Hello Hello! Alight is recruiting a Roving WASH Officer to be based in Addis Ababa with frequent travel to field offices. You’re interested in joining us? Welcome, we’re happy you’re here!

If you join us, you will find…

A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.

A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.

Alight (formerly American Refugee Committee) is an international non-profit organization with its headquarters located in the United States. Alight has provided humanitarian assistance to millions of beneficiaries in 29 countries over the past 40 years, currently reaching over 10 million refugees, IDPs, and disaster-affected communities in 17 countries around the world, helping people regain control of their lives after conflict and natural disasters. Alight maintains full-fledged humanitarian programs in Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar. Alight is currently in the process of responding to humanitarian situation in Ethiopia.

Alight focuses on lifesaving humanitarian interventions as well as recovery and resilience building programs designed to create lasting positive change in the lives of vulnerable people. Alight works closely with displaced persons, returnees, refugees and communities affected by natural and man-made disasters, providing a range of integrated assistance including primary and curative health care, water and sanitation, protection services, restoration of strategic health and water infrastructure, dignified housing for returning refugees, and sustainable job creation. Alight has also built strong relationships with development partners, agencies, as well as federal and local governments in order to approach challenges in an inclusive and holistic manner and come up with innovative solutions that best fits the local context.

PROGRAM BACKGROUND:

Alight is intervening in Ethiopia since 2021, through an Emergency Rapid Response project following the conflict in Tigray and expanding to the neighboring conflict affected regions of Amhara and Afar. Through the funding obtained from USAID/BHA, alight is implementing an Integrated Lifesaving Emergency Response (ILER) targeting IDPs and their host communities. Alight Ethiopia is expanding WASH services to the target locations of Afar, Amhara and Tigray region.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

Technically reporting to the WASH manager, the Roving WASH officer oversee the implementation of WASH project in Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions.

The Roving WASH Officer will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality WASH interventions (including infrastructure) across multiple grants, engaging actively with the WASH Cluster, local governments, and all other WASH actors. Additionally, this position will support the development of staff and community capacity building in water supply and sanitation operation, maintenance, and management, participate in the mobilization of WASH resources and ensure implementation is done in close collaboration with program staff, the local community, the Local authority, and other relevant agencies. 

The Roving WASH Officer will support the drafting of quality reports on a timely basis. He/She will be responsible for the implementation of hygiene promotion, sanitation and water component and ensure program quality, completion of activities within allocated funding and project period, and identifying new needs for program expansion and improvement.

The Roving WASH officer is expected to spend 75% of his/her time supporting the field-based teams for a smooth implementation of WASH program deliverables.

MAJOR/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise and manage hygiene and sanitation officers based on field offices and support WASH program implementation.

• Ensure the tracking, monitoring, and quality reporting of all WASH and infrastructure interventions.

• Complete budget pipeline planning, monitoring, and monthly follow-up in coordination with the WASH Program manager.

• Supervise and monitor the implementation of WASH activities, ensuring that all activities are compliant with the grant and ALIGHT requirements.  Prepare subsequent reports.

• Contribute to the design of new WASH projects based on sectoral and general knowledge.

• Contributing to contingency planning for possible WASH emergency response if required.

• To undertake community mobilization and organizational needs assessments and research, ensuring that Hygiene promotion activity is meeting the needs of the public, service users, service providers, and the WASH sector Agenda.

• Prepare procurement plans based on the project cycle for WASH and infrastructure work; ensure all PRFs are accurately prepared and submitted on time.

• Ensure all interventions adhere to ALIGHT Gender Policy, Do No Harm principles, and beneficiary accountability standards.

• Support the development of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and end-of-project reports on WASH components of the project and ensure that the reports are prepared on time and in accordance with donors and ALIGHT requirements under the guidance of the WASH Manager.

• Provide regular reports on water supply and sanitation activities and program progress against work plan and program activities including donor reports according to donor requirements.

• Work with line departments to develop needs assessment tools and strategies, and train and supervise staff through field surveys and assessments.

• Work with line departments to measure outcome indicators and outputs to determine the success of interventions.

• Work with the WASH Program Manager to identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, and other stakeholders.

• Actively participate in monthly management and team meetings.

• Represent Alight in attending health and/or WASH Cluster regional coordination meetings and national WASH cluster meetings, if assigned.

• Identifying and addressing staff capacity-building opportunities.

• When required support HR in Hygiene promoters, Community volunteers, and sanitation technicians, this includes writing job descriptions, interviews, etc.

• Any additional tasks as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Job Requirements

• BSc Degree in water engineering or equivalent disciplines from recognized University with a minimum of four-year relevant work experience on WASH with I/NGO in emergency and IDP and/or refugee settings.

• 5 years' experience for bachelor’s degree holders and 4 years’ experience for postgraduates.

• Emergency experience is essential, ideally with an NGO, with a proven application at the field level.

• Good analytical skills demonstrated through proven experience in working in relevant project monitoring systems, assessment design, and program execution processes.

• Considerable experience in training, mentoring, and coaching skills building and ability to carry out training needs analysis and develop capacity-building training for community-based hygiene promoters based on this analysis.

• Possess well-developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in a demanding situation.

• Good Knowledge of finance and budget management.

KEY BEHAVIORS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work as part of a team as well as to work autonomously when required.

• Very good at computers- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, and e-mail).

• Fluency in English & Amharic (Oral and Written); and other local language is a plus advantage for the position.

• Supervisory/basic managerial skills.

• Technical and report writing skills.

PLUS

• NGO experience

• Gender-sensitive

• Understanding of and commitment to the “Humanitarian principles”

• Understanding of and commitment to Alight code of conduct and organizational goals

How to Apply

Submit your motivation/cover letter and updated Resume (not more than 3 pages) via email: etjobs@wearealight.org

Note

• Please, indicate the position/title applied for in your cover letter and/or subject of the email.

• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

• Only qualified applicants will be short listed and contacted.

• Open to Ethiopian nationals ONLY.

“FEMALES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY”