Water System Infrastructure (WASH) Advisor
Role Summary
Medair seeks a Water System Infrastructure (WASH) Advisor in Ukraine to lead and support WASH projects, ensuring compliance and quality programming.
Key Responsibilities
\- Programme Quality: Maintain an overview of the WASH programme, ensuring compliance with standards, providing technical support, and conducting evaluations. Implement policies, conduct regular visits, supervise data management systems, review reporting
\- Monitoring: Monitor project quality outcomes and make necessary recommendations including corrective action where needed, work with Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) teams in programme MEAL activities.
\- Programme Development: contribute to WASH strategy in programme, in coordination with Global Support Office WASH Advisor, and develop new project designs inputting to proposals.
\- Staff Technical Capacity: Participate in staff recruitment, ensure all WASH staff are adequately trained and coached in technical areas, identifying areas for capacity strengthening and opportunities for development of WASH team.
\- Representation: Develop and maintain relationships with Sector Cluster coordination, NGOs, donors, and other stakeholders to support coordination, communication and highlight needs. Represent Medair at meetings, participate in networks, accompany donors on field trips, and facilitate synergies in the WASH sector.
Minimum Requirements
\- BSc / MSc in Water / Environmental Engineering or Management or Civil Engineering or Hydrology / Geology or relevant WASH degree.
\- Language skills: Good English (spoken and written)
\- 5 years overseas experience in relief work with an NGO managing and coordinating WASH projects, preferably in an emergency context
Financial management, project management, report and proposal writing experience
Working Conditions
Field based position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, with regular travel to field locations.
Application Information
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- [Medair organisational values](https://www.medair.org/jobs/our-culture/).
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with,[Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.](https://www.medair.org/accountability/)
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Eligibility Criteria
The role is field-based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, requiring substantial overseas experience in WASH project management and good English language skills.
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