• Provide on job and field level mentoring to the hygiene volunteers, HDAs , contractors, skilled and unskilled daily laborer’s, IDPs and partners at field level under his duty areas of assignment.
• They will serve as a focal point in leading the research components of the project in Central zone of the Tigray region.
• Lead the rapid and detail assessment Ensure high quality activity implementation timeline, detail procurement as well as spending plans prepared in the first month of the project period with the good engagement of the WASH staffs in Michew field office.
• Whenever required, the position holder will take the leadership in conducting rapid as well as detail assessments and prepare intervention activities, beneficiaries as well as sectors integration matrixes and follow their implementations with the field team on regular basis.

• Take the lead and support WASH assistants-engineers to prepare detailed procurement, supply, and spending plans for identified WASH PHE&PHP undertakings.
• Support the WASH coordinator to ensure effective follow up while tracking the spending’s against the plan to ensure they are implemented within the budget frame and in compliance with FHI 360 and donor requirements.
• Supervise and produce progress reports on implementation of planned basic rehabilitations and infrastructural improvements at IDPs, community and inside health facilities.
• Support and guide field assistants, contractors, skilled and unskilled labors and volunteers in closely and daily following up WASH related interventions implementation to meet the anticipated quality standards.
• Support in processing relevant written external communications as required.
• Participate and lead technical assessments as required – including KAP surveys and detailed damage status assessments. Prepare relevant reports and ensure good documentations are in place, including pictorial reports that will inform FHI 360’s humanitarian efforts.
• Support the WASH coordinator to ensure effective follow up while tracking the procurement and spending’s against the plan to ensure they are implemented within the budget frame and in compliance with FHI 360 and donor requirements.
• Support and guide field assistants, contractors, skilled and unskilled labors and volunteers as well as HDAs in closely and daily following up WASH related interventions implementation to meet the anticipated quality standards.
• Support in processing relevant written external communications as required.
• Any additional tasks assigned by the supervisor.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in humanitarian response projects – preferably with INGOs, or community development areas.
• First degree (for those with 5-years’ experience) and MSc degree (for those with 3-years’ experience) in water resource, civil , ,water supply and sanitation engineering and related fields.
• Hands on experience designing, implementing, and managing humanitarian WASH programs.
• Experience in successfully implementing community and IDP -based WASH responses in crises response , in the region is an asset.
• Knowledge of the recently established different global WASH strategies, related online tools and applications as well as resilient WASH has added value.
• Experience in preparing, evaluating construction bids, managing payment claims, supervising sites.
• Good understanding of the strategies and practices in Ethiopia regarding the WASH sector.
• Experience conducting rapid needs assessments; baseline assessments, etc. a plus.
• Sound understanding of the socio-economic and political situation in the working region.
• Experience representing employer at relevant platforms and liaising with key stakeholders.
• Willing to travel frequently and for extended period to FHI 360 operational locations in Tigray region whenever required.
• Good understanding of the UN Cluster System; international and national minimum standards
• Fluent in in English and strong knowledge of local language as well as additional languages in Ethiopia is a plus.

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