Internal/ External Vacancy Announcement

 The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant position the details of which are mentioned bellow.

 About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

 The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131  District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee  and 5871 Kebele Red Cross  committees.

Job Summary

The senior WASH officer responsible for providing technical support to the implementation of the WASH-component under the ER2R project and other projects assigned by the Health and WASH Manager. The project is a multisectoral project (WASH, Health). The WASH activities are to be implemented in Benishangul-Gumuz, Amhara, Oromia and  Tigray regions.

In general, the senior WASH officer is responsible for providing technical support to the ERCS Project Coordinators involved in the ER2R project (on headquarters and branch level) and  other ERCS projects. This includes WASH hardware and software activities, namely rehabilitation of water supply and sanitation systems, hygiene promotion activities and providing technical trainings to volunteers and community members.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS 

Project Design and implementation

•  Prepare and design multi-sectoral rapid needs assessments in collaboration with other humanitarian organizations.

• Prepare detail designs for new planned water, sanitation infrastructure civil works with consultation of line managers, Partner National Society, budget holder department and implementing branch.

• Enthusiastically involve in any multidisciplinary study team that require respective expertise.

• Undertake technical and financial planning and liaise with the relevant budget holder departments

• Responsible to prepare bid and contractual documents based on the construction guideline available in the organization

• Design and roll-out health promotion campaigns at community level for both host communities and Internally Displaced People

• Promote and ensure community participation and initiatives through all possible methodologies in all project phases

• Manage all Water and Infrastructure project resources based on the system laid by the organization.

• Direct and support ERCS on major engineering works

• Train and coach branch (WASH outreach workers) to excel on their work based the planned activities.

• Manage the hardware parts of the project based on the frameworks set by the organization.

• Facilitate and perform handing over of completed project to direct beneficiaries, local authorities or other humanitarian organizations through respected line offices.

• Ensure that the planned activities are performed with in the given time frame and budget allocated while respecting the quality aspects.

• Organize the mobilization of the required amount of construction materials and human resources prior to the project execution.

• Responsible to support, assist and follow up on contract procedures and processes on construction based on a given detail plans or specifications

• Responsible to check payment certificate/documents of contractual works as per the terms of agreement engaged with to be ready for agreement.

Financial Management

• Under the guidance of PNS and budget holder department:

• Participate on the preparation of detailed project budgets and budget revisions

• Responsible for ensuring proper, efficient and timely utilization of allocated program/project budget, including purchasing of quality construction materials;

• Responsible to control the budget allocated to the sector and ensure that activities are implemented according to quality required and agreed plans.

Reporting

• Prepare periodical progress reports (monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually)

• Responsible to keep and maintain records, data and documents related to the construction related works

• Put an effort to document changes made due to the construction interventions

Networking

• Create appropriate linkage; working procedures and information sharing with different PNS and ERCS’s program staff/movement partners’ and external stakeholders (WASH cluster, NGO and Government Sectorial ministries, Bureaus’);

• Create funding opportunities for new emergency WASH projects;

• Integrate the WASH project with other sectors of the program staff and stakeholders.

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Undertake Monitoring and Evaluation of WASH projects based on the M&E formats developed by ERCS or PNS.

• Facilitate and participate agreed monitoring sessions during the implementation of WASH projects

• Document learning from implemented projects and share for others across the organization

• Conduct and document annual learning reviews;

Mainstreaming

• Design and create appropriate methods/ways and implement to mainstream all cross cutting issues like protection, community engagement and accountability, gender, inequality, HIV/AIDS, DRR and climate change in line with ERCS or PNS guidelines.

• Ensure that all cross cutting issues like protection, community engagement and accountability, gender, inequality, HIV/AIDS, DRR and climate change are mainstreamed in the implementation of WASH activities

Work Unit:-   ERCS-Disaster Risk Management (DRM) department

Reporting to : - Health and WASH division manager

Terms of employment:-Contract for one year

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• MSc/BSc in field of civil, hydraulics, irrigation, water resources or any water related engineering disciplines, or any other relevant fields of study.

• 6/8  years of experience at increasing capacities in WASH sector;

• Three years in NGO setting related to rural water supply and sanitation

• and previously Red Cross experience is an asset.

Other Skills & Competencies

• Field experience in managing international humanitarian operations in WASH.

• Practical experiences in planning and managing community and institutional infrastructure and WASH interventions in development and emergency contexts

• Experience in designing and constructing community level water, sanitation and public infrastructure facilities. Experience on public health and community engagement and accountability is an asset.

• Experience working on gender sensitive and disability inclusive designs

• Ability to work well within a team and take responsibility to deliver results.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

• Ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and difficult physical conditions in an area of potential insecurity.

• Capacity to work & build strong relationships with Partners, local government offices;

• Demonstrated experience supervising construction projects, preparing supervision reports

• Relevant skill in computer application and graphic and engineering software packages (MS Offices, WaterCAD and Auto CAD…).

• Self-driven and result oriented

• Fluency in English and Amharic, both verbal and written

• Commitment to Red Cross values.

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form With the indicated link CLICK HERE before the closing date of this announcement on July 6, 2023.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply !