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Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Field Promoter - WASH

Community Outreach & ProgramsPosted on Nov 12
Full-timePeruNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A technical or university graduate/egresado qualification in Environmental Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Public Health, Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, Education, Communication Sciences, Nursing, Obstetrics, or a related field.
  • Knowledge of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), hygiene promotion, community health, or community interventions.
  • Experience or knowledge facilitating community activities, strengthening capacities, and working with grassroots organizations, community leaders, and local institutions.
  • Knowledge of the social, economic, and territorial context of the project area, and experience collecting field information, registering participants, and monitoring community activities.
  • Ability to use digital information collection and management tools such as KoBoToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or similar tools.
  • Knowledge of participatory methodologies and a community-based approach.
  • At least two years of community work with families, communities, and vulnerable populations.
  • At least one year of experience implementing WASH, community health, community development, or humanitarian response projects.
  • Experience strengthening capacities, facilitating workshops and educational sessions, and supporting community leaders, grassroots organizations, and other local stakeholders.
  • Experience identifying, targeting, registering, and monitoring participants or beneficiary families.
  • Experience collecting field information, administering surveys, maintaining records, verifying data, and collecting means of verification.
  • Experience promoting hygiene practices, mobilizing communities, or conducting community awareness activities.
  • Availability for frequent travel to project intervention areas.
  • Applicants must provide evidence that they have no criminal, police, judicial, or other relevant records before selection.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to timely, high-quality implementation of project WASH activities, promoting informed community participation and safe, equitable access to planned services and interventions.
  • Coordinate with community leaders, local authorities, educational institutions, health facilities, and other key stakeholders to facilitate WASH activities.
  • Support the organization and delivery of information and hygiene-promotion sessions, community campaigns, workshops, and other project activities.
  • Promote safe practices for handwashing, water treatment and safe storage, and family and community sanitation and hygiene.
  • Help identify community needs related to water, sanitation, and hygiene.
  • Inform and advise families and communities about project objectives, participation criteria, scheduled activities, and available feedback channels.
  • Support identification, targeting, registration, and verification of participants according to project criteria.
  • Support distribution of hygiene kits, WASH supplies, and other project materials, and follow up on their appropriate use.
  • Apply information-collection tools for monitoring, accountability, learning, and measuring results.
  • Identify and promptly report protection risks, incidents, needs, and concerns observed during field activities.
  • Promote participants’ awareness of and access to project consultation, suggestion, complaint, and feedback mechanisms.
  • Keep activity records, databases, means of verification, and documentation up to date.
  • Prepare timely reports on activities, progress, incidents, and alerts.
  • Support capacity-strengthening activities for community leaders, community promoters, families, and other local stakeholders on WASH topics.
  • Facilitate participatory discussions to identify water, sanitation, and hygiene problems and solutions.
  • Promote active and inclusive participation by women, men, girls, boys, adolescents, and people with disabilities in project activities.
  • Disseminate key messages about hygiene, disease prevention, water care, and safe sanitation.
  • Contribute to adopting healthy practices that support the well-being and protection of participants.
  • Promote the integration of protection, safeguarding, gender, age, disability, and inclusion approaches in implemented activities.
  • Comply with child safeguarding, data protection, code of conduct, and other institutional policies and procedures.
  • Participate in training, induction, and capacity-strengthening sessions organized by the organization.
  • In emergencies, adapt flexibly to additional functions and responsibilities according to humanitarian response needs.
  • Support other role-related activities assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of basic water and sanitation infrastructure, hygiene promotion, or prevention of water- and sanitation-related diseases.
  • Experience with projects implemented by humanitarian, development, or international cooperation organizations.
  • Knowledge of protection, safeguarding, gender, inclusion, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) approaches.
  • Experience in community monitoring, surveys, focus groups, or community consultation processes.
  • Knowledge of humanitarian standards for WASH interventions, such as the Sphere Standards.
  • Experience with projects related to access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene promotion, water security, or community public health.
  • Experience distributing and monitoring hygiene supplies or kits, including post-distribution monitoring.
  • Experience working with educational institutions, health facilities, local governments, water and sanitation service administrative boards (JASS), community organizations, and other WASH-sector stakeholders.
  • Experience with community monitoring, accountability mechanisms, community consultations, and participation of children and adolescents.
  • Experience using digital tools to collect and manage field information.

About the Company

Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Save the Children is a global, independent charity that helps children in crisis and everyday life. It works in about 120 countries by running programs and campaigns that aim to keep children alive, protect them, help them develop, and let them participate in society. The organization directly delivers services and also advocates for policy changes, working with local partners and communities. Its approach combines field programs with advocacy and partnerships to reach millions of children—last year more than 55 million were helped through its work. What sets it apart is its large international footprint, its clear focus on children’s rights, and its commitment to transparency, collaboration, and integrity while pursuing concrete, measurable changes. The goal is to ensure every child has the right to survival, protection, development, and participation, and to drive immediate and lasting improvements in children’s lives.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1919

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