WASH Support Officer – Engineers (4 Positions)

Job Purpose: The purpose of the Senior Technical Assistance responsible for supervising water, sanitation and hygiene activities on daily base to be as of the design, specification, drawing, contract agreement, standard and protocol of WASH infrastructure at community and health facility. The senior technical assistance 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 zonal level.

Main duties & Responsibilities:

Duties and 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, community level and provide recommendation to address existing WASH gaps at those health facilities and kebeles.
• Provide detailed technical reports to the WASH Engineer/Team leader following such assessments.
• In liaison with the WASH Engineer 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
• 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 mainstreamed into WASH programmes.
• Provide regular progress reports to Woreda Team leader/WASH Engineer
• 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.

Coordination and networking

• To liaise with Government and other relevant stakeholders both at Woreda and Zonal level as requested by the line manager.
• Establish good working relationship with Concern staff, government bodies, other WASH partners etc
• Participate in WASH cluster meeting as required.

Planning, Reporting and Accountability

• Submit weekly and monthly progress update on the WASH activities to the WASH Engineer
• Contribute to the preparation of internal and external reports by supporting the WASH Engineer in gathering relevant information from the field.
• Ensure that program participants and stakeholders have clear information about the program activities as appropriate and relevant to them.
• Give technical support to the field staff on mainstreaming gender, protection, accountability and inequality in the implementation of WASH and Infrastructure activities.
Additional Duties
• Perform other duties assigned by the line manager for the accomplishment of program objectives.

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.

Gender Equality

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

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.
• Practice 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.

Person specification: 

• BSc. in Hydraulics, Sanitary or Water Resource Engineering from recognized university.
  • At least Two (2) 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

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

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18 weeks (unpaid) parental leave