WASH Expert; RIVER-CEMRCB Project; Disaster Risk Management

Job Description

Title: WASH Expert; RIVER-CEMRCB Project; Disaster Risk Management

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Healthcare/Lifestyle product, Healthcare Startup

• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering/ Public Health Engineering/ Environmental Engineering or Studies from any recognised decipline.

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Healthcare/Lifestyle product, Healthcare Startup

• Minimum 08 years of work experience in relevant field.

Location: Dhaka Project Office

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

About the Progrmme:

BRAC started its journey with the humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged population following Bangladesh`s war of independence in 1971, thus its humanitarian identity is at the core of its ethos and foundations. Since then, BRAC has stood by the most vulnerable population with emergency response, recovery, and rehabilitation support after all major disasters in Bangladesh. Emerging from the need to address disaster management efforts more efficiently, effectively, and timely, BRAC created a dedicated programme titled "Disaster Environment and Climate Change" in 2008, which was restructured and retitled as Disaster Risk Management Program (DRMP) with an aim to strengthen community resilience through disaster risk reduction and preparedness along with emergency response and recovery actions. DRMP works to strengthen resilience across the most vulnerable communities and provides holistic humanitarian support to the people affected by disasters and crises in Bangladesh.

Project Brief:

The World Bank-funded and LGED-implemented Resilient Infrastructure for Adaptation and Vulnerability Reduction (RIVER) project aims to reduce community vulnerability to riverine and flash floods, strengthen disaster preparedness and response capacity, and enable rapid responses to emergencies. It covers flood-prone districts across the Teesta--Brahmaputra-Jamuna, Padma, and Surma-Meghna basins.

The project has four components: (i) resilient flood shelters and community infrastructure; (ii) disaster preparedness, response capacity, and technical assistance; (iii) project management, design, supervision, monitoring, and evaluation; and (iv) contingency emergency response.

The Community Engagement, Mobilisation and Resilience Capacity Building (CEMRCB) component focuses on com-munity engagement, consultation, mobilisation, and capacity development, with particular emphasis on long-term flood resilience. It aims to strengthen communities` understanding of flood risks, preparedness measures, and self-protection practices to support faster responses and build lasting resilience.

Job purpose

The overall purpose of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Expert position is to enhance community resilience for potential disasters by developing WASH strategy that address the WASH needs of the community in the shelters that promote sustainable and equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene services.

Job Category: Project staff for specific project

Key responsibilities

• Conduct assessments to identify the WASH needs of the community, including water supply, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices, during the disaster period and in the post-disaster scenario.

• Facilitate community engagement by working with community members to identify the WASH needs and priorities, and by ensuring that their voices are heard in the activity planning and decision-making processes.

• Develop WASH strategies that address the WASH needs of the community in the shelters, and that promote sustainable and equitable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services.

• Develop a strategy/ and prepare materials on necessary behavioral change communication (BCC) including improve-ment of nutrition, WASH practices (personal hygiene, hand washing with soap, menstrual hygiene etc.), use of safe water, and elimination of open defecation.

• Support the community to understand the basics of shelter management and develop a collective plan for evacuee and shelter management with designated roles and responsibilities.

• Monitor and evaluate the WASH impacts of community engagement, mobilization, resilience, and capacity building activities. This may involve collecting and analyzing data to measure WASH outcomes and impacts, and ro3king recommendations for improvement.

• Provide technical assistance and support io the team members and stakeholders to help them implement WASH strategies and effectively engage with community members.

Safeguarding responsibilities

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme`s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

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

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do SO.

• Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance and others as per policy.