Job Description

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion Assistant is responsible for supporting the implementation of Community-Led Total Sanitation and Hygiene interventions within target communities. The role focuses on promoting positive hygiene and sanitation behaviours, facilitating community mobilisation and awareness campaigns, and supporting the effective delivery of WASH activities in line with organisational standards and national guidelines. The post holder will contribute to project implementation, monitoring, reporting, and learning processes while ensuring that interventions are inclusive, gender-responsive, and aligned with safeguarding and accountability principles. The role also involves strengthening the capacity of community structures, local partners, and government stakeholders through training, mentoring, and technical support, as well as fostering effective collaboration and coordination to achieve sustainable public health and sanitation outcomes. The Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion Assistant will support compliance with organisational policies, donor requirements, and humanitarian standards, and undertake any other duties assigned by the supervisor to support the successful delivery of programme objectives.

The Individual

Technical expertise, skills, and knowledge

• University degree in Environmental Health, water supply, public health or a related subject. Adequate experience in the field will substitute for formal qualifications.
• Minimum 2 years of the total experience of which experience in development and Emergency WASH sector is advantageous.
• Experience in hygiene promotion in a complex and demanding workload.
• Substantial experience in mobilizing community, planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting.
• Ability and willingness to travel and work in rural areas where the project is implemented, within approved security frameworks.

Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: As required by Plan International Programme Area.

Closing Date: November 12, 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.