WASH Officer Afghanistan Kunduz

Medical & Health

Overview

Lead WASH projects, ensure beneficiary needs are met, and promote the rights of displaced persons.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or prior experience with NRC in WASH section.
• At least 3 years of previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area preferably with UN, INGOs or Government Joint initiated projects.
• Fluency in English and local language Dari/Pashto.
• Excellent verbal communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel and Power Point).

Contract

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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

Caution: This role is national, only Internal candidates from Afghanistan will be considered.

For more details about the Job Description and NRC's Grade Structure please click on: Job Description and NRC Grade Structure.

Generic responsibilities:

• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
• Provide regular progress reports to WASH coordinator.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries are most in need of protection.
• Share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in activities of WASH project.
• Ensure capacity building of technical assistants and transfer key skills.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Ensure compliance with WASH strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.

Specific responsibilities:

• Have full understanding of all programs’ goals, objectives, implementation plan and expected result / output.
• Ensure all assessments, implementations and monitoring has been done in proper way.
• Manage all the phases of the WASH activities.
• Ensure appropriateness of all WASH technical document.
• Ensure technical aspects and high quality of projects.
• Leading WASH team in Kunduz province.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Participate in meetings and trainings when scheduled.
• Supervise the delivery, distributions, and implementation of (WASH) interventions in field.
• Provision of weekly and monthly plan for WASH team.
• Work closely with all WASH projects stockholders.
• Coordinate closely his or her activities with WASH Coordinator
• Assist her/his direct supervisor/Coordinator on planning, organizing, facilitating and monitoring of projects.
• Be willing to travel in districts and other provinces.
• Ensure all integrated projects has been properly coordinated and implemented with CCs.
• Any others tasks assigned by supervisors/ WASH Coordinator.

Other Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Provide an enabling environment for the implementation of cash-based interventions, including multi-purpose cash assistance, emergency cash responses.

Generic professional competencies:

• Ability to engage and motivate staff in a challenging programme area.
• Excellent familiarity with cultural sensitivities, ethnic groups and security situation of Northern provinces especially Faryab province.
• Planning and delivering results.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or prior experience with NRC in WASH section.
• At least 3 years of previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area preferably with UN, INGOs or Government Joint initiated projects.
• Excellent verbal communication, negotiation and problems solving skill.
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel and Power Point).
• Fluency in English and local language Dari/Pashto

Behavioural competencies:

• Communicating with impact and respect
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Flexibility, creativity and good sense of humor
• Fair treatment, impartial & humanity – based thinker

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis.

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