Vaga

Vaga – WASH Officer

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Company Vision

We seek a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.

Company Mission

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice.

Job Description

  1. Program design and implementation
  • In cooperation with other WASH staff, design, and plan activities to achieve all project goals related to WASH;
  • Coordinate WASH activities with local implementing partners, together with governmental entities and possibly other partners to ensure delivery of WASH services to beneficiaries;
  • Ensure that the needs of women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities are adequately addressed in planning and implementing WASH activities;
  • Facilitate trainings and promotional activities towards improving the hygiene and sanitation practices of the local volunteers and other relevant stakeholders at community level;
  • Use community-based approaches, including clear involvement of women, girls, boys, men, elderly, and persons with disabilities in the design of WASH-related infrastructure, products, and services;
  • Develop or ensure the development of information and communication materials through community consultations, collaborating with women, girls, boys, men, the elderly, persons with disability, and other potentially marginalized groups;
  • Ensure community capacity building is carried out through multi-discipline teams working with women, girls, men, and boys of the community to train and empower them on WASH-related aspects including menstrual health, hygiene promotion, operation and maintenance, monitoring and reporting, and other topics;
  • In collaboration with Hygiene promotion Officer and Local implementing partners, identify or facilitate community structures through which the hygiene promotion activities can be implemented;
  • Design, implementation, and monitoring of hygiene promotion activities that are appropriate to specific sectors of the community (children, youths, women, and men);
  • Develop and regularly update a detailed work plan guiding the project implementation and ensure this is used by the project/LIP team to monitor the progress toward completion of the WASH component of the project;
  • Conduct WASH assessment;
  • Lead the process of Construction of boreholes,
  • Lead the upgrading of communal wells that are prone to flooding;
  • Community-Led Total Sanitation establishment.

Job Responsibility # 2:Quality assurance (40%)

  • Ensure that field activities are implemented as described in the project/contract and following the organization’s specific activity plans and programming principles and are in line with relevant standards, code of conduct and humanitarian principles;
  • In coordination with the MEAL Coordinator, monitor and evaluate WASH activities against project indicators to ensure that the project is evidence-based and implemented in a comprehensive, client-focused, and cost-effective manner;
  • Ensure that WASH activities and resources are implemented and handed over or ended in a way that promotes local capacities and sustainable operations;
  • Ensure that gender, protection, environment, and other important crosscutting concerns are taken into account during the design, implementation, and reporting of all WASH activities;
  • Ensure that the WASH activities are implemented according to the approved donor and government agreements/regulations;
  • Liaise with other stakeholders for appropriate response in the WASH sector in close consultation with the immediate supervisors and LIP;
  • Create access and maintain solid working relationships with government institutions.
  • Regularly visit beneficiaries to monitor progress, providing support in identifying solutions to existing problems.

Job Responsibility # 2:Documentation and Knowledge Management / Learning (10%)

  • In collaboration with the MEAL Coordinator, design and manage a plan to monitor activities, outputs, and impact and adapt the program as needed;
  • Collaborate with the project M&E team to develop monitoring tools for WASH activities;
  • Design and manage periodic light studies/evaluations to measure the progress of the WASH activities;
  • Compile monthly and periodical reliable narrative progress reports for internal analysis;
  • Attend WASH-related meetings at district and provincial levels;
  • Document and share lessons learned and success stories concerning WASH to inform future programming;
  • Hold periodic meetings to review the progress of WASH activities, with the project team and key government partners;
  • Ensure that collected project data and documents are properly stored and analysed;
  • Participate and perhaps take the lead in thematic surveys, assessment, and data collection for WASH-related research;
  • Consolidate/compile monthly, quarterly, and annual activity reports and special events showing achievements, lessons, constraints, and recommendations and submit to the Project Manager on agreed time.
  • Support the project manager to write all required narrative reports for internal and donor reporting, including human interest stories from project participants every quarter and success stories;
  • Supports Project Manager in organizing and conducting regular project reviews and reflections with implementing staff and communities and analyzes data trends towards objectives achievement

Job Responsibility # 3: Feedback and Accountability Mechanisms (8%)

  • Sensitize project team and beneficiaries on available feedback mechanisms and maintain an open line of communication with them to obtain feedback and complaints;
  • Work closely with selected community committees/leaders to ensure accountability, fairness, and transparency during the implementation of activities;

Job Responsibility # 5: Any other duties as assigned (2%)

  • Mobilize and raise awareness about the organization, program objectives, and activities to local authorities and the population.

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