Community Development Specialist
The Lusaka Water & Sewerage Company Limited
mission is to provide quality water and sanitation
services at commercially and environmentally
sustainable levels to the delight of our customers and
other stakeholders. In order to achieve this, the
Company seeks to recruit dynamic and energetic high
caliber staff who should be performance driven with
exceptional competencies.
mission is to provide quality water and sanitation
services at commercially and environmentally
sustainable levels to the delight of our customers and
other stakeholders. In order to achieve this, the
Company seeks to recruit dynamic and energetic high
caliber staff who should be performance driven with
exceptional competencies.
The Company is inviting applications from suitably
qualified and experienced Zambians to fill the under
listed vacancies that have fallen vacant under its
Directorate of Infrastructure Planning and
Development.
Position Title: Community Development Specialist
Reports to: Manager Lusaka Sanitation Program
Department: Lusaka Sanitation Program
Location: Lusaka
Job Purpose:
To implement sanitation marketing, community
development and hygiene promotion activities in
peri-urban areas in order to enhance community
participation, social and behavioral change among
communities and increase sanitation service
coverage under the Lusaka Sanitation Program
Key Responsibilities
– Ensure that all activities relating to health and
hygiene are carried out to raise awareness and
create demand for sanitation services
– Coordinate the promotion and implementation of
output based funding mechanism among customers
for easy access to funds for sanitation services in
Peri-urban areas
– Coordinate and carry out all needs assessments,
evaluations and surveys related to sanitation and
hygiene promotion
– Facilitate networks and synergies among public,
private and civic organisations to act on key health
and hygiene challenges to enhance access to
sanitation services for the urban poor
– Develop IEC materials for stakeholders and
communities on sanitation issues to raise awareness
– Prepare training programs for sanitation activities
and ensure all the logistics are in place
– Develop Monitoring and Evaluation tools for
community led sanitation and carry out monitoring
and to ensure sustainability
– Coordinate and supervise timely payment of the
contributions by the beneficiaries under the output
based sanitation funding mechanism to enhance
sense of ownership among the communities
– Establish and oversee Community based Sanitation
& Hygiene Social Responsibility Teams (CSHSRT) in all
Peri-urban areas to facilitate sanitation and hygiene
promotion in the communities
– Write and produce leaflets, posters, videos and
brochures to aid health promotion in different
enviroments
– Provide input into consultancy works related to
community development under the project
– Prepare and submit periodic reports to
management
Qualifications and Experience
– Minimum of a degree in Social Sciences
– At least 5 years of experience in water supply and
sanitation sector
– Must demonstrate experience in hygiene
education, sanitation marketing, community
mobilization and social inclusion
All applications together with photocopies of
certificates, detailed curriculum vitae should reach
the Director Human Resources and Administration
not later than Thursday 13th August, 2015.
Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company
Plot No. 871, Katemo Road
Rhodes Park
Post Office Box 50198
