Project Officer-WASH

Job Description

Title: Project Officer-WASH

Company Name: AGRAJATTRA (An Organization for Integrated Social Development)

Vacancy: 1

Age: 25 to 45 years

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 53000 - 53592 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 2 to 4 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Training Institutes, IT Enabled Service, NGO, Development Agency, Agro based firms (incl. Agro Processing/Seed/GM), Research Organization

• Master of Development Studies (MDS)

WASH-related training from any recognized institution.

• 2 to 4 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Training Institutes, IT Enabled Service, NGO, Development Agency, Agro based firms (incl. Agro Processing/Seed/GM), Research Organization

• Age 25 to 45 years

• WASH-related experience both in Rohingya Camp and Host Community.

Duty station/Location : Rohingya Refugee Camps (3, 5), Ukiya and Cox`s Bazar Regional Office, CXB, Bangladesh.

Reports to: Program Director - AGRAJATTRA GAC/BRAC Pooled Fund Project.

Contract duration: Total project duration initially Up to 30th Nov 2024, full-time position (with possibility of contract extension)

About you : To be successful in this role we expect you to be flexible and proactive in engaging with existing and potential programming in a changing operational context.

Operational/Context Role : AGRAJATTRA is looking for an experience, competent and dedicated Project Officer - WASH for the project titled "Reduce the morbidity of water borne diseases and negative environmental impact related to using open and unimproved latrine by the disadvantaged Rohingya Refugees population through universal and equitable access to WASH services".The project wants to address the following the challenges under the project :

• Pure safe-water crisis both Rohingya Camp: To supply of pure safe water for drinking and cooking purpose through renovation/decommission of inactive Water facilities in Rohingya Camp

• Challenges of using improve/sanitary latrine by the Rohingya Community : To improve use of sanitary latrine in Rohingya Community.

• Challenges of environmental situation for liquid and solid waste management in Rohingya camps : To improve the environmental situation through systematic liquid and solid waste management. The Project is funded by Global Affairs Canada - GAC Pooled Fund and technical supported by BRAC.

About More than a million Rohingya have fled due to the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh. The refugees are in temporary settlements on hilly areas of Cox’s Bazar with inadequate water and sanitation facilities, giving rise to diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and diarrhea. They are exposed to significant public health risks due to overcrowded living conditions and poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices and waste Hazzard at the camps, especially at the Kutupalong expansion sites. They are continuing to live in very fragile conditions. The Rohingya refugee camps are already overcrowded. There are problems with the quality and highly uneven distribution of water, with many people walking long distances through densely inhabited camps to the water sources.Improper sanitation and waste management is the number one cause for ill health, disease, and death throughout the world, particularly under extremely dense living conditions in the Rohingya refugee camps. Garbage littering and open defecation are widely practiced. Congested drainage systems contribute to flooding, bringing waste and contaminants into people’s homes. Improvements can be made by involving camp inhabitants in decision-making processes and giving them greater ownership in everyday infrastructure maintenance.

Job Responsibilities

• Support project manager in achieving projects objectives.

• Supervise day to day field level project implementation activities.

• Supervise field level data collection on demand basis.

• Supervise and conduct community level training, workshop on participatory ecosystem management and other relevant activities.

• Communicate to stakeholders at the local level from a justice and equity approach in conducting awareness-raising actions.

• Support in developing and sustaining partnerships with different stakeholders including youth, activists, scientists, civil society organizations, business sectors and the government of Bangladesh, especially at the grassroots.

• Support in progress reporting for projects using information from various sources.

• Supporting knowledge development on blue economy and inclusiveness development.

• Ensure the safety of team members (in respect to Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse - PSEA) from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the programme`s goals on safeguarding implementation.

• Ensuring safe and inclusive project management.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Assist the Project Manager, partners and relevant staff in monitoring, documentation and developing the donor reports, project completion, monthly reports to CiC etc.

• Perform any other required changes of activities assigned by project or management.