General Assignment: To manage WASH program activities, staffs and coordinate with government line bureaus and humanitarian actors in ARS. He/she will be involved in all the project cycle (assessment, proposal writing, implementation, M&E, and report writing to all stakeholders).
Responsibilities: 1: Contribute to the definition and implementation of ACF Policies, positioning and strategies in the mission:
Implements, in the framework of his projects, the missions WaSH strategy taking into account the key internal and external documents: ACF charter, 2015 strategic framework, policies (WaSH and other ACF sector), Positioning papers (WaSH and transversals), national strategies and other specific legal framework enforced by the body/department in charge of WaSH issues;
Contributes to the definitions of the missions WaSH strategy in cooperation with WaSH TA’s.
2: Contribute to the identification, definition, formulation of WaSH projects: Responsible for the geographic areas of intervention and working with target populations of:
Needs assessments and related reports. These reports must be written and transmitted to the WaSH coordinator;
Writing and submission to the WaSH TA’s of WaSH related parts of the proposals (proposal narratives, budget and LFA);
Follow up the general situation (AWD, Outbreaks, humanitarian crisis,…) of intervention areas and immediately forward feedback.
3: Ensure projects implementation, monitoring and reporting:
Masters preferably his project(s) and related stakes, Logical framework and indicators (LFA). Has got printed copies of all projects contractual documents and ensures that his team is aware of them;
Develop technical guidelines for the implementation of his projects and have them validated by WaSH TA’s;
Plans the implementation of his projects activities;
Supervises the implementation of projects activities using ACF tools (APR, DIP, Budget follow up…);
Contribute to and promote the monthly budget follow up;
Implements donor and ACF visibility on the working sites of his projects;
Responsible for the implementation in the working sites of the safety measures/rules for both ACF teams (including daily hired) and the populations/public;
Implement transparency and accountability measures vis-à-vis the project beneficiaries, by making them participate throughout the project cycle;
Undertake feasibility study, design WSP and sanitation projects, prepare DIP, prepare tender document for contracted out projects, and prepare procurement plan for items will procure at base and AA level;
Ensure sanitation and hygiene approaches and interventions will bring behavioural change within the community;
Undertake reports (Donor report, government quarter report, monthly ACF report, contextual assessment report, KAP analysis report, terminal report,) and share to line manager.
4: Ensure Local ACF representation and coordination with other stakeholders within the intervention area:
Coordinates ACF’s action with other stakeholders working in the intervention area;
Support capacity building of ACF WaSH partners in the area of intervention;
Promotes partnership with Local NGO’s , including capacity building, at district/provincial/regional level.
5: Contribute to evaluation (internal and external) of projects effect/impact:
Contribute to the definitions of external evaluations (opportunities, ToR,….), supports external evaluators (during their missions), and implement recommendations coming out from external evaluations;
Implement a double KAP for all his projects;
Ensure and follow up data are properly prepared, codded, collected, analysed and reported;
Ensure participatory monitoring of projects and update the result for relevant stakes in consultation with WaSH TA’s;
Collect data using GPS and plot on the intervention area map.
6: Contribute pro-actively to HR management (including national staff career plan development):
Is the functional and hierarchical manager for the WaSH teams working on his project(S);
Takes part activities in the recruitment and the training of his staffs, in cooperation with the administrator or the logistic- administrator office;
Ensure the evaluation (performance appraisal) of his staff;
Ensure that WaSH staffs weekly movement plan are inconformity with meeting objectives of the program;
Follow up staff movement (per-diem, day-offs, annual leave..) logistical needs.
7: Contribute to the mission’s capitalization and to ACF communication:
Writes and submits a handover/mission reports when his mission is over using the ACF format;
Ensure the compilation on a soft drive of all essential documents related to his project(s) and transmits them to the WaSH TA’s. The WaSH TA’s will ensure that technically validated documents are further disseminated;
Ensure compilation of soft drive of all relevant pictures of his project(s). these photos have to be transmitted to the communication department during the end of mission debriefing period at the HQ;
In Link with the WaSH TA’s and update information;
Contribute to the definition and implementation of capitalisation/technical research topics;
Contribute to the setup of ACF WaSH database in the mission;
Representing ACF participate in the regional joint WaSH assessments, surveillances, and taskforce meetings and forward feedbacks on time to line managers.
Job Requirement
Qualifications and skills:
Education: Engineering degree or equivalent in the field related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and training/courses specific to WaSH in humanitarian contexts with a minimum of 2-years working experience.
Required skill: Applied skill on water, sanitation and hygiene projects management (public health, engineering…) interpersonal skill (team management, communication, reporting, autonomy, organization skill, staff development, creative and innovative thinking, leadership skill, strategic decision making and planning, delegation of work, management of staffs, team building…).