INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

For WASH Program Manager

Country Office: Ethiopia

Work Base: Hararghe

Availability: As Soon As Possible

Salary Scale: EMS09

Salary and other benefits: Gross salary ETB 42,600-48,772

Insurance - (Life, Group Personal Accident, and Medical Insurances are covered upon the organization policies).

Seniority Allowance – paid to depend on the years of service.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position.

About Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger was founded in 1979 as an international non-governmental organization that fights against hunger in the world. Our mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through preventing, detecting, and treating undernutrition, especially during and after emergencies related to conflicts and natural disasters.

The international network of Action Against Hunger has offices in France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, the USA, India, and Belgium. Teams in the field combat hunger on four fronts: Nutrition and Health, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).

About Action Against Hunger - USA

As the world’s hunger specialist, our primary goal is to create a better way to deal with hunger. For more than 40 years, we have led the global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. With 7,500+ staff, our teams have been on the front lines, treating and preventing malnutrition across more than 45 countries, assisting more than 21 million people.

We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change.

About the Country Program in Ethiopia

Action Against Hunger has been operational in Ethiopia since 1985 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sectoral strategic approach where Nutrition and Health, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) are integrated in order to maximize impact on people’s resilience.

Action Against Hunger currently operates in 5 different regions with an anticipated 2020 yearly portfolio of $20M of emergency and resilience-building programs, research, and innovation. We have a country team of about 550 staff working out of 18 field offices and sub-offices across Ethiopia.

Our main donors in Ethiopia are ECHO, Europaid, UNHCR, OFDA, BPRM, SIDA, EHF, WFP, UNICEF, and others.

General Assignments / Scope of the Role:

To ensure that Action Against Hunger Ethiopia’s emergency and development WASH projects at the duty station, incorporates all the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene standard requirements and that quality assurance systems are developed to monitor the performance of these activities for affected communities, health institutions, Schools and IDP’s (internally displaced peoples

To ensure the proper planning, implementation, and timely completion of WASH projects at different intervention areas and check compliance with ACF working systems and procedures.

To manage WASH program activities, staff and coordinate with government line bureaus and humanitarian actors in ACF different intervention areas. He/she will be involved in all the project management cycle (assessment, emergency response plan, proposal writing, implementation, M&E, and report writing to all stakeholder

The WASH Program Manager role’s purpose, engagement, and delivery are:

Purpose (The substantive focus of the job encompassing scope, depth, and difficulty of work both conceptual and applied)

Objective 1:- Contribute to the definition and implementation of AAH Policies, positioning, and strategies in the mission.

• Implements, in the framework of WASH projects implementations of the missions’ WASH strategy taking into account the key internal and external documents: AAH charter, 2021 strategic framework, policies (WaSH and other AAH sector), Positioning papers (WaSH and transversals), national strategies and other specific legal framework enforced by the body/department in charge of WASH issues.
• Contributes to the definitions of the missions WaSH strategy in cooperation with WaSH TA’s.

Objective 2:-Contribute to the identification, definition, formulation of WaSH projects

• Responsible for the geographic areas of intervention and working with target populations and local administrative  and active WASH partners in the areas
• Needs assessments and related reports. These reports must be written and transmitted to the WaSH TA for feedback and enrichment.
• Writing and submission to the WaSH TA’s of WaSH related parts of the proposals (proposal narratives, budget, and LFA)
• Follow up the general situation(AWD, Outbreaks, flood and natural and manmade humanitarian crisis,…) of intervention areas and immediately forward feedback

Objective 3: Contribute to evaluation (internal and external) of project effect/impact.

• Contribute to the definitions of external evaluations (opportunities, ToR,….), supports external evaluators (during their missions), and implement recommendations coming out from external evaluations
• Implement a double KAP(Baseline and Endline KAP) for relevant projects
• Ensure and follow up data are properly prepared, codded, collected, analyzed, and reported
• Ensure participatory monitoring of projects and update the result for relevant stakeholders in consultation with WaSH TA’s
• Collect data using GPS and plot on the intervention area map
• Prepare various WASH related success and case stories in collaboration with MEAL at base

Objective 4: Contribute pro-actively to HR management (including national staff career plan development)

• Responsible for a functional and hierarchical manager for the WaSH teams working on a project(S) at the duty stations and WASH staff working at the base.
• Takes part in activities in the recruitment and the training of WASH staffs, in cooperation with the administrator or the logistic- administrator office
• Ensure the evaluation (performance appraisal) of base WASH staffs a
• Ensure that WaSH staffs weekly movement plan are in conformity with meeting objectives of the program
• Follow up staff movement (peridiem, day-offs, annual leave..) logistical needs, 
• Responsible to Perform any other relevant/emerging duties and tasks assigned by supervisors ( field coordinators and capital WASH team )

Engagement: (The focus of interaction both internally and externally needed to deliver a service seek collaboration and build effective partnerships)

Objective 5: Ensure Local AAH representation and coordination with other stakeholders within the intervention area

