Senior Emergency Rapid Response Officer

Job Description

About IRC: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarians agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violent conflict. IRC has worked for over seven decades in the world addressing both the immediate, lifesaving needs of conflict-affected people in an emergency and the reconstruction need in post-conflict societies. IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships, and detailed accountability to those we serve.

Job Overview/Summary: The Senior Emergency Rapid Response Officer reports to Emergency Rapid Response (ERR) Manager and is responsible to assist ERR manager in planning, management and monitoring of EH intervention around Wereda. The program focuses on maintaining to ensure adequate environmental health conditions are met in drought and Conflict affected area. The principal role of the position holder is to do assessment/planning, designing, development/rehabilitation of water supply and water trucking and the day-to-day operation of the EH programs. Furthermore, the senior Officer will Assist the ERR Manager in maintaining effective operational processes. The position demands working internally with IRC WASH, Health, ES/NFI, CWI, ERD, operation/support team and Field Coordinators and externally with other INGOs/NGOs, Government partners, Clusters and Task Forces.

Major Responsibilities****:

- Reports to ERR Manager, - Produce weekly, monthly, quarterly, Government and donor report. - In collaboration with other team members, the EHO undertakes detail need assessments to Identify water supply systems to rehabilitate and maintain. - Undertakes the led for management of construction for the water scheme rehabilitation like DBH rehabilitation, Spring rehabilitation, maintenance and installation of HDW and Water ration service - Prepare design & detail bills of quantities, budget estimates in response to emerging emergencies throughout the country and forward to supervisor for review. - Owns the Preparation of detail physical & financial, spending, procurement and implementation plan for Resilience and emerging emergency responses - Supervises the progress and implementation of subcontracted emergency response intervention as per the contract and Prepare detail specification for items to be procured and ensure its procurements are as per set specifications. - Identify and establish water trucking and water treatment sites and Supervise water trucking operations and water treatment systems. - Prepare detail specification for items to be procured and ensure its procurements - Are as per set specifications. - Works closely with, Zone/Woreda Water and Health Offices towards efficient and - effective process of the response and with IRC Hygiene Promotion Officers in promotion of safe hygiene practices in Emergency responses which includes Health Promotion - activities.

Coordination and working relationship:

- Maintain and take the lead on creating strong working relationship with respective IRC support staff, other program staff and other partners. - Coordinate and connect with IRC staff on the ground, the water team and HP team. - In collaboration with immediate supervisors and other IRC staff, handle and - Take the own the proper utilization of the allocated budget for the HP and capacity Building activities under the project activities and - collaborate closely with IRC’s supply chain, HR, and finance for effective process of the intended activities as per log frame of the proposal. - Work with HR on the recruitment of HP and CB staff under his/her supervision in consultation with ERR manager/delegate according to IRC Human resource policy. - Implements any additional assignments assigned by supervisor. - Active participation on sub national and regional as needed WASH cluster and ICCG meetings, forums and learning events.

Reports and Proposals: -----------------------

- Prepare a monthly progress report and weekly update and submit to the ERR manager/delegate as per the agreed the reporting time scheduled. - Draft the Quarterly progress report for Donor and Government and Share to the ERR Manager/delegate for revision and compilation and take feedbacks and response accordingly. - Supports the ERR manager/ delegate to make sure the government MOUs are prepared, reviewed by all concerned bodies, and signed laterally by all signatory bodies in timely manner. - Coordinate and ensure the documentation of every project activity, formative assessments, KPC survey and capacity building activities both in hard and soft copies supported by pictures. - Leads and facilitate the new proposal assessments through preparation of clear TOR and assigning respective staff for the assessment. - Leads the compiling of the field assessment reports serve as major input for project proposal writing. - Leads the development of first-hand CN as per the need assessment in collaboration with other ERR team,

Grant and Budget Monitoring and Management

- Ensure that budgets for Water Supply construction, sanitation and Hygiene and capacity Building activities are spent according to plan conventional in the project proposal. - Ensure that program spending is in line with original plan, IRC rule and policy and burn rate goes in line with the activity implementation scheduled detail plan and in progress. - Ensure that project activities, spending, and Procurement plans are fully in compliance with the donor regulations, developed on time and properly implemented. - Lead and give mentorship for the EH, HP and CB team/officers to work on the detail activity, Spending and Procurement plan with clear timeline of implementation. - Lead and create the Budget monitoring and trucking tools to have the best monitoring mechanism in program activity Implementation. - Actively work with all concerned body on the BVA clearance and budget management.

Qualifications

- MSC/BSc in Water Resource Engineering or Hydraulic Engineering. - 4/3 years of minimum proven experience for BSc/Post-graduate Degree holders, respectively. - Demonstrated experience in project management skills with ability to plan, organize, and supervise project activities. - Demonstrated experience on WASH and capacity building activities especially in emergency project contexts. - Demonstrated experience of resources management skills and team spirit building skills.

Skills Required: ----------------

- Good communication and interpersonal skills. - 1 year proven supervisory skill. - Experience in budget management, Ability to use computer (basic operating systems, AUTOCAD, WATCAD, EPHANET) and Technical and report writing skills. - Profession and report write skill. - Project management, management skill. - Computer literate. (Outlook, power point, excel and word processing) - Fluent spoken and written English. Knowledge of Afaan Oromo language is helpful.