Officer - Inclusive Design, WASH (Re advertisement)

Job Description

Title: Officer - Inclusive Design, WASH (Re advertisement)

Company Name: International Development Enterprises (iDE)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Civil Engineering background (Preferably from BUET and other reputed institutions)

Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Inclusive Technology review and improvement support:
∎ Gather a thorough understanding of existing improved WASH technologies and services promoted within the Project. Support technical leads to evaluate household's desirability, technical feasibility and commercial viability of the design, and improving adoption of the improved WASH products and services.
∎ Explore constraints, challenges and scope for integrating inclusion considerations for Gender, disabled and minority communities utilizing latrines residing in rural and hard to reach communities
∎ Explore technical challenges, bottlenecks and issues with project promoted technologies and services either on design, or on adoption side, which will be proposed for mitigation to Project Leadership and Technical Leads.
∎ Support the design, prototyping, testing and finalizing new WASH technologies in line with recognized design principles (for example-HCD).
∎ Support national, regional and local companies for rapid prototyping, testing and finalizing new WASH technologies.
∎ Technical Documentation of technology:
∎ Review existing, available documentation and work on improving documentation for usage of experts, technical leads and relevant field resources.
∎ Develop a framework for testing new sanitation technologies with support from relevant Institutional resources which would be used by Project staff.
∎ Technical Orientation of Project staff:
∎ With guidance from relevant Technical lead, extend support for training Field staff to build a basic understanding of WASH technologies and services which would be leveraged during training and regular check in with Project staff.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 2-3 years of experience in the practical field of Engineering.
∎ Prior experience in WASH Sector will be an added advantage in the role.
∎ Experience and knowledge in WASH sector of Bangladesh and associated WASH technologies.
∎ Training or exposure in design principles and HCD will be an added advantage.
∎ Aesthetic sense in designs in terms of visuals as well as effectiveness.
∎ In addition to the above, the following are the technical orientation and experiences required for the incumbent of the role to be suited to the requirements of the role:
∎ Principles of Engineering, design.
∎ Basic understanding of WASH and Sanitation technologies.
∎ Skilled in inspecting structural design and recommending means for improvement.
∎ Ability to document prescribed approach, guidelines leveraging support from technical team

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 7 Nov 2021

Company Information:
∎ 1 Nov 2021
∎ International Development Enterprises (iDE)

Category: NGO/Development