WASH Technical Assistant (Emergency)

The WASH Technical Assistant will provide technical guidance and supervision for emergency WASH infrastructure construction and rehabilitation activities in Uror County. The role includes conducting assessments, supervising hardware implementation, facilitating community mobilization, coordinating logistics, and monitoring project progress to ensure timely access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion.

Responsibilities

• Conduct rapid and detailed WASH needs assessments in newly affected or displaced communities.
• Carry out Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) surveys and baseline data collection to inform project design.
• Identify vulnerable groups (women, children, elderly, persons with disabilities) to ensure inclusivity and safe access to WASH facilities.
• Supervise the construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of emergency sanitation facilities such as pit latrines, bathing shelters, incinerators, and drainage systems.
• Oversee water supply activities including chlorination, testing, trucking distribution, emergency water treatment, borehole or handpump repairs, and rainwater harvest systems.
• Monitor daily field works executed by contractors, community workers, or volunteers to ensure quality and compliance with Bills of Quantities.
• Ensure adherence to NRC policies, government standards, and SPHERE minimum emergency service delivery standards.
• Incorporate health and safety and child safeguarding monitoring into daily site supervision.
• Facilitate community engagement and mobilization for proper use and maintenance of WASH infrastructure.
• Train and supervise community volunteers, water management committees, and hygiene promoters on participatory methodologies.
• Lead planning and organizing WASH awareness activities in schools, health, and nutrition centers.
• Coordinate distribution of hygiene kits, water purification tablets, and other non-food items including beneficiary identification for cash.
• Maintain good relationships with community, partners, construction workers, and sub-contractors.
• Attend WASH Cluster meetings as requested.
• Coordinate material deliveries, tool tracking, and warehouse dispatch with logistics teams.
• Verify quality standards of incoming construction and relief materials.
• Liaise with local elders, community leaders, authorities, and government stakeholders.
• Provide logistical support and manage stock levels of tools, equipment, and materials in the field.
• Coordinate procurement and timely delivery of WASH materials and supplies.
• Track daily/weekly progress and compile field data into reports.
• Maintain documentation, beneficiary lists, distribution records, and filing systems.
• Contribute to lessons learnt, innovation, and research during the project.
• Implement any other assigned tasks.

Requirements

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Health, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 1 to 2 years of hands-on experience in humanitarian or recovery contexts, specifically working on emergency WASH projects.
• Proven WASH knowledge and experience in community mobilization, training, and working alongside local stakeholders.
• Strong familiarity with local contexts, emergency protocols, water quality testing, and SPHERE minimum standards.
• Good technical drafting or reading skills (ability to understand engineering designs, technical drawings, and BoQs).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work respectfully with diverse, crisis-affected populations.
• Computer literacy, including proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel); familiarity with mapping/design tools (AutoCAD, ArcGIS, GPS) is an added advantage.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure in volatile or challenging operational environments.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) alongside local/national languages of the operational area.
• Experience in integration of WASH and other sectors (such as Education, Shelter & Settlement, Cash and Markets, and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Health, Nutrition) and effectively engage communities in the implementation process.
• Mainstreaming of gender, disability inclusion and accountability to affected populations in WASH programming.
• Ability to plan and lead.
• Experience in representing NRC and participating in meetings such as Humanitarian coordinations and cluster meetings when delegated.
• Ability to work independently in a result oriented multi-tasking and multi-culture environment and managing conflicts issues.
• Knowledge on prioritization of disadvantaged groups or population (IDPs, marginalized groups, returnees, GBV victims etc.).
• Flexibility and time management.
• Knowledge of the local languages.
• Knowledge of the local context (areas of operations).
• Knowledge of good practice standards: SPHERE standards.
• Proven strategic experience in implementing community WASH projects.

Skills

• Civil Engineering
• Water Resources Engineering
• Public Health
• Environmental Health
• Emergency WASH Response
• Humanitarian WASH Principles
• Social Mobilization
• WASH Training
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Emergency Protocols
• Water Quality Sampling
• SPHERE standards
• Technical Drafting
• Engineering Design Interpretation
• Bill of Quantities preparation
• Microsoft Office Suite
• AutoCAD
• ArcGIS
• GPS
• WASH Sector Integration
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Disability Inclusion
• Accountability to Affected Populations
• Project Planning
• Meeting representation
• Conflict Management
• Prioritization of Disadvantaged Groups
• Time Management
• Local Context Knowledge
• Community WASH Implementation

Languages

English