NRC WASH Specialist Jobs in Nigeria

NRC WASH Specialist Jobs in Nigeria

Context

The Norwegian Refugee Council has been working in north-eastern Nigeria since June 2015, implementing Livelihoods and Food Security, Shelter, WASH, Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Camp Management, and Education activities to benefit internally displaced, returnee, and host communities.

NRC’s WASH Core Competency is currently implementing projects focused on sustainable access to clean water, behavioral change, environmental footprint, and enhancing a community of practice.

The WASH Specialist will provide technical oversight and strategic direction to Country and Area Offices to further the development of the WASH Core Competency (CC). The Specialist will assure the quality implementation for all projects’ WASH activities, collaboratively develop a country strategy, capacity-build staff through mentoring and training to increase the technical capacity of the staff, and develop a donor strategy to further grow the program.

Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for technical innovative development and quality of CC in the country, holistic programming (with other CCs) and ensuring harmonisation and consistency across CC projects in line with NRC Programme Policy

Lead the process of establishing proposals, budgets, modifications, project reviews, and reporting, ensure high technical quality and provide strategic guidance on programme design

Take the lead on establishing and following quality project deliverables to ensure high technical outputs including but not limited to review of technical and safety assessments, bill of quantities, participation in tender processes and review of output

Provide strategic leadership on the development of programming that includes self-reliance and durable solutions where appropriate

Support programmatic M&E and indicator tracking, WASH data and means of verification reviews, and follow-up in conjunction with project teams and the M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) department

Ensure budgets, work plans and spending plans in line with donor budgets are developed and maintained by supporting Project Coordinators, Managers and Area Managers

Develop and lead on conducting technical and safety assessments, needs assessments (in collaboration with Area Program teams, Protection team and M&E team), baseline, mid-and end-evaluations

Represent NRC within the WASH sector, to relevant donors, government ministries and in relevant humanitarian coordination meetings in the country

Actively promote and operationalize synergies between WASH and other NRC programmes to move toward integrated programming focussing on

Shelter, Livelihood and ICLA (Information Counselling and Legal Assistance)

Provide support and input to the recruitment processes for all WASH staff in the country
Accountable for organisational learning from programme implementation, for sharing of best practices and for capacity building

Keep an overview of the activity implementation and undertake field support visits post initiation of projects to evaluate needs: support areas and teams including raising red flags where needed

Develop and lead quality improvement plans, using quality benchmarks and Complaint and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) outcomes, and ensure continuous improvement.

Professional Competencies

Minimum 4 years of experience within a humanitarian/recovery context

Experience working in complex and volatile contexts

Minimum 2 years of WASH expertise (as Specialist/Technical Adviser or Project Manager)

Documented results from previous experience related to the position’s responsibilities

Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Knowledge of the Lake Chad Basin region and north-eastern Nigeria context specifically

Advanced computer skills, especially in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Experience in team capacity building

Experience with youth/adolescent programming, particularly vocational training is desired

Experience with alternative WASH in a humanitarian context is an asset

Understanding of SPHERE and Interagency Network for Education in Emergency (INEE) Minimum Standards is required

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; NRC WASH Specialist Jobs in Nigeria

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