WASH Technical Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger.

Action Against Hunger is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: WASH Technical Officer

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Job Description:
Under the direction of the WASH Deputy Program Manager, the WASH technical Officer will be primarily responsible for technically overseeing all activities related to water supply (boreholes, hand dug wells, and solar pumped networks) and latrine construction & rehabilitation.

Summary of Key Objectives:

• Technical oversight in the development of water supply and sanitation infrastructure by monitoring technical performance and providing project designs, technical specifications and Bill of Quantities (BOQs).
• To support supervision and monitoring of WASH (water supply and sanitation infrastructure) activities e.g. water points and latrines rehabilitation/construction, water quality assessments, establishment of Water User Committees etc.
• To report WASH technical activities and support the WASH Deputy Program Manager in maintaining regular contact with local stakeholders (including government/local authorities)

Qualifications & Essential Skills:

• Degree/ Higher National Diploma in Geological, hydraulic, hydrology, Civil, Building Engineering, or equivalent with hands on experience in developing and adopting WASH technologies and designs
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy
• Activity planning, good organizational ability, professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Minimum of three years relevant work experience
• Experience of assessing, reviewing and monitoring technical projects.
• Competence in building, sanitary and hydraulic infrastructures
• Knowledge and experience using design and drawing applications.
• Ability to critically review technical options
• Ability to creatively adopt models to suit local context
• Accuracy and keen attention to details, in order to produce high quality documents and maintain good records.
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in Hausa and English
• Good knowledge of the intervention area and local economy

Preferred

• Previous ACF experience
• Experience implementing WASH programming on behalf of donors (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA)
• Experience in construction and rehabilitation of boreholes, hand dug wells, and solar pumped networks with overhead reservoir and distribution taps
• Experience in construction and rehabilitation of VIP latrines
• Experience in water quality analysis

Application Closing Date
Sunday, 21st September 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV together with their Cover Letter as an email attachment to the following email address to: [email protected] Applicants should indicate in the subject title of their forwarding mail, the title of the position they are applying for.

Note: Please do not attach your certificates to the application email. Any application received after Sunday, 21st September 2014 will not be considered.