Pooling: Field Officer (WASH/Shelter) (Filipino Nationals Only)

Accion Contra el Hambre; Philippines; On-site; PHP 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Action Against Hunger in the Philippines seeks a field-led WASH and Shelter focal point to lead emergency response activities. The role focuses on promoting hygiene, distributing WASH and shelter kits, ensuring water supply, and fostering community involvement to safeguard public health.

You will coordinate with local authorities and partners, organize training for mobilizers, and monitor indicators while maintaining inclusive participation and clear reporting to the Head of Project.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering (Sanitary, Civil), or other relevant fields.
• Mobilization of community issues in WASH and Shelter activities.
• Familiarity with local culture; ability to communicate hygiene matters and safe shelter awareness.
• 1–3 years of experience in community organizing, WASH, and shelter-related work with local government and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of the Emergency Response context.
• Excellent English and Filipino; local dialect is a plus.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Experience promoting gender equality is valued.

Responsibilities

• Improve access to WASH services and safeguard public health among affected populations.
• Plan and implement emergency WASH and shelter activities; supervise kit distributions and water provision.
• Coordinate with camps, communities, humanitarian actors, and government staff; daily reporting of field activities.
• Deliver hygiene promotion and safe shelter awareness sessions; mobilize communities and build local task forces.

Skills

Community mobilization

Public health communication

Intercultural communication

Emergency response awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Job description

• Improve access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services among the affected population.
• In charge of WASH activities about safeguarding and improving the public health of the affected and the most vulnerable population. The post-holder is responsible for implementing emergency hygiene promotion activities, distributing WASH and shelter kits, ensuring the distribution of water supplies, promoting appropriate community involvement, and delivering essential WASH and Shelter services. They also provide positive acceptance of Action Against Hunger in the intervention area.

Objective 1. Emergency Response

• Conduct continuous emergency assessment in affected areas to determine the progressing needs and gaps.
• Identify the emergency WASH and Shelter needs and assist in the planning and implementation of the emergency WASH and shelter activities, such as WASH and shelter kit distribution, emergency water supply provision, hygiene promotion, and safe shelter awareness sessions.
• Coordination with camps, communities, humanitarian actors, and Government staff at the field level
• Daily reporting and updates of field activities

Objective 2. Programming

• Conducting and monitoring of emergency hygiene promotion and safe shelter awareness sessions in the targeted community.
• Identification, conduct of training, and follow-up of activities of community mobilizers as well as teachers, daycare workers, BHWs, BNS, and youth groups for emergency hygiene promotion and safe shelter awareness
• Ensure household and school-level hygiene promotion and safe shelter awareness activities are conducted in coordination with relevant agencies in the field.
• Facilitate the creation and capacity building of Provincial, Municipal WASH, and Shelter Task Forces & Councils, and BAWASA for the sustainability of WASH and Shelter inputs.
• Conduct continuous assessments and surveys to identify and design a hygiene promotion strategy in coordination and consultation with the Head of Project.
• Ensuring maximum utilization of water and sanitation facilities.
• Organize & supervise the distribution of WASH and shelter kits.
• Assist the team in planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring the Hygiene Promotion and safe shelter awareness session component of the Action Against Hunger Program.
• Responsible for mobilization of communities, including project buy-in, identification of local resources, and management of community expectations.
• Monitor WASH and Shelter program indicators regularly with extra emphasis on community awareness on WASH, Shelter, and public health risk in coordination with relevant line agencies.
• Encourage and stimulate full participation by all community members, with special attention to those who are marginalized and overlooked in community decision-making (inclusive approach), and develop trust, tolerance, and cooperation among the community members through the mobilization process.
• Collect relevant data required related to key indicators from the community and other stakeholders, and prepare regular reports.
• Facilitate distribution of essential hygiene materials, where required, and within project design
• Participate in any survey required for the work of Action Against Hunger.

Objective 3: Reporting

• Weekly (or each time necessary) written and oral report for the line manager.
• Ensure that the following SOVs will be submitted within five working days after the completion of activities:
  • Beneficiary Listing Form and Receiving Forms for WASH and Shelter Kits
  • Activity Reports related to Hygiene Promotion & Safe Shelter Awareness Session, WASH and Shelter Kit Distribution, and emergency water supply provision.
  • Water Supply Distribution Report
• Report any damage to the project/project facility caused by natural or human-made calamity and properly record WASH and Shelter-related field implementation progress
• Archiving project technical documents systematically to facilitate organizational-level learning, memory, and reporting.
• Consolidate annual technical reports of Action Against Hunger project teams and of partners

Objective 4: Security

• Adhere to the Mission Reporting system and submit the reports requested on-time
• Respect the Security rules of Action Against Hunger and coordinate with the Security Focal and Logistics Coordiantor for any security issues relating to work
• Report any security or other incidents in the field that may interrupt project activities directly to the Security Focal and Logistics Coordinator.

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering (Sanitary, Civil), or other relevant fields
• Technical Knowledge:
  • Mobilization of the community conflict related issues in WASH, and Shelter activities.
  • Familiarity with the local culture, ability to develop respect from a wide range of people, and strong ability to communicate effectively on hygiene matters, and safe shelter awareness.
• 1 to 3 years’ experience in community organizing, WASH, and shelter-related work (development), and work with local government units and other stakeholders.
• Knowledgeable of the Emergency Response context
• Excellent English and Filipino language. Speaking the local dialect is an advantage.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office computer programs, including Word, Excel & PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Valuable prior experience in issues related to the promotion of gender equality or personal commitment to gender equality.

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.