Global Roving Emergency WASH Specialist

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

Background

NRC’s Emergency Response Section (ERS) leads the organisation’s overall capacity to respond to new and emerging humanitarian crises, including through active monitoring, innovation and system development, crisis activation and emergency deployments. Working across all organisational levels, the ERS provides guidance and capacity to enable established country offices to respond to emerging crises and leads on the establishment of new country start-ups responding to critical humanitarian situations. The ERS’ multi-disciplinary team of roving emergency experts is backed by a small team of technical leads at head office, focused on ensuring that NRC’s emergency responses are principled, timely, agile and relevant to the priorities of people affected by crises.

What you will do

• Developing WASH strategy, technical guidance and Macro Logrames that are aligned with NRC’s Global WASH Strategy and regional strategies and priorities
• Contributing to fundraising, developing and revising funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
• Identifying trends, technical standards and donor priorities
• Following up on compliance with contractual commitments within WASH, ensuring high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
• Providing technical direction and project implementation support
• Ensuring that key learnings are extracted from WASH implementation, and incorporate them in WASH and staff development processes
• Providing systematic training and building capacity of technical staff
• Representing NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors
• Promoting the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
• Contribute to WASH’s global programme development initiatives.
• Work jointly with other Core Competencies (including Education; Shelter, WASH, Protection and Livelihoods and Food Security) and thematic experts to address barriers to claiming rights and ensure high quality, safe services.
• Support ERS and GPS to further develop, integrate and implement CC and thematic specific First Line Response component as well as other broader initiatives (incl. Cash & Market based interventions).

Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental, Hydraulic or Civil Engineering or Environmental or Public Health Science or related field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience within WASH technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context, including in a managerial capacity
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Advanced WASH knowledge and expertise
• Familiarity with and experience of using cash-based approaches in emergencies
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. French, Spanish or Arabic languages skills are an asset.

Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environments
• Strategic thinking
• Empowering and building trust
• Influencing
• Initiate action and change
• Analysing

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take initiative.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Additional Information:

Duty Station: Global Roving

Travel: Up to 75%

Duration of contract: 24 Months.

Grade 9 in NRC's grading structure

Reports to (overall reporting): Head of Emergency Human Resources

Reports to (during deployments): Head of Programme

Technical reporting line to: Global WASH Lead

Provides supervision to: Defined per deployment

We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates to be sent on or before July 9, 2023.

All applications should be submitted in English!

This position is open to qualified candidates of all nationalities!

Please ensure you attach copies of your academic and professional certificates.

For more information regarding the role, here is the detailed job description.

For any queries, please email us at [email protected] with “Global Roving Emergency WASH Specialist ” as the subject line.