WASH Officer Full Time

• THEME/PROGRAMME: Scaling Up Anticipatory Actions for Drought Hazard Management in Legehida and Sewan woredas of Oromia Region, Ethiopia
• LOCATION: Bale Field Office base at Sawena.
• GRADE: 4A.
• POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding: 

Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

JOB SUMMARY

The WASH Officer’s main tasks will be providing professional technical, operational and administrative assistance thought-out the WASH programming process, through the application of theoretical and practical skills in the assessment, analysis, the designing, implementation and coordination of emergency WASH interventions, and the training of local staff and stakeholders in WASH related topics.

Reports to:   WASH Coordinator.

Dimensions: Save the Children works in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 2500 staff and current expenditure of approximately $100+ million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post:  None.

• In line with SCI’s dual mandate, these key areas of accountability apply to Save the Children in Ethiopia’s work in emergencies (acute and chronic) and in development settings.

Key Responsibilities:

Under the general guidance of WASH Coordinator, the officer will undertake the following duties.

• Conduct water, sanitation and hygiene need of assessment and analysis independently/ collaboration with partners and local government sectors.
• Undertake field visits and surveys, collect and share reports with partners/stakeholders. Report critical issues, bottlenecks and potential problems to supervisor, for timely action.
• Conduct design of the project water supply schemes, hygiene and sanitation facilities to the standard.
• Involve in the project contract administration of WASH facilities that will be implemented and/or sub contracted for private contractors.
• Supervise and be responsible for all the technical aspect for project implementation, make sure that contractors complete project work in a timely, efficient and accurate manner with respect to standard engineering.
• Ensure community involvement at all phases of the project and the development of community ownership of the project.
• Guarantee the standards of construction as well as the safety practices at the project site.
• Provide feedback to the monitoring and evaluation system in order to assess the effectiveness and the impact of the projects and propose recommendations for improvement.
• Facilitate and maintain a good professional relationship between SCI, communities, government sectors and partners.
•  Provide regular written and verbal reports to the WASH coordinator on the on progress activities.
• Develop and maintain weekly, monthly plans and written comprehensive records of engineering work undertaken in the project including site visits and reporting of work progress.
• Ensure that cross cutting issues such as protection, gender and environment protection are addresses and mainstreamed in the project.

Coordination:

• Build and sustain close working partnerships with government sectors and partners at woreda/Zonal level through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve WASH output results.
• Participate in cluster, inter-agency meetings/events on WASH programming to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues representing SCI when assigned

Reporting:

• Provide regular updates (biweekly and monthly) to supervisor and team on progress, priorities and constraints – verbally and in writing.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Ensure regular monitoring of program activities to determine the success of interventions and recommend changes in program design to the WASH coordinator.
• Participating in baseline and evaluation of Knowledge, Practices and Coverage (KPC) surveys to determine how far sector indicators have been achieved.
• Implement and improve existing water and sanitation monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure their appropriateness and completeness.