CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Concern Worldwide
Country: Sudan
Closing date: 20 Sep 2013

Contract Length: 1 yearDate Needed By: Nov 2013New Post or Replacement: Replacement Accompanied / Unaccompanied: Unaccompanied Exact Job Location: Geneina with travel to other field locations as required, approximately 20% in Geneina and 80% of his/her time in the field.Reports To: Senior Programme Advisor Responsible For: The post will have a dotted line working relationship with 4 WASH Programme Officers based in four field sitesLiaises With: Field Coordinator, M&E Coordinator, Health Officer, Nutrition Programme Manager , Programme Support Officer, Livelihoods and Food Security Advisor and Assistant Area Co-ordinators.Job Purpose:To provide technical leadership and quality control in management, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion project and maintain and improve established systems & structures required for the effective timely implementation of quality water, sanitation and hygiene promotion project. To ensure management and timely implementation of quality project that achieve its objectives, readily accountable to stakeholder as well as to provide effective management that ensure accountable use of project resources (finance, human resources and logistic).

Main Duties & Responsibilities:• Be directly responsible for the technical guidance and implementation of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme in West Darfur.• Work with management while providing technical leadership in the design of a medium term WASH intervention, which addresses current emergency needs but which takes a longer-term view in enhancing mitigation to future crises and accountable management of resources as well as develop an overall direction and strategy for the WASH Programme in West Darfur, with activities, work-plans, budgets and monitoring frameworks to ensure the program meets its objectives. • Ensure that minimum standards of technical quality are adhered to in all engineering activities and interventions, which are technically appropriate, realistic and on budget.• Ensure that monitoring framework within the programme touching on WASH interventions is implemented, including baseline data, secondary data, reviews, donor reporting, KABP survey and internal/external evaluations.• Actively monitor all identified WASH indicators in programme documents and relevant standards with support from Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator.• Contribute to the development of all WASH Programme projects in the form of draft project concept notes and draft proposals in consultation with the Programme and Field Coordinators.• To develop contingency plans with other agencies in the WASH Sector, which are realistically costed and which will allow Concern to respond quickly and appropriately to serious Environmental health outbreaks. Particular attention must be paid to potential cholera and acute watery/bloody diarrhoea outbreaks during and following rainy seasons.• To ensure creative and holistic approach to WASH programming, assist the team in finding ways to integrate/link and combine hygiene & health promotion, water and sanitation facilities design, construction & maintenance, with Health , Nutrition, Livelihoods and food security etc.• To provide guidance and training so that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and gender issues, and that community-determined and self-motivated methods (“empowering methods”) are used in preference to didactic (message-based) approaches.• To work with the team to ensure all activities are planned, prioritized, carried out and monitored in efficient and effective ways, with due consideration to gender and advocacy issues and also provide effective management and high quality technical planning and implementation inputs for resulting schedules of work and monitoring against agreed indicators.

• To provide technical expertise and guidance to staff as appropriate, in (for example, but not limited to) assessment, monitoring, evaluation, reporting (Internal and Donor Reports), financial management, proposal development, technical design of water and sanitation facilities and the exercise of judgment skills.
• Contribute towards staff Performance development Review for the WASH Programme staff, identify appropriate staff development needs and give recommendations to AAC and Programme Coordinator. This will include development of a training needs assessment for the sector staff• Ensure handover of completed works to communities and Water Users Associations (WUCs) for longer-term management under the auspices of WES (Water and Environmental Sanitation Department) and their capacity is built to effectively manage and operate the water infrastructures constructed.• Work to ensure accountability to beneficiaries and other key stakeholders. Ensure that HIV/AIDS, gender, protection and environmental impact are mainstreamed in all WASH projects.• To work with the team to provide appropriate and regular verbal and written reports to the Programme Coordinator.• Represent Concern Worldwide WASH Programme in appropriate forum both internally and externally. i.e. Darfur Management team, West Darfur Sector Coordination meetings etc.

PERSON SPECIFICATIONESSENTIALEducation, Qualifications & Experience Required:
• Relevant post degree level qualification in Engineering (Civil/Water/Environmental), Hydrogeology, Public Health or Environmental Resource Management• Minimum of three years overseas experience with an NGO implementing participatory Water and Sanitation programmes• Experience with Participatory Hygiene Promotion• Experience in Drilling and the development of Rural Water Supplies• Familiarity with humanitarian law and principles of humanitarian action (international code of conduct and humanitarian charter) • Familiarity with Sphere guidelines and people in aid, code of best practice• Knowledge of Humanitarian Accountability Principles

DESIRABLEEducation, Qualifications & Experience Required: • Qualification in Hygiene Promotion/Environmental Health. • Experience of work in Sudan / Horn of Africa region• Experience in working in a complex emergency context• Experience in Training and Capacity Building• Experience in Developing and Setting Up Monitoring and Evaluation Tools in hygiene promotion• Experience of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity• Empathy with Concern’s goals and a commitment to capacity building, protection and participation • Good communication and training / capacity building skills • Proven organisation, planning and management skills• Ability to work on own initiative and lead diverse teams• Flexible and adaptable to a changing environment• Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines• Knowledge of computer applications i.e. Microsoft word, Excel, communications systems. • Knowledge of Engineering Software programmes like AutoCAD, WaterCAD etc• Ability to live and work in a close team environmentAny Other Special Requirements:

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date.CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. All candidates who are short-listed for a first round interview will be notified via email after the application deadline

How to apply:

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date.CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. All candidates who are short-listed for a first round interview will be notified via email after the application deadline