Kenya: Household Nutrition and WASH Manager

The Kenya Integrated Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (KIWASH) Project is a five-year, USAID-funded project to improve lives and health through the development and management of sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services in Kenya. Its purpose is to institutionalize catalytic models of sustainable service delivery for accelerated water and sanitation access in nine target counties and to improve complementary hygiene behaviors.

Summary of Primary Duties

The Household Nutrition and WASH Specialist will support the Agriculture & Nutrition Advisor to roll-out and monitor integrated KIWASH nutrition and WASH activities in the target counties. He or she will support the design and roll-out Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) and Essential WASH Actions (EWA) messaging, behavior change communications strategies, and training/ToT for KIWASH stakeholders.

Essential Duties

· Work with stakeholders to increase access to and adoption of improved sanitation and uptake of key hygiene behaviors;

· Provide technical assistance on service delivery of water and solid waste management;

· Collaborate with Kenyan Health Systems and Services at the country/county level to promote EWA and ENA efforts;

· Reinforce the work of KIWASH’s behavior change communications partners to promote EWA and ENA efforts and complement other WASH initiatives;

· Promote Safe Water and Hygiene Kits as an incentive for early and frequent antenatal care, in line with the integration of WASH in nutrition assessment, counseling, and support;

· Promote integration of WASH messaging in Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) corners in health facilities

· Create and promote nutrition messaging that focuses on ensuring adequate dietary practices must accompany increased production of nutritious foods;

· Deliver nutrition messaging to promote preparation and consumption of nutrient dense and diverse foods;

· Distribute/disseminate agricultural information and information regarding improved technologies to the rural poor to improve nutrition and potentially increase incomes through sales of excess produce;

· Promote the use of small-scale irrigation kits for use on kitchen gardens whose primary goal will be to diversify production to increase the intake of micronutrients at the household level;

· Track consumption of nutrient-rich and diversified foods at the household level;

· Regular and timely inputs into KIWASH bi-weekly, quarterly, and annual reports, as well as annual work plan;

· Participate in generation of evidence, documentation of best practices and lessons learned;

· Other tasks as required by supervisor(s).

Supervisory Responsibilities

· The Nairobi-based Household Nutrition and WASH Manager will supervise Nutrition and WASH Specialists in Kitui and Makueni. The Kisumu-based Manager will supervise WASH Specialists in Busia, Kakamega, Migori, Nyamira, and Siaya.

Qualifications

· 7+ years of experience working in WASH-related programs (nutrition, water supply, sanitation, hygiene and/or water resources management as it pertains to water and sanitation services) in East Africa;

· Master’s degree in a related area preferred;

· Experience in working on community-based nutrition, water supply and sanitation program implementation, with service delivery mechanisms, including cost and recovery mechanisms;

· Knowledge and experience working on Kenyan nutrition, water supply and sanitation issues;

· English language written and verbal fluency.

Base of Operations

· The Position will be based in Nairobi with occasional travel to Kitui and Makueni

Reporting

· The Household Nutrition and WASH Specialist will report to the Agriculture and Nutrition Advisor.

Qualified candidates should e-mail their CV toKIWASH_Recruitment@dai.comby November 13, 2015, indicating position of interest in the subject line.