WASH Programme Manager - (Only females)

TITLE:  WASH Programme Manager – Puntland 

TEAM/PROGRAMME: WASH

LOCATION: Garowe

GRADE: 2

POST TYPE: National (Internal & External)

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 – the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

To contribute to Save the Children’s capacity to meet its drought response and child survival objectives in Somalia, through the provision of quality water and sanitation programmes in emergencies.  The role will specifically address coordinating water and sanitation activities, including construction or rehabilitation needs in emergencies through assessment, programme design, management, capacity building and evaluation. The role exists to develop direct emergency water and  sanitation programmes and strengthen and provide technical support for Save the Children’s core programme sectors of health, education, child protection and hunger reduction where required.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to:  Deputy Area Representative-PL  

Key Working Relationships

Internal:  

Deputy Area Representative- Puntland – Direct Supervisor

Nutrition Advisor (Somalia – Technical support

Area Representative, Puntland

Humanitarian Advisor – Field support

Technical Coordinators of other SC Somalia programs

Field Manager, Garowe, Gardo and Bosaso Puntland

SC M&E focal points

SC Emergency Response team 

Sectoral PMs ( Education, FSL, Health, WASH, CP)

Staff reporting to this post: Project Officers, Assistants and WASH Coordinator

Budget responsibility: All WASH

Other key working contacts: Field Managers, Supply chain Manager, Finance Manager, Awards Managers, HR manager and Reporting Coordinator, other sector Programme Managers and Technical Advisors

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Precise objectives will vary between assignments. The core areas that the position holder will be expected to deliver on are as follows:

·         Lead or support WASH assessments, including interpretation of early warning indicators

·         Design appropriate emergency response interventions based on assessed needs, including but not limited to: WASH support to nutrition and health centres; household and school water treatment and supply; household and community sanitation, water and sanitation for temporary shelters and children friendly spaces, hygiene material distributions, hygiene promotion campaigns and planning for full transitional project interventions where necessary.

·         Management of emergency WASH interventions, including recruitment, staff management, capacity-building, development of work plans, grant management and reporting.

·         Support evaluations of emergency WASH responses.

·         Advocacy, coordination and external representation activities with other NGOs, UN agencies, donors and national governments, and support to cluster and or other inter-agency processes.

·         Ensure that WASH interventions are informed by and integrated with Save the Children’s other core sectors of health, education, nutrition, food security & livelihoods and protection. Examples of such integrations include but not limited to: if the health team through their disease surveillance identify districts with increased diarrhoeal, typhoid or cholera cases or the nutrition teams conducted screening and reported a lot of malnutrition cases from certain village or camps, then the WASH team will scale up its activities in these districts. Rehabilitation/maintenance of existing water sources will build community response capacity and ensure program sustainability.

Assessment and programme design

1.    Play a technical support role in assessing the WASH (water supply, sanitation, public health promotion) needs of disaster affected communities.

2.    Ensure that assessment, programme design and implementation considers children’s roles, needs and vulnerabilities within the community.

3.    On the basis of these assessments to design and construct appropriate responses to meet people / institutional (health or nutrition centres) basic WASH needs, including water supply, excreta disposal, solid waste management, vector control and hygiene promotion.

4.    Ensure that WASH programme design is informed by and integrated with Save the Children’s other priority sectors of nutrition, food security, livelihoods, health, education and child protection. WASH Programme evaluations should also consider the causal linkages between other sectors and WASH outcomes.

5.     Assist in the preparation of relevant project proposals for donors and advocate for funding.

6.     Assist in preparation of work plans, BoQs and expenditure plans based on various WASH grants for the area.

7.     Ensure that sustainable systems are set in place for longer term operation and maintenance of all water supplies and sanitation facilities including the provision of all necessary training.

Programme and people management

8.    Prepare and oversee the implementation process to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against project deliverables, work plans)

9.    Contribute to timely financial and narrative reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. Ensure appropriate management and use of SC UK resources at all times

10.  Supervise and manage sub-contracts (construction) including BOQ, costs, quality of construction and timeliness.

11.  To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere standard and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

12.  Help be responsible for the security of all staff. Ensure that the security, health and well-being of staff are ensured and staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect SC principles of equity and fairness.

13.  Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff. Look for opportunities for experiential learning within all work

Program Integration

14.  Ensure WASH intervention helps to ensure that the basic needs of affected populations, however, gender must be integrated to consider the different needs of women, men, boys and girls. The use of communal water and sanitation facilities, for example in refugee or displaced situations, can increase women’s and girls’ vulnerability to sexual and other forms of gender-based violence

15.  Ensuring access to clean water and sanitation services and technologies a core objective of any nutrition programme

16.  Ensure that Health facilities are provided relevant water and sanitation infrastructure to function properly including  access to enough volumes of clean water and improved sanitation facilities critical for cholera treatment centres.

17.  Ensure that WASH infrastructure and hygiene materials are provided at child friendly spaces, residential schools, orphanages, detention facilities and other groups caring for children and train the WASH Officer and Assistants on how to refer child survivors, separated children and children at risk of violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect to appropriate services.

