Community Facilitator, WASH-SRHR Project

• PositionCommunity Facilitator, WASH-SRHR Project
• CompanyWaterAid
• LocationBuyende, Uganda
• Job TypeContract
• CategoryNGO, Health, International Development Jobs in Uganda
• IndustryWater, sanitation and hygiene and international development
• DepartmentProgramme Department
• DeadlineApplications will close at 12:00 PM (UK time) on 25th November 2026. (3:00 PM Africa/Kampala)

WaterAid is an international non-profit working to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere. The organisation began in 1981 and works alongside communities to develop safe and sustainable water and sanitation services.

WaterAid Uganda says its country programme prioritises sustainable WASH in health sectors and climate resilience. The programme works with partners and communities, and the organisation connects policy makers, experts, local partners and communities to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

The Community Facilitator works across assigned sub-counties and parishes in Buyende, linking women, adolescents, men, people with disabilities, local leaders and service providers. The job includes explaining project activities, arranging accessible dialogues and campaigns, forming community action groups, and supporting peer circles, safe spaces, savings groups and mother-caregiver sessions. The facilitator also helps run feedback channels, service monitoring, client-satisfaction surveys and referrals, and supports hygiene activities in schools and health facilities.

This is a full-time, field-based role reporting to the Project Officer, with daily travel to project sites on foot or by motorbike. The full JD says the facilitator lives in or near the assigned area, has no direct reports and has no budget responsibility, but must account promptly for any funds advanced. Applicants need the stated education or diploma-plus-field-experience route, at least three years of relevant work, Lusoga and English, a motorcycle permit and willingness to travel daily. WaterAid highlights safeguarding and inclusion throughout the work.

In plain terms, this job splits into 5 areas of work. Each list below restates the employer’s duties in shorter words; the advert linked under How To Apply is the final word.

Project communication and access

The facilitator keeps local people informed, organises inclusive participation and maintains community links across the assigned area.

• Brief community members, local leaders and facility users on programme plans in ways accessible to women, adolescents and people with disabilities.
• Arrange inclusive attendance at dialogues, training, scorecards, barazas, monitoring visits and campaigns, adjusting venues, timing and resources.
• Update the assigned-area directory of settlements, local representatives, community groups and contact persons.
• Form and train local action groups, helping members identify harmful practices and agree how to address them promptly.

Dialogue and peer learning

The role supports discussions on services and social norms, plus structured learning sessions for men, adolescents and community groups.

• Facilitate quarterly community conversations about access barriers to SRHR and WASH, recording concerns and agreed follow-up.
• Support ongoing dialogue with men, faith and cultural leaders, adolescents and women's groups to address harmful gender and social norms.
• Deliver the Together We Decide and Journeys Plus curricula to men and adolescent boys and girls, following programme guidance.
• Support girls’ and disabled women’s peer-learning circles, alongside safe spaces for adolescents.

Health promotion and groups

The facilitator supports local hygiene promotion, savings groups, caregiver sessions and referral links to health facilities.

• Promote menstrual health, handwashing and sanitation activities, sharing information in accessible forms and local languages.
• Help savings and loan associations led by women or young people meet, save and keep records.
• Work with mentor mothers and village health teams on caregiver sessions and referrals to facilities.
• Assist facility and school activities, including hygiene and handwashing, and check materials stay usable and clean.

Feedback and safeguarding

The role supports accountability, documents service concerns, manages feedback routes and escalates safeguarding matters through agreed channels.

• Support accountability structures at community and facility level.
• Support participatory monitoring, scorecards, quarterly joint visits and barazas; log issues and follow up with facility leads and local leaders.
• Establish secure, anonymous ways to share concerns, recording each case and forwarding it within the set timelines.
• Route protection concerns, including sexual and gender-based violence, through agreed referral pathways.
• Report safeguarding concerns to the Project Officer that day; never promise confidentiality you cannot maintain.

Project coordination and reporting

The facilitator supports project logistics and monitoring, provides regular updates and carries out assigned work while upholding WaterAid commitments.

• Support client satisfaction surveys.
• Help organise training, mentoring, coordination and review meetings, arranging invitations, venues, materials, attendance and follow-up.
• Join the Project Officer on requested field checks, including WASH audits and general monitoring activity.
• Send the Project Officer weekly work schedules and monthly progress updates.
• Complete other reasonable tasks assigned to support delivery of the project.
• Promote WaterAid's commitments to fairness, inclusion and safeguarding.

Required Education

• A bachelor's degree in public health, community development, social work, environmental health or a related field. The employer will consider a diploma with strong field experience.

Work Experience

• At least three years' experience in community mobilisation, health promotion, or WASH, SRHR or gender projects.
• Experience facilitating groups and working with village health teams, local leaders and people with disabilities.

Additional Requirements

• Good spoken and written communication and basic reporting skills.
• Able to use a smartphone or tablet to collect data.
• Fluent Lusoga and English, and good knowledge of the Buyende community and its culture.
• A valid motorcycle riding permit and willingness to travel to project sites every day.
• The full JD places the role in assigned sub-counties and parishes in Buyende District; it says the facilitator lives in or near the assigned area and reports to the Project Officer.
• The full JD states a full-time, fixed-term contract subject to funding and a satisfactory probation period; the Workable advert describes the contract as renewable based on performance and funding.
• The role has no direct reports and no budget responsibility; any funds advanced must be accounted for on time.
• Training or experience in gender transformative approaches, adolescent SRHR, or safeguarding is preferred.
• Experience with village savings and loan associations, community scorecards or participatory methods is preferred.
• Basic skills in sign language or other ways to communicate with people with disabilities are preferred.
• Living in the project area is preferred.
• Applicants must demonstrate eligibility to work in Uganda.
• Complete the pre-screening questions and upload a CV and essential cover letter in English.
• WaterAid advises applicants not to use AI at any stage of the recruitment process.

Technical Skills

• Mobile data collection: Use a smartphone or tablet to collect data.
• Community reporting: Prepare weekly activity plans and monthly reports for the Project Officer.
• Inclusive WASH-SRHR promotion: Support hygiene, menstrual health, hand hygiene and sanitation activities using accessible formats and local languages.

Soft Skills

• Group facilitation: Facilitate dialogues and work with village health teams, local leaders and people with disabilities.
• Community communication: Communicate fluently in Lusoga and English and understand Buyende community culture.
• Inclusion and safeguarding: Champion equity, inclusion and safeguarding commitments and adapt participation to accessibility needs.

The Workable advert states competitive salaries with excellent benefits. The full JD says salary is as per WaterAid Uganda’s salary scale; it does not itemise specific benefits.

• Work directly with communities, health facilities and schools in Buyende.
• Support WASH-SRHR work with women, adolescents and people with disabilities.
• Facilitate quarterly community dialogues and sessions with local groups.
• Support Together We Decide and Journeys Plus sessions.
• Contribute to hygiene and menstrual-health promotion in local languages.
• Help women- and youth-led savings groups meet and maintain records.
• The advert states competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

Complete the pre-screening questions and upload your CV and an essential cover letter in English through the WaterAid application form. Applications close at 12:00 PM (UK time) on 25th November 2026, equivalent to 3:00 PM Africa/Kampala.

• Checked on 14 November 2026 against WaterAid's official advert.
• Closing date confirmed as 25 November 2026. NextRoleHub closes the listing at 23:59 Kampala time that day.
• The application link goes to the employer's own page or email. Applying is free; report anyone who asks for money.
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