WASH Technical Assistant

The WASH Technical Assistant supports the implementation of WASH activities including needs assessments, technical surveys, community mobilization, and supervision of water and sanitation infrastructure construction. The role involves coordination with community leaders, partners, and other sectors to ensure effective WASH interventions in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Assist with the implementation of the support function 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 improvement of the support function.
• Help plan and carry out needs assessments, baseline studies and periodic studies, and feedback findings to the stakeholders.
• Liaise with community leaders and other sectors and agencies working locally in order to coordinate within the WASH sector and between sectors such as Shelter, Education and Food Security.
• Collect primary information for reports preparation, receive information from community and relay to NRC Office and coordinate with the M&E team.
• Play a key and fundamental role in community mobilization and convening community meetings.
• Coordinate with the WASH cluster partner staff, NGOs/INGOs/UN agencies and Govt Line agencies to avoid any duplication of services.
• Conduct Needs assessments, case investigations and sanitary survey in areas of cooperation to define transmission context.
• Conduct technical surveys for WASH infrastructure and provide preliminary information for cost estimates based on location prices and market situation.
• Implement WASH and surveillance activities.
• Collect data from the community workers/volunteers and prepare regular reports on WASH and Cholera activities and monitor progress.
• Supervise construction and rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities and ensure all construction is done with quality as per guiding documents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Water, hydraulics, civil engineering.
• At least 2 years of technical experience in WASH and construction fields.
• Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Some knowledge of English and Afari Language.
• Proven ability to use MS Office software (especially Word and Excel) and competent in email communication with MS Outlook or Other related software.
• Proven ability to use engineering software such as AutoCAD, and other related software.
• Strong context assessment skills and ability to communicate to the office on time.
• Able to communicate, collaborate and share tasks with other NRC (Education, Protection/ICLA, Cash & Market and M&E) and other NGO field staff.
• Good understanding of common hygiene promotion and sanitation approaches and Sphere standards.

Skills

• Water Engineering
• Hydraulics Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• WASH Technical Experience
• Construction Management
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Context Assessment
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Word
• Excel
• Email Communication
• Microsoft Outlook
• AutoCAD
• Engineering Design Software
• Hygiene Promotion
• Sanitation approaches
• SPHERE standards
• Social Mobilization
• Technical Surveys
• Water and Sanitation
• Inter-sectoral Coordination

Languages

English, Afari