Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:

• Support the Senior Program officer in facilitating the process of establishing smooth and fulfilling work relationships with host government offices and their implementing arms.
• Assess the community’s demand for design initiatives (water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities) and minor rehabilitation works for the selected health facilities.
• Ensure that the project meets the demands of the recipients and offer quality assurance for rehabilitation and IPC at the selected health facilities.
• Preparation of Design (Water CAD, Water Gems), drawings (AutoCAD), BOQ/Cost Estimates, and Tender papers for all design infrastructures.
• Provides technical training for community handlers in areas such as water quality testing and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain solid connections and channels of communication with relevant local authorities and communities prior to intervention, outlining the function of FHI 360 Community Nutrition and working with them during the project.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders on the ground to ensure that the operations are carried out smoothly, efficiently, and effectively.
• Ensure a timely startup of planned rehabilitation works including IPC and WASH rehabilitation related undertakings.
• Assist the program officer in implementation and oversight of all hardware and any software undertakings in the works.
• Represent FHI 360 Community Nutrition at various levels of WASH platforms including the WASH Cluster and its technical working groups at the woredas levels where necessary.
• Provide technical guidance in the adoption of high standard construction quality works, as well as ensuring that all health, nutrition, and protection sectors, as well as WASH sector cross cutting issues, are integrated during day-to-day field level exercises.
• Under his/her duty areas of assignment, provide on-the-job and field level mentorship to, HDAs/WDAs, contractors, skilled and unskilled daily laborers, IDPs, and partners.
• Lead the rapid and detail assessment of the minor rehabilitation and WASH works to be carried out in the selected health facilities.
• Ensure high-quality activity implementation timeline, detail procurement as well as spending plans prepared in the first month of the project period with the good engagement of the other stakeholders.
• Whenever required, the position holder well take the leadership in conducting rapid as well as detail assessments and prepare intervention activities, beneficiaries as well as sectors integration matrixes and follow their implementations with the field team on regular basis.
• Oversee all related minor rehabilitation undertakings in health facilities.
• Identify infrastructural and IPC problems within health facility settings and come up with technical and financial propositions of how they can be fixed.
• Draft design bills of quantities, specifications, and cost estimates for proposed public health promotion and Environmental health interventions including for hazardous waste managements in health facilities.
• Drafts the TORs, MEMOs, Attendance, and payment documents for all activities under the PHP component of the project in the first two months of the project and ensure the PR and payments are done timely.
• Work closely with other FHI 360 Community Nutrition units – including health and nutrition, logistics and finance, HR, and administration -to ensure programmatic integrations, effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance.
• Minimum Requirements:

  Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent – Civil Society, Civil Engineering, Water resource Engineering, Water supply and Sanitation engineering, and any other related technical field from a reputable institution of learning, Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, the Environment, Gender, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or a Related Field.

  Experience:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 2+ years of relevant experience supporting projects and/or a technical practice area.
    Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
    Prior experience using Microsoft Office Suite preferred.

  Language:

  • Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English, fluent in host country language as appropriate.