Job Description

Position: Project Assistant (WASH Engineer)
Locations:  Dhamar
Technical Supervisor: Wash Officer 
Vacancy Reference Number: PAWE – Dhamar/24                                                           

JOB PURPOSE:

Under the supervision of WASH Officer, WASH assistant will be responsible for the design, implementation, follow-up and evaluation of hygiene promotion activities of Islamic Relief Yemen in the targeted governorate. In additional, provide necessary support to WASH Officer to implement all activities of WASH projects. The post is specifically oriented towards the WASH emergency response in the context of the crisis in the targeted governorate, and special attention will be made on the integration of the WASH sector in other core sectors of Islamic Relief such as nutrition, food security and livelihood.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Needs Assessments

• Design, plan and implement of hygiene needs assessments, including personal interviews at household level, facilitation of focus group discussions, site visits and meetings with key members of community.
• Provide necessary support to WASH Officer to design, plan and implement technical WASH assessments and studies such as household level questionnaires, focus group discussions, site visits and meetings with key members of community.

Program Design and Implementation

• Design, plan, implement and follow-up of hygiene promotion activities such as:
• Training of trainers on hygiene promotion (for community volunteers, WASH committee members, health workers).
• Provide technical support on hygiene promotion to the community volunteers, WASH committee members and health workers; and developing a culture sensitive IEC material for Hygiene Promotion activities.
• Liaise and coordinate hygiene activities with community health workers and related local authorities.
• Provide necessary support to WASH Officer through design, plan, Liaise, archive, implement and follow-up the detailed implementation work plan for all activities of WASH projects to achieve the projects objective on time.
• Ensure community mobilization in all field related to water, hygiene and sanitation
• Draft weekly Hygiene/cholera awareness sessions report
• Plan, organize, supervise and evaluate the distribution of all hygiene supplies such as hygiene kits, cleaning kits and Jerry Canes for health facilities, and families.
• Work with the WASH team to develop and evaluate methodologies for promoting sanitation, such as CLTS (community-led total sanitation), or latrines construction.
• Consider budget planning and logistics for hygiene promotion activities: making and follow-up of internal purchase order, quality control of material delivered by suppliers, planning team movements by vehicle.
• Undertake any other duties as may be assigned by the WASH Officer/Head of Office.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• With the WASH team implementation of initial and final KAP surveys (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice)
• With the WASH team implementation of PDM survey (Post Distribution Monitoring) for kit distributed
• Collection, consolidation and reporting of weekly hygiene and health related data, necessary for the consolidation of standard project and strategic indicators (number of beneficiaries, number and type of activity performed, results of water analysis performed)

Reporting

• Weekly (or each time when necessary) written and oral report to WASH Officer/Head of Office.
• Participate actively in terms of collecting required data needed for reports.

Integration, Coordination of Cross-cutting Aspects

• Coordinate WASH hygiene activities with other sectors of Islamic Relief, in order to integrate activities in the same geographical area and for the same beneficiaries
• Coordinate local level hygiene activities with Public Health Department at district level.
• Ensure the integration of gender, child protection, HIV, people living with disability, environment and other crosscutting issues to the design, implementation and development of Hygiene promotion activities, and ensure that activities take into account the needs of specific groups and individuals, especially children, the elderly and disabled.                 

    
Additional job responsibilities

• The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the Post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING 

Required:

• University degree in civil engineering, environment engineering or architecture engineering.

Desirable

• Relevant trainings in Water, Sanitation and hygiene.

B) EXPERIENCE  

Required:

Professional Qualifications: 

• Professional experience of 2 years minimum, among which 1 years in a field related to public health, communication and behavior change.
• Relevant experience in Water, Sanitation and hygiene.

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Desirable:

• Previous experience working in Taiz is an advantage. 
• National level representation with key stakeholders and co-ordination with another NGOs/UN.
• Direct experience in the geographical area targeted by Islamic Relief.
• Experience working with an INGO/NGO

C) COMPETENCIES (Skills, Knowledge and abilities) 

Skills:

• Organization, coordination and planning skills.
• Good report writing and communication skills
• Good at engineering applications (Autodesk applications and other relevant)
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Power point)
• Ability to listen and adopt
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and community mobilization skills
• Fluent knowledge of local language
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively to the field, under sometimes difficult and insecure circumstances.
• Ability to organize time, manage multiple tasks, and analyze information from many sources.
• Attention to detail and compliance with selection criteria and financial processes.
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines. 
• Knowledge of the areas of intervention and ability to relate with stakeholders.

Other COMPETENCIES

Core Values (Required):

• Commitment
• developing teams
• interpersonal skills, 
• contributing to team success, 
• negotiating
• accountability, courage, excellence,
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Integrity
• Collaboration

Core Competencies (Required):

• Communication
• Working with People
• Drive for Results

Functional Competencies (Required):

• Formulating strategies and concepts 
• Planning and Organizing

Safeguarding 

• Understanding of and commitment to safeguarding, child safety and protection from sexual abuse and exploitation principles.

Core Values (Required):

• Commitment.      
• Diversity and Inclusion.
• Integrity

Functional Competencies (Required):

• Planning and Organizing.

PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)

• Ability to deal with complex situation and solve issues and problems 

WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED 

• Based in Field Office, with frequent travel to the communities of intervention

CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS  

• The employee will work closely with the relevant project team in the field and office. 

Other

• Understanding of and commitment to safeguarding, child safety and protection from sexual abuse and exploitation principles.