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Job Description
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC has mainly focused on Somalis and South sudanes who are displaced by conflict. The regional Office is based in Nairobi, Kenya and we have other offices and operations in Somalia, Puntland, Somaliland, Kenya and Yemen.
In Ethiopia, DRC, has signed an MOU with UNHCR and The Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) for the refugee projects and BOFED for the regional host projects,to support Refugees and host communities in Ethiopia. A programme is just being established in the Somali region of Ethiopia and Gambela region, promoting an initiative around the Development Assistance for Refugees framework, (DAR), in Refugee Affected Areas this includes addressing issues in the hosting area around the refugee camps as well as addressing durable solutions for the refugee population.
Purpose
- To carry out the day to day WASH activities in Jijiga,Gursum and Babile woreda
- To manage and facilitate DRC Jijiga WASH interventions in Somali Region and the outreach progress areas included in this project.
- Empower the communities to be able to manage their issues by themselves and have the ability to sustain WASH projects
- Facilitate relations between DRC and the local communities.
- Represent DRC in all WASH cluster meetings and other relevant discussion at their capacity with a close coordination to WASH engineer and are Manager in Jijiga
Key Responsibilities:
Wash specific
- Responsible for all WASH interventions for DRC in Jijiga
- Ensure that DRC’s objectives are disseminated and raise awareness of DRCs approach ensuring all implementation follows DRC policies and procedures
- Provide technical advice, backstopping and training on CLTS and H methodology.
- Facilitate communities, community based organisations and community leaders in identifying target groups for DRC WASH activities in and around target woreda.
- Help empower the communities to enable them to manage their issues by themselves and be able to sustain projects
- Ensure equal participation by all segments of the community, taking into consideration issues regarding gender, age, disability and clan affiliation
- Regularly monitor and evaluate the projects performance and provide timely inputs, feedback and impact of the DRC WASH interventions
- Play an important role in realization of project outputs and outcomes through timely implementation of activities in a well planned, organized and coordinated manner
- Develop and implement surveys and needs assessment in targeted woerada
Programme management
- Together with WASH Engineer, responsible for preparing and implementing of annual and quarterly work plans
- Organize and implement training for communities as per identified needs.
- Report monitoring details back to DRC management
- Regular monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to as per agreed format.
Supervisory Responsibility
- Monitor team performance and activity
- Collate monthly reports from other team members and send the reports to the WASH Engineer
- Participate meetings every Monday ensuring that appropriate brainstorming, problem solving and project planning techniques are used
- Manage team conflicts to ensure that problems are resolved constructively with direction from the Line manager.
- Facilitate ongoing self evaluation of the teams effectiveness
- Ensure that plans are entered into the standardized format and are updated on a monthly basis
Representation and coordination
- To ensure that DRC maintains excellent and productive relations with all key stakeholders, especially beneficiaries, local authorities, partners and donors. Tasks include: a) representing DRC at relevant forums/ meetings, b) ensuring other staff are appropriately representing DRC at relevant forums/ meetings, c) maintaining agreed profile of DRC at Woreda/project level, d) conducting regular stakeholder analyses to ensure that DRC has good understanding of dynamics/ relationships, e) ensuring that all staff maintain beneficiaries and communities at the centre of DRC’s stakeholder list, f) engaging in coordination processes amongst key stakeholders.
Personal Specifications
Essential:
- Degree/Diploma /Certificate of public health or related field
- Minimum three years experience of working in community development, and/or community mobilization.
- Experience of implementing WASH in communities
- Experience of working with Non-Governmental organisations
- Good in spoken and written English especially reporting
- Good communication skills and ability to conduct training
- Understanding of gender, protection and human rights
- Computer skills
- Good organizational and people management skills
- Ability to represent the organization and influence people
Preferable:
- Somali language skills a definite advantage
- Engineering skills or knowledge
- Experience of construction management.
Closing date: Feb 05, 2016
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How to Apply
Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter in English “WASH Officer” only through vacancies@drcethiopia.org.
The applicant’s cover letter should state the reasons for applying for this particular position and not be generic. The cover letter should also include the applicant’s salary requirements. Please do not send additional materials other than a CV and cover letter, they will not be reviewed.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis before the deadline, and interviews will be held as suitable candidates present themselves. Deadline for applications is 5 February 2015.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. DRC considers all applicants based on merit. It is DRC policy to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all personnel actions, without regard to gender, race, national, clan or tribal origin, religion, age, sex, origin or ancestry, marital status, social status, sexual orientation, or status as a qualified disabled individual.
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