WASH Officer Afghanistan Kunduz

Caution: This role is national, only Internal candidates from Afghanistan will be considered.

For more details about the Job Description and NRC's Grade Structure please click on: Job Description and NRC Grade Structure.

Generic responsibilities:

• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
• Provide regular progress reports to WASH coordinator.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries are most in need of protection.
• Share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in activities of WASH project.
• Ensure capacity building of technical assistants and transfer key skills.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Ensure compliance with WASH strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.

Specific responsibilities:

• Have full understanding of all programs’ goals, objectives, implementation plan and expected result / output.
• Ensure all assessments, implementations and monitoring has been done in proper way.
• Manage all the phases of the WASH activities.
• Ensure appropriateness of all WASH technical document.
• Ensure technical aspects and high quality of projects.
• Leading WASH team in Kunduz province.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Participate in meetings and trainings when scheduled.
• Supervise the delivery, distributions, and implementation of (WASH) interventions in field.
• Provision of weekly and monthly plan for WASH team.
• Work closely with all WASH projects stockholders.
• Coordinate closely his or her activities with WASH Coordinator 
• Assist her/his direct supervisor/Coordinator on planning, organizing, facilitating and monitoring of projects. 
• Be willing to travel in districts and other provinces.
• Ensure all integrated projects has been properly coordinated and implemented with CCs. 
• Any others tasks assigned by supervisors/ WASH Coordinator.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and marked based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies.
• Provide an enabling environment for the implementation of cash-based interventions, including multi-purpose cash assistance, emergency cash responses.

Generic professional competencies: 

• Ability to engage and motivate staff in a challenging programme area.
• Excellent familiarity with cultural sensitivities, ethnic groups and security situation of Northern provinces especially Faryab province.
• Planning and delivering results.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or prior experience with NRC in WASH section. 
• At least 3 years of previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area preferably with UN, INGOs or Government Joint initiated projects.
• Excellent verbal communication, negotiation and problems solving skill.
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel and Power Point). 
• Fluency in English and local language Dari/Pashto

Behavioural competencies:

• Communicating with impact and respect
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Flexibility, creativity and good sense of humor
• Fair treatment, impartial & humanity – based thinker

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis.

 

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Geneva leads NRC’s representation with the IASC and UN agencies, and coordinates donor engagement with the UN and Swiss donors. NRC strives to assist and protect vulnerable and displaced people during crises, especially in situations of conflict. Established in 1946, NRC is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in around 31 countries with approximately 14’000 staff. NRC employs a rights based approach, challenging those with responsibility to uphold the rights of displaced people set out within national and International Laws. NRC endeavors to secure the acceptance of local stakeholders for activities and is committed to the principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and impartiality.

NRC seeks to engage with all relevant actors in order to promote the full respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people; secure and maintain access for humanitarian operations and promote the achievement of durable solutions. NRC Geneva, with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), are NRC’s primary presence in Geneva.