The purpose of the WASH & Infrastructure officer is to ensure that all the WASH aspects detailed in the project including hygiene promotion at community and health facility level, rehabilitation and maintenance of WASH infrastructure at community and health facility level; are undertaken in a professional manner as per the standard design, specification and guidelines of the project and WASH cluster. The WASH officer ensures that the project proposal and plans are on time on budget, adhere to national, cluster, international, and Concern guidelines. The WASH officer will work closely and liaise with the government health structure including the Regional Health Bureau, Woreda Health and Water offices, other implementing agencies, other Concern teams and the community. He/she is this charged to ensure collaboration with all the relevant stakeholders at all levels of the project implementation; kebele, Woreda and at the regional level.
Main duties & Responsibilities:
Technical Support and Facilitation
Undertake jointly with relevant authorities at the Woreda level an assessment of the WASH situation at the health facility level and provide recommendation to address existing WASH gaps at those health facilities.
Provide detailed technical reports to the Project manager following such assessments.
In liaison with senior officer and other team members organize and undertake relevant training on WASH to the health facility staff, project staff and project beneficiaries
Ensure strong project management of all WASH interventions so that projects are designed and implemented on time, within scope and budget and achieve high quality outputs
Follow up WASH project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
To ensure an integrated and multi sectoral approach to WASH programming, assist the team in finding ways to integrate/link and combine hygiene & health promotion, water and sanitation facilities design, construction & maintenance, with Health , Nutrition, protection etc.
Ensure that cross cutting issues are main streamed into WASH programmes.
Provide regular progress reports to Project Manager
Preparation of detailed work plans, technical drawings, bills of quantity, procurement plan and bid documents for the implementation of WASH projects as necessary.
Identify and address capacity building opportunities for both concern staff and line ministry staff; Health, Water bureau and others at Woreda level as necessary.
Emergency Response:
Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.
Accountability :
In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.
Safeguarding:
Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
Practises in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including carers, family members and children at risk.
Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record-keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.
Gender Equality:
Contribute to the development of gender sensitive action plans and indicators for WASH projects
Assist in monitoring the implementation of the action plans and indicator progress and make suggestions for corrective action/change as needed
Contribute to ensuring Concern Ethiopia has a gender sensitive working environment and attend gender equality trainings and organizational conversations
Job Requirement
Person specification:
BSc. in Hydraulics, Sanitary or Water Resource Engineering and related fields from recognized university.
At least four (4) years relevant work experiences in WASH activities at community, health institutions and schools both for emergency and development settings
Appropriate technical skills training and computer software; practical knowledge of Autocad is a must.
Excellent written and spoken English and Local language (Somali) is mandatory
Core Competencies:
Knowledge of participatory processes
Team work
Analytical skills
Interpersonal communication
Capacity Building/Trainings
Ability to plan own work, set priorities, complete work under pressure or when faced with competing demands and report.
Committed to CWW’s vision, mission and core values