WASH & Infrastructure Officer-1

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable childrens life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Project Planning and Capacity Building.

• Conduct all WASH UP and WASH needs assessments and ensure that are in line with programme demands and existing gaps;
• Ensure all plans and coordination with relevant key project staff and stakeholders for WASH UP and WASH trainings.
• Ensure that all WASH UP and WASH activities are planned and implemented with quality.

Coordination to ensure effective programme delivery.

• Conduct train to Water Management Committees on management, fee collection and maintenance boreholes;
• Conduct train to local artisans on repair major damage on water infrastructure and link them with Water Management Committees;
• Conduct train to School Heath Teacher on WASH UP, SLTS, CLST, PHAST and other WASH behaviour change component.
• Support schools on establishment of school WASH UP clubs;
• Supervise and ensure that all Water Management Committees are functional;
• Supervise and ensure that all school WASH UP clubs are functional;
• Collaborate closely with the project team to coordinate on-job Behaviour change trainings, ensure quality implementation of Behaviour change actions, and gain insights from the field.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Conduct regular and on demand monitoring and support visits to Water Management Committees and WASH UP activities to ensure consistency, quality and minimum standards are upheld in the activities implementation;
• Monitor and ensure that all water and sanitation infrastructure are functional;
• Ensure that the lessons learnt from programme monitoring are incorporated into implementation plans and approaches;
• Ensure the scale-up of WASH UP model after piloting

Documentation and Reporting

• Develop and maintain a database of all Water Management Committees and School Wash Clubs, documenting status and challenges.
• Develop and maintain a database of all water and sanitation infrastructures in the district, documenting status and challenges.
• Provide technical and quality reports where required.
• Prepare and submit the monthly monitoring report (MMR);
• Document all site visits in a visit report; provide a copy of this to the District Manager, WASH and MEAL Coordinator to ensure issues are documented; ensure photos and issues are included within these reports.

General

• Communicate World Vision’s Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.
• While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the duties involved in this position, World Vision reserves the right to add, remove or alter duties when necessary.
• Attend and lead weekly devotions.

Required Professional Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of specific experience in behaviour change programming, ideally linked to WASH programs and School Infrastructures constructions (Water and Sanitation);
• A good understanding of social and technical aspects of WASH programmes as well as community behaviour change.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification.

• Minimum of middle level of WASH related-are, Civil Construction, Hydraulics, or Public Health.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Strong planning and organizational skills;
• Ability to communicate complicated technical issues in a simple manner that can be understood by non-technical people and to provide ongoing coaching in these areas;
• Computer skills in Microsoft Word and Excel, or other similar software.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

1 Officer to be based in Milange district (Zambezia Province)

1 Officer to be based in Namialo, with frequent travels to Meconta and Monapo Districts (in Nampula Province)

Language Requirements

Fluent in Portuguese and local languages

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only