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Public Health Promotion Team Leader(Re-advertised)

Oxfam

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Posted 4 days ago

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Join Oxfam in the fight against poverty as a Public Health Promotion Team Leader in South Sudan.

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Organisation summary Oxfam is a globally renowned aid and development charity with 70 years of experience, working and campaigning with partners in over 90 countries worldwide.

Role Summary

  • Lead public health promotion (PHP) activities within South Sudan.
  • Ensure effective implementation of integrated public health engineering and promotion strategies.
  • Manage teams and engage with stakeholders.
  • Safeguard public health through promoting safe WASH practices and active community involvement in WASH services.

Role Requirements

  • Degree in Public Health, Environmental Health, or related field, with minimum 5 years’ experience in humanitarian WASH/public health programming.
  • Experience in designing and leading public health promotion interventions in crisis settings.
  • Strong understanding of epidemiology and outbreak control measures.
  • Ability to apply behaviour change approaches to influence hygiene practices.
  • Knowledge of Sphere Standards and Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
  • Experience integrating hygiene promotion with water supply and sanitation infrastructure.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership in inter-agency coordination.
  • Experience managing teams and building capacity of local partners.

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. Do you have: Degree in Public Health, Environmental Health, or related field, with minimum 5 years’ experience in humanitarian WASH/public health programming (experience may substitute for formal qualification where relevant). Demonstrated experience in designing and leading public health promotion interventions in emergency and protracted crisis settings, including cholera and other waterborne disease responses. Strong understanding of epidemiology, disease surveillance, and outbreak control measures, including Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you. The Role: Oxfam GB is looking for Public Health Promotion Team Leader who will be: Responsible for leading public health promotion (PHP) activities within South Sudan, ensuring the effective implementation of integrated public health engineering and promotion strategies. The role involves managing teams, engaging with stakeholders, and safeguarding public health through promoting safe WASH practices and active community involvement in WASH service. What we are looking for: We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do. An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have: Degree in Public Health, Environmental Health, or related field, with minimum 5 years’ experience in humanitarian WASH/public health programming (experience may substitute for formal qualification where relevant). Demonstrated experience in designing and leading public health promotion interventions in emergency and protracted crisis settings, including cholera and other waterborne disease responses. Strong understanding of epidemiology, disease surveillance, and outbreak control measures, including Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Proven ability to apply behaviour change approaches (e.g., CLTS, PHAST, SBC, Barrier Analysis) to influence hygiene practices at scale. Solid knowledge of Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), and humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). Experience integrating hygiene promotion with water supply, sanitation infrastructure, and environmental health interventions, including water safety planning. Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to use data (assessments, PDM, monitoring indicators) to inform programme design and adaptation. Demonstrated leadership in inter-agency coordination, including active participation in WASH/Health Cluster platforms and representation of the organisation. Experience managing teams, including capacity building of community hygiene promoters, local partners, and government counterparts. We offer: We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here. How to apply: As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

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