🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Concern Worldwide – LANN WASH Officer
Job Description
Concern Worldwide is a nongovernmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern Worldwide integrated programming approach aims to tackle all dimensions of poverty, focusing on the overlapping areas of health, education and livelihoods while maintaining our response to emergencies. Concern fully integrates equality in all its work, with emphasis on a gender transformative approach. Concern Worldwide has been operational in Sierra Leone since 1996. Programme implementation is based in four areas, namely Tonkolili District, Port Loko District and Western Area Urban and Wester Area Rural.
On this note, Concern would like to invite well experienced and professional applicants for the under mentioned role:
| Job Title: | LANN WASH Officer |
| Project | Linking Agriculture, Natural Resources and Nutrition (LANN) LANN Nutrition Smart Communities – a rights-based approach and integrated programme |
| Reports to: | Nutrition Team Lead |
| Direct reports: | None |
| Liaises with: | LANN Team Leader, Agriculture and NRM Officer, M&E Officer, Base Manager |
| Job Location: | Port Loko / Community Level |
| Contract Details: | Fixed term (renewable) |
| Job Context: | Concern in partnership with Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is implementing a LANN+ Nutrition Smart Communities – a rights-based approach and integrated programme aiming focusing on the promotion of sustainable food and nutrition security for vulnerable rural households in target communities of Port Loko District. LANN+ Nutrition Smart Communities centers on a participatory nutrition education in rural areas, levering agriculture, natural resource management and women empowerment for improved household nutrition. |
| Job Purpose: | The LANN+ WASH officer will implement Nutrition-Sensitive WASH activities at community level: Promotion of improved hygiene and sanitation practices and facilities at household and community level to reduce the prevalence of diarrheal diseases (for an improved utilization of and sustained effect of improved diets) – focusing both on behavior change and improved WASH hardware. S/He will ensure that agreed targets are on track to be met with high quality reporting. |
| Main duties & Responsibilities: | Programme planning and implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Reporting and documentation
OTHERS / SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
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| Emergency response | Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and Sierra Leone Programme is to respond, all staff are expected to be willing to actively participate in emergency responses, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization. |
| Person specification: | Essential Education
Desirable
Job related Experience and Knowledge
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| SAFEGUARDING AWARENESSConcern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents. | |
HIV & AIDS
Concern Sierra Leone is committed to respond to HIV & AIDS and to a supportive working environment for those infected or affected. Each staff member is required to contribute to achieving this commitment by:
- Raising awareness and being updated on HIV & AIDS issues
- Protecting him/herself and colleagues
- Sharing information with colleagues and avoiding stigma and discrimination
GENDER
Concern Worldwide in Sierra Leone recognizes that the establishment of equality of opportunity between men and women is fundamental to both the achievement of fairness and to poverty elimination.
Therefore, each staff member of Concern is expected to be sensitive to equality issues in their relationships with colleagues and in their work and to participate in implementation of gender mainstreaming plans, both at the workplace and in programmes
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should apply with:
- An application letter clearly justifying how you meet the selection criteria
- Recent Curriculum Vitae including names and full contact addresses of three (3) referees, one of whom must be their current or most recent employer.
- Candidates must state the position of each referee and his/her relationship to the candidate.
- A copy of a valid labour card must be attached to ALL applications (written or electronic)
- Police Clearance will be required from the successful candidate
Applications should be sent either through email or by hard copy to the following addresses.
You can send through email to [email protected] OR deliver in Hard copy to the below locations
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 20 Old Railway Line – Signal Hill, Freetown
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 2B Shamel Street, Magburaka, Tonkolili.
HR Department, 25 Upper Kamara Lane, Back of EDSA substation, Port Loko
Please mark your application as per the references stated in position above
(by email please put the reference in the SUBJECT heading).
Closing date for receipt of applications for the above vacancy is on the Tuesday 18th November 2022
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
PLEASE NOTE THAT A COPY OF THE APPLICATION LETTER (written or typed) MUST BE SENT TO THE NGO DESK OFFICER, MINISTRY OF LABOUR, NEW ENGLAND OR EMAILED TO Email: [email protected]
“FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY”
