Local recruitment: WASH Officer (Engineer)

World Vision (WV)

Afar, Ethiopia 🇪🇹

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Place of Work: Semera, Afar Region

Major Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead and participate in feasibility studies, oversee the preparation and review of design and bid documents, review and prepare payments for all WASH construction and rehabilitation projects, conduct WASH software activities, and manage the distribution of non-food items (NFIs).
  • Regular monitoring and supervision of ongoing construction activities to ensure that all the activities are executing as per design, specifications and work schedule. Provide technical support to other sectors like protection, nutrition, health livelihood professionals during the implementation of the integrated multi sectoral emergency project.
  • Ensure the integration of cross cutting themes related to gender, protection, environment and other crosscutting issues to the implementation of WASH activities, and ensure that activities consider the needs of specific groups and individuals, especially children, elderly and disabled people. All the interventions adhere to Do No Harm principles and with participation from all relevant stakeholders, including disaster affected children and their families.
  • Prepare, organize, track and share timely & regular reports on WASH intervention including success/case stories and participate regularly on zonal and woreda level coordination. Ensure the program delivery of baseline and end line evaluation and post distribution monitoring (PDM) and reporting carried out efficiently, rigorously and within the timeframe in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures     

Required Educational Qualification and Work Experience:

  •  2 Year experience for MSc and 4 years for BSc on relevant project/program experience of WASH in an international NGO or similar organization, preferably emergency WASH operations.
  • MSC/BSc in Hydraulic Engineering, Water supply Engineering, Water resource Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and related
  • Excellent English communication skill, Basic computer software application including WaterCAD, AutoCAD, EPANET, GIS Software, etc.

Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only

2 days remaining

Apply by 13 June, 2025

POSITION TYPE

ORGANIZATION TYPE

EXPERIENCE-LEVEL

DEGREE REQUIRED

IHE Delft - MSc in Water and Sustainable Development