PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION (PHP) officer
Annual Salary and Benefits | According to Oxfam Salary Scale |
Internal Job Grade | D2 National |
Contract type | Fixed Term, 6 months’ contract |
Reporting to | WASH TL |
Staff reporting to this post | PHP Assistants |
Locations | Dire Dawa, Harare and East Hararge Zone -Oromiya |
Annual Budget | None |
Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty
BACKGROUND
The current country strategy (2015 – 2020) envisages “an Ethiopia free of poverty; where empowered women and other citizens influence and benefit from pro-poor and gender sensitive systemic changes that reduce their poverty and vulnerability and; an increase their socio-economic wellbeing”. In 2016-17, the organisation consolidated its efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and has reached more than 1.2 million people across Ethiopia with life-saving humanitarian assistance and longer-term resilience, livelihoods and gender based programmes. Oxfam currently implements programmes directly and through partners across eight regions and one city administration including Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Somali, Afar, Dire Dawa, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and Gambella. Oxfam currently has about 300 staff, working across eight field bases and the country coordination office in Addis Ababa.
The programmes in the Somali, Gedeo, and Gambella regions are dominantly humanitarian; drought, conflict and flood preparedness, response and recovery, and supporting refugees from South Sudan respectively though Oxfam is increasing its resilience-based programming throughout. The longer-term resilience-development programmes cover sustainable livelihoods, gender and climate change work. More specifically Oxfam in Ethiopia focus on rural economic development working all through the value chain cycle, promoting viable local and export markets while building the resilience of the local population to respond and adapt to the re-current natural and man-made disasters. Gender programming is at the centre of our work, always taking into consideration local gender dynamics and prioritizing the most vulnerable population.
TEAM PURPOSE
JOB PURPOSE
To enable Oxfam to respond quickly to the Public Health Promotional requirements of the conflict affected IDP WASH emergency response. The work may involve, in an immediate stage, the assessment of the hygiene promotional needs that will target mainly reduction WASH related disease outbreak including AWD, or any other public health related diseases spread as well as building the capacity of the communities to better reach and alleviate the plight of the people affected by the emergency. Particularly, the work requires providing and/or or supervise the provision of technical support and assistance to the programme within an area of specialism specifically to work with communities and Public Health Volunteers/ Community Health workers/ Mobilisers at a local level, encouraging good hygiene practices amongst IDP communities residing both in concentration centre and within host community. Training mobilisers and key community members in the aspects of health promotion and disease prevention methods
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
PHP Technical (40%)
Field staff supervision, support and development (30 %)
Training/learning and capacity building (20 %)
Co-ordination and Networking (5 %)
MEAL and Reporting (5%)
TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIAL
Essential
Desired
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