WASH Project Manager (National Position) Yemen Sana'a

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 8 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 8 (NRC) contracts.

Your purpose as the WASH Project Manager will be to implement delegated WASH project portfolio

Your specific responsibilities will include

• Provide technical oversight of NRC WASH activities in the Area, ensuring quality standards; conducting field visits and ensuring that project implementation complies with donors’ agreed requirements, community expectations, global standards, and NRC policies; and managing assessments and evaluations
• Train and support WASH staff capacity building by regularly leading trainings and workshops
• Support WASH Specialist with proposal development, as required
• Develop implementation and procurement plans for all projects and track weekly progress against targets
• Maintain overall responsibility for monitoring budgets; ensuring project implementation staff are adequately trained in tracking expenditure; and working with project teams to improve value for money and cost efficiency
• Ensure the effective, accurate and timely monitoring, supervision, evaluation and reporting of projects; providing M&E support to implementation staff; supporting the Support and Finance teams with tracking and compiling financial reports; compiling narrative reports for donors and any other project documentation; and ensuring learning from M&E activities is fed back to staff and stakeholders and used for continuous quality improvement of programming.
• Collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders
• Represent NRC in WASH cluster and its sub technical group in coordination with WASH specialist

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Required Professional competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering,
• Minimum 3 years of experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Technical WASH expertise from rural and urban contexts, including experience with construction of water surface systems
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Contextual skills, knowledge and experience that will enable you exceed our expectations

• Knowledge of the context in Sana’a Hub
• Experience scaling-up projects
• Strong experience in community driven WASH programming
• Strong inter-personal, communication and network-building skills
• Strong organizational and team working skills
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity

What we offer

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to 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 the initiative

• 12 months fixed term contract
• Senior grade 8 in NRC's grade structure
• An opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause
• A chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply but we are also open to external applicants who can show a commitment to NRC and being part of a challenging, but important mission to make a difference.

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