WASH Manager

Job Description

Title: WASH Manager

Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Qualified B.Sc in Civil Engineering or Public Health Specialist with experience in designing health and WASH infrastructure in emergencies. OR,
∎ Master degree in Social Sciences with extensive working experience in WASH programming

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Reporting to: Senior Program Coordinator (Host Community)
∎ Department: Host Community Program

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Primary Responsibilities:
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∎ Develop a program plan, ensure its smooth implementation, and manage the team's performance of project tasks and activities.
∎ Support Project teams in high-quality information gathering and analysis processes at community and office level measure the committed standards in different projects and drive continual improvement across the program.
∎ Design and manage evaluation processes, including developing TORs, SOPs, Guidelines, and modules advising The WASH sector on evidence-based decisions.
∎ Lead in the development and implementation of processes, methodologies, and tools to ensure quality implementation of WASH interventions.
∎ Ensure appropriate design, construction and implementation of WASH hardware according to technical standards, as well as proper maintenance and use of WASH equipment.
∎ Manage the WASH team human resources and provide technical support, training and capacity building.
∎ Provide capacity building to hygienists and waste attendants including partner staff.
∎ Monitoring of sub-construction works.
∎ Provide technical leadership to the implementing partners.
∎ Program Development:
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∎ Provide technical inputs to inclusive program and project development processes, particularly on the logic of intervention (Theory of Change, logical frameworks, and MEAL plans).
∎ Lead the development of WASH MEAL plans, results frameworks, and ensure the team uses the tools.
∎ Develop and ensure the use of appropriate techniques and materials for hygiene promotion and training.
∎ Manage the WASH team human resources and provide technical support, training and capacity building.
∎ Staff Supervision & Development:
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∎ Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
∎ Provide support to subordinates for work plans, work, and staff training/development activities.
∎ Monitoring and Reporting:
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∎ Monitoring of sub-construction works.
∎ Design and manage evaluation processes, including developing TORs, SOPs, Guidelines, and modules advising The WASH sector on evidence-based decisions.
∎ Support the project team and partners in extracting lessons learned and good practices and documenting case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes.
∎ Track the progress of activities, ensure the collecting of program indicators and provide on-time internal status reports and external donor reports.
∎ Ensure that all data and information is updated, well organized and easily accessible; and that lessons learnt and best practice are capitalized.
∎ Government Relation and Community Engagement:
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∎ Maintain liaison with Govt. line departments.
∎ Lead and ensure information for Cluster coordination working group in Cox's Bazar.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
∎ Other:
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∎ Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to Senior Program Coordinator-Host Community/Senior Safety and Security Coordinator and IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
∎ Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Additional Requirements:
∎ The ideal candidate will have a WASH background and experience in Implementing water and sanitation for rural and urban context.
∎ At least 5 years of experience in WASH sector.
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): WASH, Monitoring and Reporting, Program Design, Project Management, Partner Management.
∎ Excellent understanding of EH issues in emergency situations and knowledge of humanitarian standards (SPHERE). Good knowledge in emergency WASH program standards, designs, approaches and, different WASH project models.
∎ Strong leadership, management, planning, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
∎ Ability to live and work in stressful environment;
∎ Excellent initiator and able to manage multiple tasks.
∎ Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making.
∎ Competent in Microsoft Office, Word and Excel and engineering design software (AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Epanet etc.).
∎ Knowledge and/or experience in conflict management, protection, or other related field.
∎ Excellent professional approach and strong team building skills.

Salary:
∎ Competitive Base Pay

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Fringe Benefits (Medical Benefits + Bonus+ Gratuity + Leaves Entitlements + Housing Allowance) As per IRC National Pay Scale in Bangladesh

Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2020

Company Information:
∎ 22 Jul 2020
∎ International Rescue Committee (IRC)
∎ Business : The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, protection and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Founded in 1933. David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.

Category: NGO/Development