Position: Water Engineer

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa with frequent travel, Ethiopia

Application Deadline: September, 05/2023

SNV is a mission-driven global development partner working in more than 20 countries across Africa and Asia. Building on 60 years of experience and grounded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we work on the core themes of gender equality and social inclusion, climate adaptation and mitigation, and strong institutions and effective governance. Together with our team of over 1,600 people, our mission is to strengthen capacities and catalyze partnerships that transform the agri-food, energy, and water systems, which enable sustainable and more equitable lives for all.

For more information on SNV's operations, visit our website: www.snv.org. 

Project background

The USAID funded TRANSFORM: WASH is a 7-year project that is under implementation through a consortium of PSI, SNV, and IRC WASH which is aimed at reducing preventable deaths and illness in Ethiopia due to diarrheal diseases, particularly among children under five.

Through the development and testing of scalable and replicable market-based models, the TRANSFORM WASH project is supporting the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) and the One WASH National Program (OWNP) to increase the use of improved WASH products and services among women and their families. This will be achieved through six interrelated project result areas: increased WASH governance and management capacity at the subnational level; increased demand for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; increased supply for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; increased knowledge base to bring WASH innovations to scale; improved access to water for consumption, hygiene, and sanitation use and Improved access to irrigation services for productive use.

The 18-month Costed Extension will focus on two more results: 1) Increased access to improved drinking water and 2) increased access to small-scale irrigation facilities for drought- and conflict-affected communities.

Purpose of the job

The job holder has the overall responsibility to provide technical assistance and expertise with reference to feasibility planning, design, construction, supervision, and monitoring of water supply activities including the Multi Village System. He/she will also be responsible for doing various tasks like design and bid document reviews, preparation of terms of reference, contract and payment document preparations, construction supervision, and monitoring of water supply constructions.

This post is based at the national office and is subject to very frequent field travels in different project target woredas.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Approve the feasibility studies and validate the recommended site selection from a technical perspective.

• Reviews detailed designs and advises PM on approvals/adjustments.

• Design guidance and templates for monitoring and quality assurance of infrastructure works

• Advise PM on adjustments needed in the work processes.

Knowledge Development

• Inform the Water and Irrigation knowledge agenda to the PM, in line with the direction set by the TRANSFORM: WASH project implementation modalities and donor requirement/USAID.

• Support the development of case studies and feed to the Project Manager to disseminate to a larger audience/stakeholder including GoE, USAID, consortium members, SNV global, and other NGOs working in the WASH sector.

• Capture lessons learned, stimulate internal and external knowledge exchange, and suggest ways how to translate this into practice to the Project Manager.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Project Manager/SNV.

Project and process development

• Identifies and proposes technical process improvements to the project team. Acts on improvement areas within the local internal organization and processes and gives feedback. Ensures lessons learned are applied in daily practice.

People/Partnership Management

• Seek opportunities for different kinds of partnerships for enhanced quality program implementation and leveraging with TRANSFORM: WASH at regional and national levels.

• Periodically collect information about what other organizations are best doing/working within the water sector more specifically USAID-funded projects in the kebele, woreda, zone, and region to gain institutional knowledge of the environment.

• Engage in the water sector platforms and networking at woreda, zone and region relevant to boosting the implementation of TRANSFORM: WASH representing SNV.

• Build smooth and strong partnerships in a holistic manner with relevant regional, zonal, and woreda government structures and development partners, USAID, and other consortium members and manage it for successful implementation of TRANSFORM: WASH project.

• Contribute to making the USAID TRANSFORM: WASH a flagship project for SNV and USAID in the respective woredas, zones and region/s.

• Ensure that respective monthly/quarterly/bi-annually/annual reports are meeting deadlines set by the project internally and externally by the donor/USAID and PSI, prime of consortium.

Positioning

• Identifies and analyses market opportunities and threats and ensures relevant colleagues are informed. Actively participates in strategic positioning meetings and acts as a knowledgeable face of the SNV organization to the client. Analyses understand and develop (local) networks with relevant stakeholders, and identify new clients.

Qualifications

Education and Skill Requirements:

• BSc. preferred MSc. in Water Resource Engineering, Hydraulics, civil and related fields with a minimum of 5 years of directly related experience.

• S/he is required to have good experience in WASH and small irrigation Engineering Construction Management and Communication Skills and have skills in Engineering software like AUTO CAD, water CAD, EPANET, etc

• Proven knowledge and experience in undertaking activities aimed at water facility construction, rehabilitation and upgrading project implementation.  

• Strong communication skill

• The ability to detect problems, recognize important information, and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.

How to apply:

• Register using the following link CLICK HERE