WASH Specialist

Location: Kufra, Benghazi - Libya

**JOB SUMMARY**

The primary function of this role is to implement WASH activities in the coordination and guidance of the supervisor through the WASH team in accordance with the WASH strategy. Specifically, this will include Conducting assessment, planning, design, implementation, supervision, expansion/development, and administration of technical interventions. The role contributes to developing concept papers and proposals for interventions and provides data required in close cooperation with the team. Besides, the WASH Specialist ensures the capacity building of WASH national staff and stakeholders.

The individual cultivates and fosters internal and external networks with stakeholders and donors. Ensures effective project monitoring, regular reviews, preparation of donor reports, capturing lessons learned, close projects and implement exit plans. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

**MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Assessment**

- Conduct through the team the rapid needs assessments, and their analysis
- Provides the transition between needs identified into activity plans and budgets
- Conducts the assessment of in-country resources and capacities (human, material, and financial) for WASH program roll-out as per agreed objectives

**Program Design and implementation**

- Provide Technical WASH supervision and input to IMC WASH activity design and implementation
- Ensure the WASH program is delivered in a phased and prioritized manner with full consultation and coordination with International Medical Corps staff and other agencies, both governmental and non-governmental
- Ensure implementation of the aims and objectives of the WASH response program in line with WASH strategy
- Develop concept papers, letters of intent, proposals, and budgets in respect of the above
- Contribute to the selection, design, and implementation of activities for water systems for the given context (communities, health facilities, camps, and Schools), including source selection (groundwater, surface water), abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution for new systems and the rehabilitation of old water systems
- Contribute to the selection, design, and implementation of sanitation systems in communities, health facilities, camps, and Schools, including excreta disposal, vector control, solid waste disposal, and drainage. It considers local conditions, resources, customs, and community-level risk factors
- Contribute and deliver, in collaboration with other actors, a suitable hygiene promotion program that suits the local context (communities, health facilities, camps, and Schools), and would be widely accepted by beneficiaries
- Ensure all the infection prevention and control (IPC) activities, including supervision, training, and non-clinical teams
- Work closely with the Human Resources team for hiring and building the capacity of the national WASH team
- Ensure, promote, and lobby that the WASH program design considers Health, sex, protection, operation, maintenance, and sustainability
- Ensure Sphere standards (both qualitative and quantitative) are considered through the program cycle and are well documented
- Ensure sex and protection are considered throughout the project cycle, with women enabling decision- making around WASH challenges
- Ensure WASH program implementation is linked to Health, Nutrition, sex, child protection, and MHPSS
- Implement the appropriate supervisory, monitoring, and evaluation systems for WASH interventions

**Information and Coordination**

- Coordinate internally with IMC WASH technical unit, aiming to ensure high quality activity implementation according to international standards
- Provide regular WASH updates on progress, priorities, and challenges – verbally and in writing as required
- Represent International Medical Corps in governmental and non-governmental groups as needed and agreed with the supervisor
- Represent International Medical Corps in WASH and relevant Cluster activities
- Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily comprehensive

**Qualifications and Skills**

• Typically, master’s degree, water and sanitation engineering, civil engineering, or relevant technical WASH specialization

• At least five years of work experience designing and implementing water and sanitation systems in IDPs, refugee and migrant contexts, maintaining sanitation systems, and implementing hygiene promotion programs, including two years in a humanitarian setting; or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Preferred, experience in a national emergency and early recovery phases, including assessments and delivery of adequate water supply and hygiene promotion interventions in humanitarian and development contexts

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