WASH Officer – Job Description

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, government entities and other relevant partners to ensure the delivery of WASH services to beneficiaries.
Ensure that the needs of women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities are adequately addressed in the planning and implementation of WASH activities.
Facilitate training and promotional activities aimed at improving hygiene and sanitation practices among local volunteers and other relevant community-level stakeholders.
Use community-based approaches, ensuring the active involvement of women, girls, boys, men, the 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 disabilities and other potentially marginalized groups.
Ensure community capacity building through multidisciplinary teams working with women, girls, men and boys to train and empower them on WASH-related aspects, including menstrual health, hygiene promotion, operation and maintenance, monitoring and reporting, and other relevant topics.
In collaboration with the Hygiene Promotion Officer and local implementing partners, identify or facilitate the establishment of community structures through which hygiene promotion activities can be implemented.
Design, implement and monitor hygiene promotion activities appropriate to specific community groups, including children, youth, women and men.
Develop and regularly update a detailed work plan to guide project implementation and ensure that it is used by the project and local implementing partner (LIP) teams to monitor progress towards completion of the WASH component.
Conduct WASH assessments.
Lead the construction of boreholes.
Lead the upgrading of communal wells that are prone to flooding.
Establish Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).

2. Quality Assurance (40%)

Ensure that field activities are implemented as described in the project/contract and in accordance with the organization’s activity plans, programming principles, 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 concluded in a way that promotes local capacities and sustainable operations.
Ensure that gender, protection, environmental and other important cross-cutting concerns are considered during the design, implementation and reporting of all WASH activities.
Ensure that WASH activities are implemented in accordance with approved donor and government agreements and regulations.
Liaise with other stakeholders to ensure an appropriate response in the WASH sector, in close consultation with immediate supervisors and local implementing partners.
Establish and maintain strong working relationships with government institutions.
Regularly visit beneficiaries to monitor progress and provide support in identifying solutions to existing problems.

3. Documentation, Knowledge Management and Learning (10%)

In collaboration with the MEAL Coordinator, design and manage a plan to monitor activities, outputs and impact, and adapt the programme as needed.
Collaborate with the project Monitoring and Evaluation team to develop monitoring tools for WASH activities.
Design and manage periodic rapid studies and evaluations to measure progress in WASH activities.
Compile reliable monthly and periodic narrative progress reports for internal analysis.
Attend WASH-related meetings at district and provincial levels.
Document and share lessons learned and success stories related to WASH to inform future programming.
Hold periodic meetings with the project team and key government partners to review the progress of WASH activities.
Ensure that collected project data and documents are properly stored and analysed.
Participate in, and where appropriate lead, thematic surveys, assessments and data collection for WASH-related research.
Consolidate and compile monthly, quarterly and annual activity reports, as well as reports on special events, highlighting achievements, lessons learned, constraints and recommendations, and submit them to the Project Manager within agreed deadlines.
Support the Project Manager in preparing all required narrative reports for internal and donor reporting, including quarterly human-interest stories from project participants and success stories.
Support the Project Manager in organizing and conducting regular project reviews and reflection sessions with implementing staff and communities, and analyse data trends towards the achievement of project objectives.

4. Feedback and Accountability Mechanisms (8%)

Sensitize project teams and beneficiaries on available feedback mechanisms and maintain open lines of communication to receive feedback and complaints.
Work closely with selected community committees and leaders to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during the implementation of activities.