Shelter & WASH Officer (SC National Emergency Roster)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH

Background:

NRC has been active in Somalia since 2004 with four area offices in Kismayu, Mogadishu, Garowe and Hargeisa, providing protection and humanitarian assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees in Somaliland, Puntland, South Central and Jubbaland regions. NRC offers a comprehensive response for returnees and IDPs of high need, addressing their food security, livelihood, shelter, education, ICLA, and water, hygiene and sanitation needs and also responding to emergencies through NRC’s five core competences: Shelter, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).

In response to the ongoing emergency response, NRC is setting up roster for programme roles that area office could use. We are seeking highly qualified, resilient, dynamic professionals to respond to the emergency and support affected people.

Your passion, skills, and experience can make a big difference.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Assessment on site needs and resources, existing well and latrine types, data on community intended to be benefitted.
2. Beneficiary selection. Identify vulnerable families eligible for assistance for well construction according to established selection criteria.
3. Site selection. Asses, analyzse and finalize the well digging locations/villages in consultation with community.
4. Arrange community meetings and explain them roles and responsibilities of water committees
5. Train water committee on maintenance of water facilities and provide on job training
6. Check the quality of well digging done by community (community contribution) and contractor at different stages.
7. Responsible to install hand pumps for all drilled/dug wells in consultation with logistic department
8. Coordinate with logistic department for delivering hand pumps to the sites
9. Contribute in designing latrine, water supply and sanitation related activities and define Bill of Quantities (BOQ) of infrastructures and prepare all technical drawings actively in preparing and conducting assessment survey to control progress of program and efficiency of activities
10. Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and marked based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies
11. Support Emergency Manager & area CC Coordinators to prioritize the emergency activities in different regions such as field assessments, distribution, responses, PDM, risk monitoring

Skills & Experience

• Degree in Water Engineering, electric engineering, Civil Engineering, Public health, Community development, Geology or any related discipline.
• At least two to three years in design and implementation of Water and Sanitation schemes projects
• Knowledge of AutoCAD, WaterCAD or any civil works design software is highly desirable
• Experience from working with WASH and Shelter projects in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge of English

More Information

• Duty Station: South Central
• NRC’s Salary Scale: NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

N.B: This is a temporary assignment focused on emergency response. Selected candidates will be deployed as needed during emergencies with short-term employment contract.

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