Overview
Oversees WASH management and technical implementation of the WASH portfolio programme across South. Contributes to the development of area strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks while ensuring compliance with WASH technical standards.
Tasks Summary
- Planning, assessments, implementation, monitoring and reporting of WASH activities and projects in the south including West Coast and Lahj
- Programmatic oversight of budgets, teams from development to implementation, monitoring and closure
- Technical oversight through capacity building of teams, development of technical standards across DRC programmes, consortiums
- Representation of DRC in relevant humanitarian coordination fora, especially WASH Sub-National cluster
- Engagement with UN & NGO counterparts and local WASH authorities
- Planning, strategizing and undertaking WASH activities in emergency and longer-term activities
- Contributing to the harmonization of WASH tools and guidelines and to the development of DRC’s WASH strategy
- Overseeing technical quality, advocacy for those most in need and fundraising and cluster engagement across West Coast, Aden Hub and Lahj
- Ensuring timely and technically sound planning, implementation and monitoring of WASH projects
- Contributing to the development of proposals through needs assessments, technical inputs and budgeting
- Leading on the identification of integrated WASH area-based strategy in the south
- Identifying opportunities for sustainability of WASH intervention and community self-reliance
- Providing technical leadership and inputs for technical proposals, high impact projects, emergency WASH response and sustainable WASH solutions
- Streamlining cross sectoral integration and mainstreaming of AGD and accountability mechanisms
- Conducting comparative eco technical analysis where required and ensuring compliance with ECHO WASH policy
- Ensuring provision of complementary WASH services
- Advocating and supporting relevant government bodies to encourage monitoring and planning in sustainable use of water resources
- Providing technical support to other DRC sectors in reviewing designing any infrastructure work
- Ensuring capacity building plans for technical and programmatic capacity for the national staff
- Ensuring accurate and timely internal, donor and cluster reporting
- Developing program tools, SOPs and standards as needed
- Conducting quality control and site monitoring
- Ensuring Program monitoring as per expected outputs and outcomes
- Monitoring financial spending and budgets
- Developing and undertaking needs assessments
Experience Requirements
- Experience in WASH management and technical implementation
- Experience in planning, assessments, implementation, monitoring and reporting of WASH activities and projects
- Experience in programmatic oversight of budgets and teams
- Experience in technical oversight through capacity building of teams and development of technical standards
- Experience in representation of organisation in relevant humanitarian coordination fora
- Experience in engaging with UN & NGO counterparts and local authorities
- Experience in planning, strategizing and undertaking WASH activities in emergency and longer-term activities
- Experience in contributing to the harmonization of WASH tools and guidelines
- Experience in contributing to the development of WASH strategy
- Experience in overseeing technical quality, advocacy and fundraising
- Experience in ensuring timely and technically sound planning, implementation and monitoring of WASH projects
- Experience in contributing to the development of proposals through needs assessments, technical inputs and budgeting
- Experience in leading on the identification of integrated WASH area-based strategy
- Experience in identifying opportunities for sustainability of WASH intervention and community self-reliance
- Experience in providing technical leadership and inputs for technical proposals, high impact projects, emergency WASH response and sustainable WASH solutions
- Experience in streamlining cross sectoral integration and mainstreaming of AGD and accountability mechanisms
- Experience in conducting comparative eco technical analysis
- Experience in ensuring provision of complementary WASH services
- Experience in advocating and supporting relevant government bodies
- Experience in providing technical support to other sectors in reviewing designing any infrastructure work
- Experience in ensuring capacity building plans for technical and programmatic capacity for national staff
- Experience in ensuring accurate and timely internal, donor and cluster reporting
- Experience in developing program tools, SOPs and standards
- Experience in conducting quality control and site monitoring
- Experience in ensuring Program monitoring as per expected outputs and outcomes
- Experience in monitoring financial spending and budgets
- Experience in developing and undertaking needs assessments
Qualification Requirements