WaSH Officer, Partner Coordination at Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), as a global humanitarian actor, provides life-saving assistance and protection to communities and people affected by crisis. NCA's expertise within the humanitarian field is access to safe drinking water and a safe sanitary and hygienic environment, and the promotion of improved hygiene practices. NCA is a member of the Action by Churches Together (ACT) Alliance, one of the world’s largest humanitarian alliances. NCA is primarily partner based.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: WaSH Officer, Partner Coordination

Location: Dikwa, Borno
Department / Sector: WaSH
Reporting to: WaSH Project manager WaSH Project manager
Start date: January 2, 2020

Job Purpose

• The WaSH Officer Partner coordination is responsible of the support and coaching of NCA partner for all WaSH related aspects of the program.
• S/he is the WaSH focal person between NCA and its implementing partner, provides updates to the WaSH Project Manager regarding partner’s WaSH activities, ensures timely and effective coordination with the partner, including identification of partner’s financial, logistics and security needs and sharing with his/her supervisor

Responsibilities
Coaching of implementation partners:

• Based on project documentation, develop and submit to the supervisor the monthly activity planning in coordination with NCA partner’s teams from the specific deep-field location;
• Develop and submit to the supervisor his/her monthly movement planning;
• Provide regular support to NCA’s implementing partner in terms of procurement and reception of all WaSH related goods, services and works;
• Monitor the security situation and report any security or safety-issues to the Security Department.

Support partners in team’s management:

• Provide continuous support to NCA’s Partner for the supervision of contractors, laborers and WaSH volunteers, the regular assessment of the quality of their work by ensuring their suitability with international standards and NCA technical prescriptions.
• Identify NCA’s Partner needs in capacity building, share with the supervisor and contribute to the development of appropriate training plan;
• Support NCA’s Partner for beneficiaries’ trainings (operators, technicians, WaSH volunteers and committees).
• Ensure NCA Partner’s WaSH team acts in line with NCA internal policies, more specifically CoC

Linkage facilitation between partner and NCA MEAL:

• Participate on relevant evaluations and needs assessments and build NCA’s Partner capacities in that direction;
• Understand and help NCA’s Partner to use the M&E Framework to collect relevant information on project implementation;
• Ensure regular data collection and transfer supporting documentation about implemented activities and results to the WaSH Manager;
• Support NCA’s Partner for the timely submission of quality progress reports according to reporting plan established;
• Maintain active communication between NCA and its partner.

Coordination and representation:

• Understand and ensure NCA’s Partner complies with NCA internal procedures (e.g. HR, procurement, finance and security);
• Respect the Security Protocols;
• Where applicable: regularly update the Security Department on the security situation in the respective deep-field location and contribute actively to NCA’s “duty of care”;
• Monitor gaps and humanitarian needs of targeted population and update the Supervisor regularly;
• If requested, contribute to preparation and designing of project proposal for different donors in line with the management’s strategy.
• Ensure NCA’s representation and visibility including NCA’s Partner involvement in relevant deep-field location coordination structures;
• Ensure NCA’s role as an active humanitarian actor

Requirements

• A Degree in Water, Sanitation or Environmental Health Engineering, Civil Engineering or other related discipline with a strong competencies in communities’ mobilization;
• At least 2 years of experience in similar position/related
• Professional experience in construction or rehabilitation and maintenance of WASH infrastructures in displaced populations
• Excellent program implementation and WaSH technical skills including hygiene promotion
• Good knowledge of the context
• Good communication, coordination and negotiation skills.
• Training/counterpart development skills.
• Proficient in basic computer software, including engineering design tools.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and key local languages in Dikwa

NCA’S Commitments
NCA is committed to following the following policies, standards and commitments and all staff are equally expected to conform to their requirements:

• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)
• Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief
• ACT Alliance Code of Conduct
• SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Relief
• NCA Nigeria Security Plan
• NCA Nigeria Staff Handbook

Application Closing Date
12:00noon 14th November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Ensure to attach updated CV, Cover Letter in a single file
• Due to the Emergency situation in the Northeast Nigeria, applications will be processed on a rolling basis and Position could be filled before the expiration of advert.
• Only candidates who meet the selection criteria will be contacted for further steps of the recruitment.
• This position is open to Nigerian nationals only.