WASH Sector Manager at Action Against Hunger Nigeria

Action Against Hunger is the world’s hunger specialist and leader in a global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. For 40 years, the humanitarian and development organization has been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger across nearly 50 countries. It served more than 21 million people in 2018 alone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: WASH Sector Manager

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Full Time
Starting date: As Soon As Possible
Direct Line Manager: Senior Project Manager

Objective 1

• Support the  Senior Project manager for smooth implementation of COVID-19 response project

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Support the project manager in the implementation of WASH project activities, ensuring that services are delivered on time, on budget, and in compliance with donor regulations.
• Provide technical support, in all areas of WASH programming, ensuring that implementation methods are consistent with acknowledged good practice and achieve sustainable results.
• Contribute so that the WASH project designs are implemented in ways responsive to communities, partners, and in line with Donor principles, values, and strategic plan and compliant with AAH procedures and quality standards.
• Support the project manager in developing a Project implementation plan including procurement and distribution schedules of project inputs in line with project logistics/supply chain capacity.
• In coordination with the Rapid Response Mechanism expert or WASH project manager, ensure that WASH staff have work-plans in place and follow up with team members regularly to ensure that activities are on track.
• Responsible for the implementation in the working sites of the safety measures/rules for both AAH teams (including daily hired) and the populations/public.
• Ensure proper and effective use of program resources, ensuring that all resources/assets in the project are managed in line with SC and Donor policy

Objective 2

• Support the Senior project manager to the identification & formulation of WASH projects, and AAH Nigeria mission strategy

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Participate in WASH technical assessments as directed by the WASH project manager.
• Contribute to continuous situation monitoring  of the humanitarian situation and report to WASH project manager
• Contribute to the design of new proposals for emergency response, medium- and long-term programming.
• Contribute to the definition of the WASH strategy for AAH, and implement projects taking into account the key internal and external documents.

Objective 3

• Support the project manager in developing proper Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting of projects.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Participate and support the project manager actively in developing M&E and indicator tracking plans for all grants, developing additional M&E tools as necessary to monitor project progress, with support of the M&E team.
• Contribute to appropriate, timely, and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
• Contribute to project monitoring/learning feeds into alterations into the project design.
• Work with the M&E team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.
• Monitor program progress against both programmatic and budgetary targets, making adjustments to project design as necessary.
• Support the project manager to establish appropriate checks and controls to ensure the quality of WASH construction works.
• Prepare timely and high-quality project reports on project activities in compliance with internal AAH requirements.

Objective 4

• Staffs management and capacity building

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Take part actively in the recruitment and the training of WASH staff, in cooperation with the HR department.
• Ensure that staff working under your supervision understand and are able to perform their role.
• Identify (and where possible, provide) learning and training opportunities for WASH staff, and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
• Establish performance management of staffs under your supervision through effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measurable objectives, on-going feedback, periodic reviews, and fair and unbiased evaluations

Objective 5

• Coordination with Internal and External stakeholders

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the WASH Coordination meeting held at LGA and state levels as directed by your line manager.
• Develop WASH contacts with other NGOs, agencies, and technical bodies as directed by the project manager.
• Support the project manager to assess the feasibility of AAH technical support and guidance to partner agencies and relevant governmental bodies, specifically the RUWASA.
• Support the project manager in the capacity building of AAH WASH partners in the area of intervention.
• Participate in emergency WASH interventions in Maiduguri as required

Objective 6

• Contribute to the mission’s capitalization and to AAH communication

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the compilation on a soft drive of all essential documents related to his/her project (s) and transmits them to the WASH PM and WASH Coordinator who will ensure that technically validated documents are further disseminated.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of capitalization/technical research topics.
• Contribute to the setup of the AAH WASH database in the base.
• Write and submit a handover report when his/ her employment is overusing the AAH format.

Position Requirements
Qualification:

• Masters / B.Sc Degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resource Engineering, Geology, Environmental Health Science, Public Health or any related filed in areas of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene..
• Additional training courses specific to WASH in  humanitarian contexts and/or Program Cycle Management certifications strongly preferred.

Skills and Experience
Essential:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience in areas of WASH intervention or emergency response /supervisory capacity in a similar context
• Strong computer literacy, organizational and planning skills, report writing, budget oversight
• Commitment to upholding AAH’s values, excellent interpersonal, and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in the INGO/NGO and humanitarian context.
• Experience managing a team of staff.

Minimum Basic Salary
NGN 308,589 per Month.

Application Closing Date
29th July, 2020.