Public Health Engineering Officer

Job Description

Title: Public Health Engineering Officer

Company Name: Oxfam

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ A suitable qualification in the areas of WASH related engineering (like Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Public Health).

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities
∎ Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women's rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work
∎ Commitment to Oxfam's safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 2 years experience in WASH programming including public health engineering in emergencies.
∎ Excellent experience in developing design, drawing, BoQs, water quality testing & monitoring of engineering activities.
∎ Excellent experience in planning, implementing, mobilising resources, coordinating etc for the smooth implementation of project activities.
∎ Excellent interpersonal skills, to deal with a wide range of contacts, including negotiating and assertiveness skills
∎ Good understanding and use of humanitarian international codes of conduct and minimum standards, especially the Red Cross Code and SPHERE standards.
∎ Experience in working with partner organizations, and in particular on participatory approach and strengthening capacity around project cycle management.
∎ Strong team working skills and ability to motivate and facilitate the work to others.
∎ Ability to work independently with different teams and under matrix management
∎ Experience in promoting water rights and water governance perspectives at local contexts
∎ Demonstrated experience of integrating gender, Person with Disability, marginalized and diversity issues in public health programme activities.
∎ Demonstrated experience in establishing and implementing M&E systems for public health engineering.
∎ Training/Counterpart development skill
∎ Good written and spoken english
∎ Contract/contractor management, tendering, estimation- experience
∎ Market based WASH approaches and community engagements
∎ Clear understanding on gender and diversity issues.
∎ Strong negotiation, facilitation and leadership skills.
∎ Ability to work well under pressure and in response to changing needs.
∎ Ability to travel and to work in difficult and emergency circumstances

Application Deadline: June 9, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Oxfam
∎ Business : Oxfam employs more than six thousand people in 90 countries who share a commitment to work together to end poverty and suffering. It is committed to ensure diversity and gender equality within the organization and welcomes applications from women, person with disability and under-represented groups. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their HIV/AIDS status. The organization has been working in Bangladesh since the War of Independence and has established a permanent country office in 1972. Since then it has responded to all major emergencies in the country. Oxfam's current program focuses on Economic Justice & Resilience, Gender and Women?s Leadership and Humanitarian Capacity Building and Response.

Category: NGO/Development