• Application Deadline: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Sanitation Marketing Officer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 3 - 5 years



• Location Borno




• City Maiduguri




• Job Field NGO/Non-Profit  , Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct proper operational findings on sanitation marketing that are evidence-based on current practices;


• Undertake continuous feedback from the community, vendors, and producers on how to adapt and improve the product and customer satisfaction


• Develop a sanitation marketing strategy based on the 4Ps (Price, Product, Place, Promotion)


• Conduct a market survey, identify goals, and develop a market plan


• Support barrier analysis on the use of latrines through the various options recommended


• Coordinate with local vendors to implement a sanitation marketing approach, improving the quality and sustainability of household latrines.


• Lead the implementation of hygiene promotion activities in communities, health facilities, and schools.


• Implement Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) awareness campaigns targeting adolescents, girls, and women of reproductive age.


• Assist the Programme Manager with, and where required to participate in, community mobilization;


• Ensure that all technical work reflects the needs and preferences of different target groups.


• Ensure the provision of tools, equipment, and training to health facility staff on the operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities.


• Organize meetings with community members to develop their sales ability. Work on sales pitches, having structured sales conversations, developing conversations, and closing deal


• Coaching sales teams and working one-on-one on sales;


• Setting up systems to monitor program quality from artisan;


• Identification and sensitization of local artisans on various latrine designs and construction with the signing of an MOU in collaboration with stakeholders;


• Develop an inventory of trained artisans in each community including participating in vendors’ selection;


• Train and build the capacity of Community Health Influencers, Promoters, and Services (CHIPS) and other stakeholders on hygiene promotion and sanitation practices;


• Select and train gender champions from WASH Committees (WASHCOMs) to address gender and protection-related issues and to serve as MHM champions;


• Collaborate with ward development committees and local government units, such as LGA WASH units and RUWASA, to ensure sustainability;


• Assess areas for improvement and record lessons learnt for future activities;


• Design strategy for working territory, setting up sales appointments, scheduling, and mapping territory;


• Ensure implementation of CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation), PHAST (Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation), and CHAST (Child Hygiene and Sanitation Training); methodologies to eliminate open defecation;


• Develop monitoring systems for sales based on controller inputs mot sales (e.g  Number of hours worked per day;  sales calls; sales conversation.  Number of signed contract);


• Work in collaboration with community mobilizers officers in the implementation of a Behavioural Change Communication strategy in relation to sanitation marketing;


• Monitor the construction of subsidized household latrines with high-quality materials that will be durable and cost-effective in terms of maintenance;


• Develop promotion materials to support the selling of products;


• Run workshops and collect feedback on materials;


• Working with local media influencers and advocacy teams to develop material to push the products on social media;


• Develop a dynamic partnership with local celebrities;


• Support production of radio, promotional video, TV, and creative outlets;


• Link promotion with local events.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in public and Environmental Health, Social Sciences, Marketing, Water Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Hydraulics and Water Resource Development, and other related fields;


• At least 3-5 years of experience in hygiene promotion, health education, or community mobilization, preferably within the NGO sector;


• Have a strong understanding of hygiene promotion principles, behavior change communication, marketing, and public health approaches while working with International and National NGOs or Government agencies;


• Experience working with Sales Teams;


• Previous experience in implementing CLTS and sanitation marketing;


• Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible, and culturally sensitive;


• Microsoft Office software Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word);


• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited;


• Fluency in English, Hausa, Kanuri, and Shuwa languages.