Role and responsibilities

The WASH WASH Project Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of the WASH projects within the Somali Region.

Generic responsibilities

1. Line management of WASH Project staff
2. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures;
3. Contribute to WASH strategies development, project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps;
4. Manage and implement a delegated portfolio of WASH projects (activities, budget and project documentation) as delegated from AMP in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality;
5. Provide regular progress reports to APM;
6. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and asses new and better ways to assist;
7. Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities;
8. Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills;
9. Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders;
10. Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.

Specific responsibilities

• To ensure minimum standards of technical quality in all activities and interventions, which are technically appropriate, realistic, in line with project specific objectives and on budget.
• Undertake contract management and tendering processes of the diverse contractors for WASH hardware and software activities.
• Plan, coordinate and implement NRC WASH activities (Public Health Engineering, Public Health Promotion, Construction) in the Somali Region.
• Ensure that assessment, program design and implementation consider the needs and vulnerabilities in Somali Region.
• Ensure that WASH program design is informed by and integrated with NRCs’ other priority sectors of ICLA, Livelihood and Food Security (LFS), Education and Protection.
• To ensure that sustainable systems are set in place for longer-term operation and maintenance of all water and sanitation infrastructure, including the provision of all necessary training.
• Prepare and oversee the implementation process to ensure timely delivery of programme activities (for example, monitoring against logframes, individual performance management workplans).
• Prepare timely financial and narrative reports on project activities in compliance with internal NRC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Ensure appropriate management and use of NRC resources at all times
• Manage project staff on a day-to-day level working with other technical departments, security, logistics, administration and senior management staff (depending on assignment).
• Ensure that NRC’s work in WASH programming is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government and represent organization at Interagency Coordination meetings.
• Contribute to learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives relating to WASH through case studies and documentation.

The purpose of WASH Technical Assistant Position is to contribute with specific technical competences to project implementation. This position will normally do entail implementing responsibility on the field. He/she will be responsible for assessment, beneficiary’s selection, conducting awareness sessions and distribution.

The following is a brief description of the role.

Generic responsibilities

These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall be short and essential. Details belong in the Work- and Professional Development Plan.

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific responsibilities

These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.

• Responsible for preparing of drawings and BoQ for WASH packages, assessment of Hygiene situation in project area, assessment, vulnerable beneficiary selection, project planning, implementation and monitoring for construction activities and quality maintenance of WASH  in target area
• Implementation and monitoring of constructions.
• Distribute the hygiene kits to the targeted and planned beneficiaries.
• To visit the target population to discuss the importance of using and constructing latrines, disposing of faces and hand washing and any other issues as determined by the project coordinator;
• Assessment on site. Village assessment; identify needs and resources, shelter type, data on returnees/ IDPs
• Beneficiary selection. Identify vulnerable families eligible for shelter assistance according to established selection criteria.
• Make sure that all program data are accurately collected and reported.
• Participate in field missions, WASH activities monitoring, and technical assistance to beneficiaries.
• Collection and analysis WASH data and report WASH officer.
• Maintain WASH beneficiaries’ documentation both on field and office levels and on its profiles.
• Distribution of hygiene kit
• Provision and completion of all field related forms, contracts and retain in profile.
• Beneficiaries and community workers training regarding latrine design.
• Produce reports on weekly, monthly and require base as well
• Conduct the meeting with community/or village elders, Malaks, local authority and other stakeholders at field level.
• Support Emergency Coordinator. Or PM to prioritize the emergency activities in different region such as field assessments, distribution, responses, PDM, risk monitoring and coordination.