18.  Ensure that adequate WASH facilities are provided to schools including gender segregated latrines, girls friendly sanitation facilities, child-to-child hygiene education activities.

19.  Closely work with other PMs and ensure that WASH is integrated with other interventions,

Representation, advocacy and organisational learning

20.  Ensure that Save the Children's work in water, sanitation and hygiene promotion is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and represent Save the Children at Interagency Coordination meetings.

21.  Take steps to document lessons learned in emergency WASH for wider dissemination

General

22.  Report, as required, on project work and any management issues arising in each assignment (to the area management teams)

23.  Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, procurement and logistics, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

24.  Ensure that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and gender and children issues. In particular to promote the full and equal participation of women and children in all aspects of the work.

25.  Within reason, implement additional actions and responsibilities, as requested by your line manager.

Person specification

This position requires a motivated team player who can work flexibly in stressful situations, with a solid background in implementing WASH projects including engineering and hygiene promotion aspects; a quick learner with good inter-personnel skills and a positive personality, with a good track record.

Note: This position can only be applies by female candidates.

SAVE THE CHILDREN  COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK

Developing self and others (accomplished level)

-          Gives regular positive and constructive feedback to others

-          Identifies clear development needs and development plans through regular constructive reviews of their own performance (and their team’s where appropriate)

-          Creates space for others to learn and provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments when people are ready for them

-          Coaches others to learn from their experiences on the job and to use the resources available to them 

Delivering results (Accomplished level)

-          Maintains both a broad strategic perspective and an awareness of the detail of a situation

-          Establishes clear and compelling objectives with teams  and individuals and monitors progress and performance

-          Creates and applies measures and metrics to track performance

-          Holds others accountable for achieving results and challenges underperformance

-          Demonstrates financial awareness and a concern for cost effectiveness

Problem solving and decision making (Skilled level)

-          Gathers the right information and uses critical thinking to make effective and timely decisions

-          Stays with a problem or challenge until a solution is reached or is no longer reasonably attainable.

-          Knows when to involve others in a decision

-          Demonstrates awareness of the wider external influences that impact on decision making

-          Simplifies processes and procedures wherever possible

Communicating with Impact (accomplished level)

-          Conveys complex issues with clarity, brevity and confidence

-          Promotes dialogue with key stakeholders through active listening and effective questioning

-          Adapts communication style to maximise support and engagement

-          Advises others on different approaches to influence key stakeholders

-          Seeks out new methodologies for communication to engage new audiences

Working effectively with others (accomplished level)

-          Enables people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to contribute to positive outcomes

-          Breaks down silo working and challenges behaviors that are not collaborative

-          Knows when to follow and when to lend leadership to strengthen other leaders

-          Recognizes when trust is broken and seeks to resolve conflict and re-establish trust

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

·         Extensive experience (minimal 5 years) of WASH programme management in humanitarian or fragile state contexts

·         A degree in public health, with experience in WASH engineering and hygiene promotion activities in an NGO context. Ideally some of this experience will have been in an emergency situation. Experience can substitute for qualifications but not vice versa.

·         Experience in WASH assessments, project design, implementation and evaluation.

·         Ability to write clear, well-argued assessment and project reports

·         Monitoring and evaluation skills

·         Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation

·         Excellent communication skills

·         Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact  and diplomacy

·         Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

·         Commitment to SC's Child Protection Policy

·         Computer literate (ability to use advanced excel)

·         A basic level of written and spoken English and good command over Somali

Desirable

·         Experience of and ability to represent SC work in external meetings.

·         Experience of community mobilisations, distributions and hygiene promotion

·         Ability to work hands on implementation capacity

·         The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible, and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.

CHILD SAFEGUARING POLICY:

Any employee, consultant, contractor or the supplier undertaking an activity on behalf of SCI must sign the Child Safeguarding - Declaration of Acceptance  Form] and comply with the SCI’s Child Safeguarding Policy which is a statement of SCI’s commitment to preventing abuse and protecting children with whom it comes into contact. 

This extends not only to children with whom SCI and its partners work directly, but also includes children whom staff are responsible for.  SCI believes that the situation of children must be improved through the promotion of their rights supported and demonstrated by all members of staff. Save the Children International's Code of Conduct sets out the standards which all staff members must adhere to.     

CODE OF CONDUCT 

Because Save the Children's work is based on deeply held values and principles, it is essential that our commitment to children's rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff. Save the Children's Code of Conduct sets out the standards which all staff members must adhere to

Declaration of commitment:

I ……………............................................................................................................. understand and agree to undertake my responsibility in accordance with the above listed accountabilities/activities and also abide the terms and conditions of the contract

Signature: ………………..                                                                    Date: ………………

following are additional benefits which applies to successful female candidates

•       14 weeks of maternity leave subject to certain length of service conditions

•       Increased health and dependence allowance

•       30 days of annual leave excluding weekends [Fridays]

•       Additional 10% female allowance

Note: This position can only be applied by female candidates.

Application closing date:6th November ,2023

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