Action Against Hunger is the world’s hunger specialist and leader in a global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. For 40 years, the humanitarian and development organization has been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger across nearly 50 countries. It served more than 21 million people in 2018 alone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: WASH Hygiene Officer
Location: Katsina
Reporting to: WASH Deputy Program Manager
Key Responsibilities
Objective 1: Overall supervision of public health promotion and Non-food items distribution activities following ACF’s local strategy and International Guidelines:
- Ensure that a KAP baseline survey is carried out, analysis done and hygiene promotion strategy is designed based on the findings (for projects more than three months long)
- Identify various target groups in geographical area
- Plan, design, and deliver hygiene promotion activities, including community mobilization and awareness campaigns as specified in proposal documents.
- Ensure in collaboration of partners, hygiene promotion sessions are conducted using different approaches (PHAST, CHAST, WASH EM, CATI), in communities, Health facilities, schools, and other institutions.
- Promote the implementation of the BabyWash approach and collect the relevant data to improve context-specific BabyWash hygiene promotion interventions
- In coordination with the WASH Managers, revise and adapt hygiene promotion training material to local context and in line with target groups to be trained
- In coordination with the WASH Managers, revise and adapt all IEC materials in line with the local context. This should be drawn up as a communication plan
- Ensure that all monitoring is done in line with the agreed monitoring format
- Continually assess emergency needs, as requested, especially taking in the broader perspective of public health
- Plan beneficiary selection and registration, and lead the distribution of NFI kits with the Field Assistant team
- Ensure that work meets with SPHERE minimum standards
- Assist the WASH Manager with, and where required participate in, community mobilisation
- Ensure that all technical work reflects the needs and preferences of different target groups
- Conduct WASH FIT assessment with other ACF team and stakeholders for all implementing Health facilities.
Objective 2: Train and build the capacity of staffs and partners:
- Ensure that the PHP team members (both Volunteers and staff) and partners are fully aware of the hygiene promotion Strategy and all activities are in line with strategy activities.
- Prepare training tools on relevant technical topics and conduct trainings for both internal staff and external stakeholders
- Assist the WASH Program Manager in the development of technical guidelines and tools
- Assess areas for improvement and record lessons learnt for future activities.
Objective 3. Coordinate with internal staffs, and local stakeholders to ensure smooth project implementation:
- Liaise closely with the WASH manager throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of WASH technical activities.
- Represent ACF at local level WASH meetings and technical working groups relating to Public health promotion and NFI distribution as required by your line manager.
Objective 4: Supervise and manage staff under your responsibility:
- Participate in staff recruitment in line with the agreed organogram structure.
- Provide day-to-day management of staff directly under your responsibility.
- Set objectives with staff under your direct management, and appraise their performance in accordance with ACF performance management policies, identifying areas where they require support and capacity building
- Ensure that your team coordinates and integrates with WASH technical team members.
- Ensure that gender issues are taken into account
- Closely work and track the activities of partners to ensure they are in accordance with the project contract agreement.
- Report regularly, verbally and in writing, to the WASH Program Manager.
Position Requirements
- Degree / HND in Public health, Health education, sociology, rural development, and other related fields
- Previous experience in supervising hygiene promotion activities such as Emergency hygiene promotion, WASH Ems, PHAST, CHAST and BabyWASH approach and WASH kits distribution. Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
- Three years relevant work experience
- Microsoft Office software Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Fluency in Hausa, English and Kanuri is an advantage
- Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy
- Previous experience of work in the humanitarian sector
- Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
- Previous donor programming experience (e.g. CIFF, ECHO, SIDA).
Application Closing Date
9th November, 2026 at 05:00 pm (Nigerian Time).
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
