Hygiene Promotion Assistant - National Position

• Conduct hygiene needs assessments, support implementation planning, and coordinate with supervisors/stakeholders at various levels
• Train volunteers/incentive workers on hygiene promotion methods, communication skills, CHAST/PHAST, and ensure ongoing mentorship and supervision
• Execute hygiene promotion campaigns and ensure culturally appropriate IEC materials are used effectively in line with international standards
• Monitor progress, supervise volunteers, prepare field reports, and document lessons learned and success stories to improve future programming
• Plan and distribute hygiene-related kits (hygiene kits, dignity kits, cholera kits), and ensure their proper usage, especially focusing on sanitation facilities like latrines
• Conduct sensitization campaigns (e.g., cholera, WASH events), and ensure inclusion of vulnerable groups and gender mainstreaming
• Design activity tracking databases, collect relevant data, and support MEAL in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes
  
  

 
 
 

• Minimum academic qualification of Diploma in Public Health, Community Health, Environmental Health or related relevant courses, with a minimum of 2 years prior experience in hygiene promotion practices, preferably in the humanitarian context
• Demonstrated field team management experience as well as security, safety, and resource management experience
• Good project management, partnership management, and coordination skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the capacity to see the big picture and make sound judgments and decisions
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented, and results-oriented, with a genuine interest in learning
• Flexibility and strong communication skills with proven ability to work effectively with local governments, align with MI values and standards
• knowledge of local context, including dialects of the titled location is an asset

• Start Date: June 2025
• Duty Station: Katsina State, Nigeria
• Duration of contract: Until December 2025 with the possibility of renewal
• Salary expectation: Salary according to qualification and experience
• Other benefits: Group Life Insurance Premium, Health Insurance Package (Single/Family plan), 13th Month pay
• Annual leave, Compensation Leave, Academic Leave, Wedding Leave and Compassionate Leave - applicable

Malteser is an equalopportunityemployer and welcomesapplicationsfrom all people, regardless ofgender, confessionororigin.

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