ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST/ HORTICULTURIST/FORESTRY (Contingent
upon funding)

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide technical inputs for developing IEC/BCC materials on environmental health, safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and household greening.
• Ensure that messages on tree plantation and care are integrated into WASH communication materials.
• Conduct training sessions for Social Mobilizers (male/female), community leaders, and Village Organizations on environmental stewardship, plantation, and sustainable WASH practices.
• Build local capacity on plant selection, plantation techniques, watering, and aftercare to ensure survival of household and village trees.
• Facilitate workshops with local government officials, teachers, and health workers to embed environmental WASH linkages.
• Provide technical guidance for tree plantation at the household level in target villages.
• Design and implement green households campaign linking hygiene, sanitation, and tree plantation benefits (e.g., shade, nutrition, air quality).
• Supervise field teams during plantation drives ensuring use of indigenous, climate-resilient species.
• Track survival rates of household trees and provide corrective guidance.
• Ensure project compliance with environmental and safeguard standards (national regulations and donor frameworks).
• Prepare progress reports highlighting environmental and WASH linkages, plantation outcomes, and community capacity development