Location: Awassa, Ethiopia
Company: Plan International
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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
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.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
Dimensions of Role:
- This position is generally based at the Country Office of Plan International Ethiopia.
- The post holder will report to the head of Disaster Preparedness and response Management and will be technically responsible for all the emergency response WASH program budget based on the annual and/or multiyear resilience building plan.
- The post holder will manage all emergency WASH related projects and supervises field based emergency WASH coordinators based at the program area and/or specific project field level. She/he will work to ensure smooth working environment between the country office emergency response team and the field respective staff.
- The post holder is responsible to manage program design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of all emergency WASH projects programs. The post holder will be part of the national and regional or disaster specific WASH need assessment and proposal design.
- The post holder support the country program emergency response and recovery in formulating specific and overall WASH emergency response interventions at country-office level by planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
- She/he ensures smooth teamwork within and across the other response sectors and sustainable development while enhancing integration among others.
Typical Responsibilities – Key end Results of the Position:
Project design, implementation and reporting
- Ensure quality emergency WASH project/program delivery at all levels of the project cycle management in line with the global DRM policy and response sector and humanitarian standards.
- Develop and oversee comprehensive and assessment based emergency WASH projects/programs which could be child, young girls and women centered in collaboration with communities, government partners and Plan International Ethiopia staff at all levels.
- Provide technical support to field and country office staff on emergency WASH projects/programs in the selection of effective strategic options that address the live saving emergency response followed by possible resilience building of disaster affected child, their families and community.
- Ensure that all emergency response WASH projects/programs are technically sound and are aligned to the Plan’s, global priorities, country strategic plan, country programs objectives and principles.
- Develop necessary guidelines and technical design to facilitate the implementation of emergency WASH intervention activities under the established local level procedures, country programs, national and global standards and norms.
- Based on the approved budget and activities of emergency response, prepare annual and quarterly implementation plans and enforce the execution of the aspired plan as per the requirement.
- Approve and/or prepare the construction payment certificates for emergency WASH projects which could be certified and/or approved by other coordinators or specialist recommended by and in line with Plan’s procurement and construction guideline and procedures.
- Ensure optimum community involvement in the conceptualization, development, management, monitoring and evaluation of emergency WASH response projects.
- Beyond the emergency WASH response project management, in consultation with other team members at all levels, address the resilience building, recovery/rehabilitation, preparedness and mitigation components of the DRM needs and requirements for the disaster affected and vulnerable communities.
- Knowledge, Skills, Behaviors, and Experience Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives:
Educational Qualification and Experience
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Hydraulic/Civil /Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Health or related field with minimum 5 years of work experience in emergency WASH response.
- Master’s degree on the above-mentioned area is preferable.
- Demonstrated experience in the management of key programmatic areas relevant to WASH emergency response under the country program.
- Additional experience and commitment to, and understanding of, participatory approaches to respond for disaster affected people.
- Previous experience of managing and developing a multi-disciplinary team.
Knowledge
- Extensive knowledge on emergency WASH and the sector environment.
- Understanding of Core Humanitarian Standards which are workable by sector.
- Knowledge of human resource and coordination role from general and organization perspectives.
- Understand organisational principles, systems and have the ability to provide leadership and support to staff working at community level for disaster affected population.
- Knowledge of child-rights programming particularly Child Protection in Emergency, CPiE.
- Knowledge of participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Research systems and processes
Location: Awassa
Type of Role: WASH
Reports to: Area Program Manager
Grade: D2
Closing Date: 17 May 2022
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.