• Coordinates AAH’s action with other stakeholders working in the intervention area
• Support capacity building of AAH WaSH partners in the area of intervention
• Promotes partnership with Local NGO’s, including capacity building, at district/provincial/regional level
• Represent AAH regularly on various WASH related meeting held at regional and zone cluster meeting, consortium and GO/NGOs and partners forums

Objective 6: Contribute to the mission’s capitalization and communication, strategy, and vision of AAH

• Writes and submits a handover/mission reports when WASH  projects are ended using the AAH format
• Ensure the compilation on a soft drive of all essential documents related to WASH project(s) and transmits them to the WaSH TA’s. The WaSH TA’s will ensure that technically validated documents are further disseminated
• Ensure a compilation of soft drive of all relevant pictures of WASH project(s). these photos have to be transmitted to the communication department during the end of mission debriefing period at the HQ
• Closely work, coordinate and link with the WaSH TA’s an update on WASH implementation and humanitarian updates on a regular basis.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of capitalization/technical research topics and advocacy activities.
• Contribute to the setup of the AAH WaSH database in the mission
• Representing AAH participate in the regional joint WaSH assessments, surveillances, and task force meetings and forward feedbacks on time to line managers

Delivery: (The focus on the execution of the work and the role of the team for supporting business/operational functions in terms of timeliness and quality)      

Objective 7: Ensure quality and standard of projects implementation, monitoring, and reporting    

• Masters preferably WASH project(s) and related stakes, Logical framework, and indicators (LFA). Has printed copies of all project's contractual documents and ensures that his team is aware of them.
• Develop technical guidelines for the implementation of WASH projects and have the projects validated by WaSH TA’s
• Plans the implementation of WASH project activities and quality monitoring plans.
• Supervises the implementation of project activities using AAH tools (APR, DIP, Budget follow up …)
• Contribute to and promote the monthly budget follow up and monthly budget forecast of the WASH projects
• Implements donor and AAH visibility on the WASH working sites of WASH projects
• Responsible for the implementation in the working sites of the safety and security measures/rules for both AAH teams (including daily hired) and the populations/public
• Implement transparency and accountability measures vis-à-vis the project beneficiaries, by making them participate throughout the project cycle. 
• Undertake feasibility study, design Water supply, and sanitation projects, prepare DIP, Bill of quantities (BOQ), specification, drawing and prepare tender document for contracted-out projects, and prepare procurement plan for items will procure at base and AA level
• Prepare and review technical specifications details (including materials specification, cost breakdown) and provide technical supports to the Base level WASH activities and the team at all levels.
• Ensure sanitation and hygiene approaches and interventions will bring behavioral change within the community (such as CLTSH, CHAST, WASH’em, PHAST, sanitation marketing, …etc)
• Prepare, compile and submit monthly APRs (activity progress report ) to the manager and WASH TAs
• Undertake reports (Donor report, government quarter report, monthly AAH report, contextual assessment report, KAP analysis report, terminal report,) and share to line manager and WASH TA.

Supervisory Responsibilities

•  Base WASH Team

Gender Equality Commitments  

• Foster an environment that supports the values of women and men, and equal access to information.
• Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status. 
• Value and respect all cultures.  

Fiscal Responsibility

 N/A

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread your own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions, Travel, and Environment

• The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
• Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high-security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases. 

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Engineering degree or equivalent in the field related to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, or training/courses specific to WASH in the field of study hydraulics engineering, water resources engineering, Civil engineering, hydrogeology, environmental health engineering, or related study with a minimum of 5 years related work experience in emergency and development WASH management experience

Required Skills & Competencies

• Applied skill in emergency and development water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH )projects management
• interpersonal skills (team management, communication, reporting, autonomy, organizational skill, staff development, creative and innovative thinking, leadership skill, strategic decision making and planning, a delegation of work, management of staff, team building…).
• Experience in working within international NOGs, consortium WAS projects management, government counterparts, and other partners at various levels – federal, region to woreda levels. This includes technical support, capacity building, and coordination.
• Excellent understanding of the development and humanitarian WASH issues in Ethiopia/Region at both field and policy levels.
• Demonstrable experience in WASH project management
• Good presentation, training, and facilitation skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to train and mentor staff
• Proven ability to manage a complex and demanding workload
• Good spoken and written English[TA1] 
• Local language proficiency is desirable
• Good computer and report writing skill ( familiar with engineering software’s tools such as AUTOCAD, Water CAD, EPANET, Arc- GIS, water and Microsoft others )

How to Apply

APPLICATION PROCEDURE 

If you are interested, please send your application composed of none returnable CV, Covering Letter with “WASH Program Manager” written in the subject line, and three references, applicants to the following addresses: 

 Through www.ethiojobs.net OR   Directly In-Person to Action Against Hunger Addis Ababa office after Washington DC square to Mayor Muriel Bowser Street, Wollega – Gimbi, Gambella, Waghimra – Sekota, Harergue - Harar, Borena – Yabello and Somali Gode offices, 

Deadline: Saturday, 14 November 2020 before 5:00 pm  

  NB: Only shortlisted applicants will be, communicated on and the selection process includes technical tests and an interview.