Caution: This is an Afghan national position only.

Job Overview:

The purpose of WASH Officer position is to lead WASH project in Faryab province, and be responsible for identifying WASH needs, leading and providing support to WASH team, ensure transparency and eligibility in beneficiary selection and ensure all WASH technical works quality and progress. WASH officer will be responsible for proper coordination with all stakeholders. He/she also has to ensure all integrated projects has been properly coordinated and implemented with CCs.

For more details about this position please click here: Job Description and NRC Grade Structure

Generic responsibilities:

• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
• Provide regular progress reports to WASH coordinator.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries are most in need of protection.
• Share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in activities of WASH project.
• Ensure capacity building of technical assistants and transfer key skills.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Ensure compliance with WASH strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist

Specific responsibilities:

• Have full understanding of all programs’ goals, objectives, implementation plan and expected result / output.
• Ensure all assessments, implementations and monitoring has been done in proper way.
• Manage all the phases of the WASH activities.
• Ensure appropriateness of all WASH technical document.
• Ensure technical aspects and high quality of projects.
• Leading WASH team in Faryab province.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Participate in meetings and trainings when scheduled.
• Supervise the delivery, distributions, and implementation of (WASH) interventions in field.
• Provision of weekly and monthly plan for WASH team.
• Coordinate closely his or her activities with WASH Coordinator
• Assist her/his direct supervisor/Coordinator on planning, organizing, facilitating and monitoring of projects.
• Be willing to travel in districts and other provinces.
• Ensure all integrated projects has been properly coordinated and implemented with CCs.
• Any others tasks assigned by supervisors/ WASH Coordinator

Monitoring:

• Monitor of WASH project all activities.

Distributions:

• Support to distribution of hygiene kit, water drum and other kits of WASH and Shelter projects.

Generic professional competencies:

• Ability to engage and motivate staff in a challenging programme area.
• Excellent familiarity with cultural sensitivities, ethnic groups and security situation of Northern provinces especially Faryab province.
• Planning and delivering results.
• Fluency in English and local language Dari/Uzbeki/Pashto

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering or prior experience with NRC in WASH section.
• At least 3 years of previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area preferably with UN or INGOs
• Excellent verbal communication, negotiation and problems solving skill.
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel, Power Point and AutoCAD).

Behavioral competencies:

• Communicating with impact and respect
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Flexibility, creativity and good sense of humor
• Fair treatment, impartial & humanity – based thinker

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary Based on Afghanistan NRC Salary Scale
• NRC has Medical Coverage for staff plus 4 dependents
• Eid Bonus once per year
• Leave and holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law
• Top up Credit on monthly bases