Afghanistan nationals: Environmental Health Manager

Requisition ID: req50989

Job Title: Environmental Health Manager (Afghan Nationals Only)

Sector: Health

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Herat, Afghanistan

Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Objective 1: Contribute to consultations on strategy and the positioning of the IRC-A Environmental Health sector.

• Ongoing, systematic, and thorough analysis of the humanitarian situation in respect to WASH and of the context of intervention in his/her field of activity.
• Internal dissemination of collected information and analysis to the Environmental Health Coordinator
• Participation in defining the strategy in his/her technical sector of intervention and of the sectoral strategy at national level.
• Implementing projects consistent with the IRC-A SAP policies of WASH and other IRC sectors, and key international documents in the sector (SPHERE Standards and WHO, etc.) and ensuring that teams have a clear understanding of these documents.

Objective 2: Identify needs and contribute to project formulation.

• Identifying humanitarian needs in the field of WASH and in his/her area of intervention including the submission of reports pertaining to such matters
• Including, where appropriate, target populations and local actors in the identification of needs and in the modalities of the response
• Participation in formulating WASH programs and contributing to writing of WASH proposals.
• Prepare project implementation, procurement, and Spending plans for the WASH projects.

Objective 3: Ensure the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of WASH projects.

• Implementation of the WASH program(s) in line with the logical framework of the program(s), the budget, and the logistical and administrative procedures of IRC-A.
• The quality of the programs established in conformity with the technical and project management standards of IRC-A
• Identifying the technical constraints associated with project implementation Proposing innovative technical solutions in response to such constraints.

Mission 4: Contribute to program quality and accountability processes and measure program impact.

• Supervise and manage all field site engineers for affective implementation of the WASH projects.
• Provide technical oversight to the development and implementation of assessments aimed to identify WASH needs and gaps.
• Provide Technical support to WASH staff at field level.
• Review the technical drawings, estimations and scope of work prepared by the Engineering team at Field level.
• Prepare and submit bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports of the WASH projects.
• Conduct field visits for supervision of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion activities at field level.
• Following up the procurement process with supply chain team at field and Kabul level
• Following up the staff related issues and tasks with HR department.
• Ensure that the team regularly update the WASH online trackers for WASH activities.
• Perform any other job relevant duties as required or asked to do by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Having bachelor’s degree in civil, Water resources, sanitation, environmental engineering; Environmental Science, or any other relevant field of study
• Having minimum 4 to 5 years relevant work experience in the Humanitarian sector
• Good understanding of project cycle management, Budget Management, and experience at using design software AutoCAD
• Willingness to travel to project implementation areas.
• Good knowledge of the dynamics of the social, culture dynamics of the intervention area and is willing to work in remote areas.
• Having the skills and ability to lead and work within a team.
• Good Written and spoken English and can Speak/understand/write local language