Project Associate, Hygiene (WASH)

This field-based role delivers IOM’s hygiene-promotion and community-engagement work across WASH camps in Cox’s Bazar. The Project Associate will monitor partner activities, support community participation and behaviour-change work, build the capacity of field teams and committees, and use field data and feedback to improve safe, inclusive WASH services for Rohingya communities.

• Monitor hygiene-promotion and community-engagement activities by WASH partners for quality and alignment with sector guidance
• Coordinate hygiene-promotion activities and WASH non-food-item distribution with camp staff and warehouse teams
• Conduct field visits to monitor construction and support community-led operation and maintenance of WASH facilities
• Train and mentor volunteers, hygiene promoters and WASH committee members on hygiene practices and participatory approaches
• Collect and analyse health, hygiene-behaviour and community-satisfaction data to improve programme planning
• Support behavioural research and culturally appropriate information, education and communication materials
• Strengthen inclusive community WASH committees and engage with the Cox's Bazar WASH-sector technical working group

• University degree in public health, community development, environmental science or a relevant field with at least three years of field experience, or School diploma with five years of relevant experience
• Minimum three years of hygiene-promotion, community-engagement or behaviour-change experience
• Fluency in English and Bengali
• Open to Bangladesh nationals

• Work experience with international humanitarian organisations or NGOs in multicultural settings
• Chittagonian or Rohingya language

• Hygiene Promotion
• Community Engagement
• Behaviour Change
• WASH Programming
• Field Monitoring
• Capacity Building
• Community Mobilisation
• Data Collection

• Official source conflict: Structured duty-station metadata gives Cox's Bazar, while the narrative says the post is based in Ukhiya
• Extensive field movement across seven IOM WASH camps