Position:                                   WASH Project Officer

Reports to:                                Project Manager _ Leer & Mayom

Supervision of:                          Community Hygiene Promoters, School Hygiene Clubs, Contractors, Casuals workers and Enumerators.  

Duty station:                             Leer / Mayom   

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity, and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

1. Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the officer position is day to day implementation of the WASH Project in the community and institutions including schools. Use actions words such as ensure, implement or assist for the position relevant responsibilities.

Generic responsibilities 

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated WASH project portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
• Contribute to organisational learning through the provision specific technical analysis, lessons learned and reports
• Ensure that projects meet target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist

Specific responsibilities 

1. Facilitate and conduct WASH need assessments in the schools, institutions and communities and collect all the needed information with accordance to the NRC requirements and guild lines.
2. Draft full detailed assessment reports based on the findings and as delegated by the line manager.
3. Propose and recommend the appropriate WASH interventions for the community based on the assessment’s findings with coordination with the other NRC CC’s team and WASH & Shelter specialist.
4. Coordinate with the logistic, Finance and Procurement teams to ensure that required WASH supplies and support services are ready timely as requested.
5. Work and extend full support to other CCs especially for Education and LFS teams on WASH related issues and integration.
6. Prepare WASH in community and WASH in school detailed Work plan, Procurement plan and all other required documents before commencing the work.
7. Participate and attend state / National level WASH cluster meetings and update the NRC WASH progress, challenges and any issues encountered on the ground.
8. Coordinate with Local authorities and WASH partners on the ground and update NRC WASH interventions, progress, and challenges to avoid duplications and ensure effective usage of resources.
9. Engage with local authorities, community and School management for all phases of  WASH interventions from assessments, mobilization, and implementation, monitoring and handing over.
10. Collect all feedback and comments from the community, share with management and ensure their feedback to be taken in to consideration.
11. Having all the project documents well prepared in accordance to NRC requirements and as delegated by the line manager and to ensure proper archiving.
12. Support and draw WASH infrastructure technical designs using AutoCAD / Progcad software.
13. Collect beneficiaries data using beneficiaries tracking sheet and update   all data related to water provision (Water Point/Sources Construction, Rehabilitation and establishment)  ,  water quality testing , Provision of sanitation facilities (Construction / rehabilitation of latrines , drainage const / rehab,  trainings, etc ), hygiene promotion activities  and solid waste management activities.
14. Participate actively in budget developments, monitoring and reviews and participate actively in Project proposal drafting, and reporting.
15. Oversee all water supply interventions including BH drilling, BH construction, BH rehabilitation, establishment of water supply schemes, rainwater harvesting, water treatment and water quality checking including checking on the water quality parameters of physical, chemical, and bacteriological properties.
16. Oversee effective implementation of sanitation activities including supervision and monitoring of household and school latrine construction, fabrication of slabs, molding of blocks and solid waste management activities and ensuring tasks are completed correctly and on schedule.
17. Participate in beneficiary identification and selection for WASH activities in accordance with the NRC’s set criteria on beneficiary selection and identification.
18. Recruit, train, and manage incentive/casual workers, supervise contractor’s work and report on daily/weekly basis.
19. Select, train and supervise Community hygiene promoters, water user’s committees, solid waste management committees, school hygiene clubs and water quality monitors and take account of gender, protection, the environment, and other important cross-cutting concerns in programme design, implementation, and reporting.
20. Carry out activities in a way that reflects the needs of specific groups and individuals e.g. elderly people, minority groups, children, and people with disabilities.
21. Prepare weekly report including community and school WASH progress, challenges and proposed action and share with Line manager and WASH and Shelter specialist.

Critical interfaces

Relevant interfaces for this position are:

• Other CCs (LFS, Protection, ICLA,  and Shelter).
• Support (Finance, Procurement, M&E, Logistic and Security).
• Other stakeholders (RRC, Local authorities, WASH cluster,  Core pipeline partners, etc.)

Scale and scope of position

1. Competencies 

1. Value driven competencies

Values are aspirational attitudes and beliefs that influence the way people conduct themselves. NRC’s values are: Dedicated, Innovated, Inclusive and Accountable.

1. Behavioral competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. Of the 12 behavioral competencies, the following are essential for this position:

• Managing resources and achieving results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change

1. Professional competencies 

Generic professional competencies: 

• Minimum first level university degree in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 2 -3 years of experience working in a humanitarian/recovery context and specific experience in WASH.
• Experience in implementation of WASH projects in community and institutions .
• Experience in protection mainstreaming, desirable
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Ability to initiate, develop, plan and implement an integrated programme.
• Experience in community mobilisation and conducting outreach activities.
• Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills, including the ability to explain and present technical information.
• Political and cultural awareness and experience of working where hardship areas.
• Ability to work independently in a result oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment and manage conflicting priorities.
• Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of disadvantaged populations (minority groups etc.)
• Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues.

1. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for and evaluated on the responsibilities and the competencies, based on NRC’s Performance Management System. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
• The Competency Framework