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ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, and technology– creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries, all 50 U.S. states, and all U.S. territories. FHI 360’s Crisis Response team has been responding to the humanitarian emergency in Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Somali Regions through an integrated Health, Nutrition, WASH, and Protection project to meet the critical needs of the conflict-affected population. FHI 360 Crisis Response team has also expanded its humanitarian response to the Oromia Region, with operations based in Negele Borena, to support affected communities.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The WASH Engineer will work in Tigray region, with the possibility of traveling to other locations as needed. Working to develop and enhance the technical engineering implementation parts of the FHI 360 ISHI-E III program's water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities at the sites will be the primary tasks. The incumbent will manage areas of water and sanitation technology such as designing, quantifying, and specifying boreholes, preparing, and managing contractual documents, managing geophysical studies, installing, and repairing submersible and hand pumps, training on submersible and hand pump repair and maintenance, designing and constructing water distribution systems, pump testing, water quality testing, hand dug well construction, and/or latrine construction. The WASH Engineer is responsible for supporting the scale-up of public health engineering components of WASH operations in FHI 360 implementation zones in Tigray Mekelle, reporting to the WASH Team Leader. The WASH Engineer will assist the WASH Team Leader and Senior WASH Officer in providing technical guidance to contractors, skilled and unskilled daily laborers, IDPs, and partners at the field level under his duty areas of assignment, as well as ensuring that both public health engineering and promotion of program implementation components adhere to appropriate international standards and Ministry of Health guidelines. The incumbent will be based on Mekelle and the focal point for Public Health Engineering and Health Facility WASH activities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

• Support the WASH team leader in facilitating the process of establishing smooth and fulfilling work relationships with host government offices and implementing arms.
• Assess the community's demand for WASH/DESIGN initiatives (water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities), including public areas and health facilities.
• Ensure that the project meets the demands of the recipients and offers quality assurance for water source construction and sanitation projects.
• Preparation of Design (Water CAD, Water Gems), drawings (AutoCAD), BOQ/Cost Estimates, and Tender papers for all WASH/DESIGN infrastructures.
• Ensuring technical training for community handlers in areas such as water quality testing and the construction and maintenance of quality water point infrastructure.
• Conduct training for beneficiaries and water management committees on the operation and maintenance of water supply and sanitation infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain solid connections and channels of communication with relevant local authorities and communities prior to intervention, outlining the function of FHI 360 and working with them during the project.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders on the ground to ensure that the operations are carried out smoothly, efficiently, and effectively.
• Ensure a timely startup of planned WASH construction related undertakings in the upcoming response scale up in Amhara and Afar regions.
• Assist the WASH team leader and technically support the WASH assistants in the design, implementation and oversight of all PHE and PHP undertakings of the overall WASH responses.
• Represent FHI 360 at various levels of WASH platforms including the WASH Cluster and its technical working groups.
• The WASH Officer - Engineer will oversee assisting the WASH team in providing technical guidance in the adoption of high standard construction quality works, as well as ensuring that all health, nutrition, and protection sectors, as well as WASH sector cross cutting issues, are integrated during day-to-day field level exercises.
• Under his/her duty areas of assignment, provide on-the-job and field level mentorship to hygiene volunteers, HDAs, contractors, skilled and unskilled daily laborers, IDPs, and partners. He/she will be the project's focal point for leading the research components in the Tigray region's Region.
• Lead the rapid and detail assessment Ensure high quality activity implementation timeline, detail procurement as well as spending plans prepared in the first month of the project period with the good engagement of the WASH staff in Mekelle office.
• Whenever required, the position holder will take the leadership in conducting rapid as well as detailed assessments and prepare intervention activities, beneficiaries as well as sectors integration matrixes and follow their implementations with the field team on regular basis.
• Responsible to lead the WASH intervention at all levels and ensure the programmatic integration of the WASH sector with the health, nutrition, and protections sectors of the FHI360 and other similar actors in the intervention areas.
• Oversight of all WASH related construction undertakings in health facilities and one stope centers in different project areas in Amhara.
• Represent FHI 360 at various levels of coordination platforms including the regional WASH Cluster and its technical working groups. CCCM, IDP Camp, review meetings and engagement with the partners whenever called up on.
• Identify infrastructural and IPC problems within health facility settings and come up with technical and financial propositions of how they can be fixed.
• Draft design bills of quantities, specifications, and cost estimates for proposed public health promotion and Environmental health interventions including for hazardous waste management in health facilities.
• Prepare TORs, MEMOs, Attendance, and payment documents for all activities under the PHP component of the project in the first two months of the project and ensure the PR and payments are done timely.
• The WASH officer is responsible for inspecting before delivery of all WASH supplies under the project and give quality approvals to supplies met the anticipated quality and is responsible to reject poor quality supplies in consultation with the procurement team.
• Work closely with other FHI 360 units - including health and nutrition, logistics and finance, HR, and administration - to ensure programmatic integration, effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance.
• Regular produce and share timely progress updates to the regional WASH cluster and other relevant parts in consultation with his supervisor.
• Lead the rapid and detail assessment Ensure high quality activity implementation timeline, detail procurement as well as spending plans prepared in the first month of the project period with the good engagement of the WASH staff in Mekelle offices.
• Identify WASH needs within target communities, including identification of water systems, analyzing dysfunctionalities, and coming up with technical and financial propositions of how the systems can be restored.
• Participate and lead technical assessments as required - including KAP surveys and detailed damage status assessments. Prepare relevant reports and ensure good documentation is in place, including pictorial reports that will inform FHI 360’s humanitarian efforts.
• Supervise and produce progress reports on implementation of planned basic rehabilitations and infrastructural improvements at IDPs, community and inside health facilities.
• Support and guide field assistants, contractors, skilled and unskilled laborers, and volunteers in closely and daily following up WASH related interventions implementation to meet the anticipated quality standards.
• Participate and lead technical assessments as required - including KAP surveys and detailed damage status assessments. Prepare relevant reports and ensure good documentation is in place, including pictorial reports that will inform FHI 360’s humanitarian efforts.
• Support the WASH team leader to ensure effective follow up while tracking the procurement and spending's against the plan to ensure they are implemented within the budget frame and in compliance with FHI 360 and donor requirements.
• Support and guide field assistants, contractors, skilled and unskilled laborers, and volunteers as well as HDAs in closely and daily following up WASH related interventions implementation to meet the anticipated quality standards.

  MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING

  • Ensure that WASH infrastructure building and reconstruction is carried out in accordance with the BOQs, drawings, and quality standards defined by FHI 360 via quality checklists.
  • Weekly data reporting to track the standard project and strategy KPIs (number of beneficiaries, number, and kind of completed activities).
  • Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to FHI 360 and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.
  • Follow all protocols and regulations according to guidance provided by the direct supervisor.

    REPORTING AND DOCUMENTATION

    • Preparation of weekly work plan for WASH team and sharing with line manager.
    • Ensure that WASH infrastructure construction and rehabilitation works are carried out according to BOQs, drawings, quality standards established by FHI 360 through quality checklists.
    • Preparation of weekly, monthly, and field visit reports and sharing with line manager on timely manner.
    • Ensure proper Record keeping for all WASH infrastructure activities in hard and soft form.

      INTEGRATION, COORDINATION, AND TRANSVERSAL ASPECTS

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      ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

      • Ensure that construction works is integrated with hygiene promotion and community participation component, to ensure sustainability of the infrastructure built.
      • Coordinate WASH construction activities with other sectors of FHI 360, Health Nutrition & protection, operation, and Finance to integrate activities in the same geographical area and for the same beneficiaries.
      • Coordinate WASH construction activities with other local actors (governmental and non-governmental).
      • Ensure that construction works is integrated with hygiene promotion and community participation component, to ensure sustainability of the infrastructure built.
      • Regularly meet the community and their leaders whenever in the field to explain what WASH team is doing their community.
      • Actively participate in weekly management and team meetings.
      • Ensure program integration between WASH Teams and other sectors throughout the planning, design, and implementation stages to create synergy effects.

        DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

        • 2+ years of relevant experience in humanitarian response projects - preferably with INGOs, or community development areas.
        • MSc degree /First degree in water resource, civil, water supply and sanitation engineering and related fields.
        • Hands on experience designing, implementing, and managing humanitarian WASH programs.
        • Experience in successfully implementing community and IDP -based WASH responses in crises response, in the region is an asset.
        • Knowledge of the recently established different global WASH strategies, related online tools, and applications as well as resilient WASH has added value.
        • Experience in preparing, evaluating construction bids, managing payment claims, supervising sites.
        • Good understanding of the strategies and practices in Ethiopia regarding the WASH sector.
        • Experience conducting rapid needs assessments; baseline assessments, etc. a plus.
        • Sound understanding of the socio-economic and political situation in the working region.
        • Experience representing employer at relevant platforms and liaising with key stakeholders.
        • Willing to travel frequently and for extended period to FHI 360 operational locations in Amhara region whenever required.
        • Good understanding of the UN Cluster System; international and national minimum standards
        • Fluent in in English and strong knowledge of local language as well as additional languages in Ethiopia is a plus.

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