Overview
Provide strategic vision, guidance, and technical leadership to Oxfam’s country WASH programme and sector in Yemen. Responsible for strengthening lifesaving rapid response in WASH through preparedness and contingency planning, scaling up services, and promoting resilience and sustainability.
Tasks Summary
- Provide strategic and operational management of WASH programs, technical people and funds.
- Lead the development/update of Country WASH strategy including contingency planning.
- Lead the actualization/development and endorsement of the OXFAM WASH sector strategy document.
- Contribute to knowledge building and sharing within Yemen and other Oxfam offices.
- Explore and develop strategic partnership with ministries, technical departments and local govt/councils.
- Liaise with donors and dev partners on WASH technical issues.
- Advocate on programmatic options and link in with policy/advocacy team.
- Contribute to HRP/HNOs and WASH cluster strategy, SoPs for cholerae/IDPs/Famine, SAG.
- Represent Oxfam at national Coordination and relevant sub-cluster meetings.
- Develop innovative wash approaches around recycling, bio-initiatives.
- Continuously assess the context, and design/adapt the program and team composition.
- Provide guidance on technical assessment of large water supply schemes, design and implementation.
- Develop guidelines and tools with teams for implementation.
- Ensure a high quality, multi-sectoral approach, aiming at reaching minimum SPHERE, CHS, AAP and internal technical standards.
- Promote active participation of Local Partners in the development and implementation of new projects.
- Build capacity of Local Partners in WASH.
- Support the preparation/ inception of projects, including recruitment of key WASH staff and activity planning.
- Work closely with Oxfam’s technical team, Civil Society Program, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
- Endeavour to ensure a good working relationship with support functions.
- Proactively ensure that gender equity issues are taken into account in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
- Ensure that the program is accountable to beneficiaries through promoting their participation.
- Provide technical support on developing new MEAL tools.
- Guide and support field staff in effective on-going monitoring on project outcomes/impacts.
- Guide the team in planning and analysis in the baseline, mid-term review and final evaluations.
- Ensure project learning is captured, consolidated and disseminated.
- Incorporate best practices in projects, and guide program staff on sharing strategies, procedures, successes and lessons learnt.
- Responsible for WASH contribution to Oxfam’s work, representing and developing good relationships with clusters, UN and other agencies, authorities.
- Keep informed of relevant program issues and context and to contribute to wider program learning.
- Work together with the Technical Leads advocating on issues raised by program team.
- Lead on reporting writing and provide updates to WASH cluster.
- Actively contribute to disseminate Yemen experience and best practices.
- Empowering and developing WASH staff, being inclusive while taking decisions and accountable to the team, partners and beneficiaries.
- Update and advice on WASH staffing architecture with transition and succession plan.
- Matrix line management of PHE TLs and PHP TLs ensuring that overall performance management is in place.
- Build a strong team spirit and vision.
- Ensure internal coordination mechanism is in place.
- Support the team in detailed activity planning, procurement and distribution planning.
- Provide regular, consistently high-quality reports on program and projects.
- Maintain contact with authorities, UN and other agencies.
- Proactively participate in WASH cluster meeting, ensuring issues of concern are advocated for.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years’ international experience in emergency WASH in leadership positions with reputed WASH agencies/UN in large scale humanitarian response.
- Strategic development skills, with the ability to translate concepts easily into practical actions.
- Prior experience in working in a fragile state and leading positions (desirable).
- Balanced Urban/Rural WASH resilience and experience of CASH/Market base intervention (desirable).
Qualification Requirements
• A suitable qualification in any discipline relating to Public Health Engineering.
