WASH Officer
Job Description
Title: WASH Officer
Company Name: Penny Appeal
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Relevant advanced academic qualification in WASH or related field (i.e. public health, environment); engineering (civil, environmental, sanitary or water resources engineering) background is preferred.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 4 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Invitation to interviews: 15th of July 2020
∎ Interviews: 23rd of July 2020 (1st round interview) and 30th of July (2nd round interviews)
∎ Expected start date: August 2020
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensure quality of Penny Appeal's current WASH projects as per Bangladesh's different national and international WASH frameworks/standards and analyse WASH projects to figure out how projects are currently addressing those frameworks and suggest ways of improvement.
∎ Introduce innovative technologies or new technologies for the country WASH projects for addressing the need of the SDG 6, i.e. improved and safely managed water options and safely managed sanitation.
∎ Assess performance of partners' WASH interventions and support partners for necessary improvements.
∎ Provide technical support to the projects in arsenic and iron affected areas to identify arsenic & iron removal technologies combating adaptation and mitigation of such critical issue.
∎ Provide technical support to the projects in coastal belt and saline prone areas to ensure safe water availability round the year.
∎ Advise WASH partners on WASH related issues as relevant and support training and development of partners.
∎ Assess performance of different water and sanitation technologies implemented under all projects (like Rainwater Harvesting, Community managed toilets etc) and suggest for necessary contextual solution.
∎ Document learnings and best practices from various interventions/ initiatives and disseminate the same jointly with the UK team.
∎ Link Penny Appeal with different WASH network in Bangladesh.
∎ Ensure cordial relationships/networking with relevant government bodies and other stakeholders including academics and technical/specialised institutions to facilitate dialogues on strategic WASH issues or building their WASH capacities and identify strategic WASH alliances, partners and networks to invest in.
∎ Visit project areas when necessary for rolling out the standards (water quality, technical design etc) in different interventions, performance assessment of technologies for sustainability, observing roll out status of different policies and suggest onward actions.
∎ Represent Penny Appeal in different networks, alliances, workshops and meetings as assigned.
∎ Manage routine activities, such as documentation, communications, progress reporting, work planning, ToR/RFPs preparation, outreach activities, event organisation etc.
∎ Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Country Director-Bangladesh.
∎ Prepare feedback reports for UK headquarters within appropriate timeframe.
∎ Attend internal and external meetings as and when required.
∎ This position requires regular attendance at least 5 days per week.
∎ Must be available to work outside normal office hours or at the weekends as required.
∎ The role is mainly office-based in Dhaka, however the candidate must be able to travel as required (minimum 20% to 30%).
∎ Whilst performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well is to infectious diseases.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 4+ years of relevant experience in WASH service delivery in national and international organizations.
∎ Requires good leadership, team building spirit and problem solving skills; should be able to draw confidence and support from others.
∎ Must be a person who is self-motivated with good interpersonal skills.
∎ Possess personal integrity, flexible attitude, sense of transparency, proactive stance and respect for gender diversity.
∎ Competent to make effective decisions, uphold organisational values, promote integrity and advance organisational mission and vision.
∎ Able to plan, prioritise and organise him/herself and others.
∎ Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
∎ Skills to use different technological resources (computer, multimedia projector, internet, email, computer aided systems, widely used software etc).
∎ Excellent presentation and oral communication skills both in Bangla and English.
∎ Excellent writing skills in English.
∎ Experience in and trained in safeguarding.
∎ Experience in organising workshops and training sessions.
Salary: Tk. 60000 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Two festival bonus, monthly mobile phone allowance and health insurance
Application Deadline: 10 Jul 2020
Company Information:
∎ 30 Jun 2020
∎ Penny Appeal
Category: NGO/Development
