative style and ability to forge new relationships and partnerships
• Being open to learn, experiment and take risks
• A strong commitment to gender sensitive, inclusive and pro-poor development work
• Commitment to Child Safeguarding and to the WaterAid values of integrity, respect, collaboration, courage, accountability and innovation
• Ability to travel within Cambodia especially to health care facilities and internationally

Application Information

Applications for this role must comprise of:

• An application letter addressing the essential person specification criteria outlined above (Not more than 1 page)
• A curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages). The CV must include two academic/professional referees (referees will not be contacted until after interviews, with permission from the candidate).

WaterAid is committed to welcoming people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, culture and experience. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We will make any practical adjustments to enable people with a disability to participate fully in an inclusive working environment. Please let us know if require any special assistance in making your application or attending an interview.

Recruitment process:

This position is open to Cambodian national candidates.

• Interview date 2nd week of October 2020
• Start working date 3rd week of October 2020

Note: WaterAid is a child safe organization. The successful applicant will be required to comply with our child protection policy.

WaterAid was established 2014 has ambitious plan work a range stakeholders support sector aim reaching universal access sanitation water Cambodia by 2025. WaterAid Cambodia’s is on influencing make change happen by supporting government strengthen system that lead sustainable service, inspiring next generation Water Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) leaders by building human resources, especially women promote collective action building bridges between sectors by using and adaptive approach.