Duration and type of contract: Six Months

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.

Role and responsibilities

Main purpose of the position is to ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the WASH activities in IDPs and Host community in Somali region, Ethiopia. The WASH Officer-PHP will assist the WASH Coordinator in providing technical support in the development of NRC’s WASH programming for water infrastructures, construction and hygiene promotion activities. He/she will also work closely with the other Project Officers and assistants in the field to ensure timely delivery of quality WASH programme, and will assist the WASH Coordinator in overall planning and design of (future) projects.

Generic responsibilities (max 10)

These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall be short and essential. Details belong in the Work and Development plan.

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated 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.
• Collate data from the WASH Assistants and prepare regular reports on activities and WASH conditions for monitoring.
• Assess and advise on capacity building needs within the team to ensure effective developments of the quality standards for the Sanitation activities.
• Promote safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services
• Facilitate appropriate community involvement in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.
• Supervise Hygiene Promotion activities in line with relevant standards, codes of conduct, and humanitarian principles.

Specific responsibilities

These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.

• Supervise Hygiene Promotion activities in line with relevant standards, codes of conduct, and humanitarian principles.
• Use participatory approaches as a far as possible throughout the programme cycle, in training, and in the use of tool kits and other materials.
• Supervise WASH activities and resources so that they are implemented and handed over or ended in a way that promotes local capacities and sustainable operations.
• Recruit, train, and manage subordinate/environmental health agents’ staff including performance appraisal.
• Organize day-to-day logistics, administration, and personnel activities together with the other sectors.
• Carry out informal and formal training sessions (according to identified needs) and evaluate the impacts of these trainings.
• To assist and participate in community mobilization.
• Enable effective dialogue with the affected community to allow the agency to be held to account for the quality of the WASH program.
• Responsible over all school WASH activities including training and flow ups.
• Identification and provision of water treatment chemicals and give them orientation on how to use it
• Support the WASH PC in ensuring implementation of the complaints mechanism and ensure feedback is timely to the beneficiaries.
• Liaise with community leaders and other sectors and agencies working locally in order to coordinate within the WASH sector and between sectors such as Health and Shelter.
• Preparation of reports, guidelines and other strategic documentation.
• Help identify needs for non-food items relevant to hygiene, participate in the choice of items, targeting strategy, promotion of effective use, and post-distribution monitoring.

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

• WASH Team in Jigjiga Field office.
• HR, Admin, finance, M&E and logistic
• Project planning: WASH CC Coordinator, WASH Officers
• Area operations: Logistics and Finance
• Staff capacity building: CCC & CC Specialists, HR Officer
• Implementation: WASH, M&E team, local authority, community and partners

Scale and scope of position

Staff: WaSH Assistant and Casuals/CHPs(Community hygiene promoters)

Stakeholders: Represent NRC the WASH Cluster meeting and other Technical Working Groups as per the need arise.

Budgets: Consulted with FS budget development but not the budget holder

Information: N/A

Legal or compliance: Assistant is responsible of ensuring NRC FS work is compliant with the highest standards (ISO)

Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The Work and Development Plan
• The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
• The End-term Performance Review Template
• The NRC Competency Framework