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Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is seeking profesional Water and Sanitation Program Manager.

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is an international network committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and their families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Action Against Hunger has pursued its vision of a world without hunger for nearly three decades, combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

As part of the ACF International Network, our 6,000 staff work in over 40 countries carrying out innovative, life-saving programs in nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, public health, and advocacy. Our programs reach some 5 million people each year, restoring dignity, self-sufficiency, and independence to vulnerable populations throughout the world.
Job Objectives:

General objectives

- To implement, manage and coordinate WASH programs in Mandera East and West
- To participate in strategy, proposal and report development
- Others; integration with other departments, capitalization

Specific objectives

- Coordination
- Strategy development
- Project Implementation
- Human Resource Management
- Budget Management
- Reporting
- Collaboration, integration
- Capitalization

Detailed Objectives and Activities

Coordination

- To draft an annual work plan (strategy) activities and update on a monthly basis
- To work in close collaboration with the WASH PM in Mandera West until September 2009, as well as all PHP teams and ensure the programs are integrated, coherent and complementary (in line with common goals). To assume the duties on Mandera East after the departure of the current WASH PM.
- (See also integration activity below)
- To participate pro-actively in coordination meetings and coordination in general (advocate for district level WESCOORD with MoWI, work with MoWI, feedback to communities, participate in the DSG meetings, ACF base meetings etc.)
- Collaboration with the local authorities and communities for the implementation of WASH activities
- In collaboration with the line Ministry engineer design the new facilities (Sand dam, ground water recharge, Terra Forming) and submit the design to the line manager for validation before implementation, also with the National Environmental Management Authority
- Put in place technical working group to assess the feasibility study for specific activities if needed
- Develop new opportunities for collaboration with the potential partners on the field (Ministry of Agriculture, Arid Lands, Ministry of Health, NGOs)
- Representation of ACF in any relevant forum.

Strategy Development

- Ongoing analysis of the humanitarian context
- To make the necessary step to identify community needs (coordination or/and needs assessment)
- To perform assessments and stakeholder analysis
- To report, organize and follow up assessments
- To pro-actively suggest ideas for the betterment of the program
- To lead, with the field coordinator and other PMs, the development of a district strategy.
- Contribute to strategy for the mission and sector

Project Implementation and Management

- To initiate and complete implementation of the WASH activities in time (construction, rehabilitation, training)
- To manage your resources to achieve the objectives
- To supervise the field work of team on daily basis
- To plan WASH team’s activities on weekly and monthly basis (including budget, logistics etc.)
- To support PHP PM in daily support and management of PHP team and needs (PHP is part of the WASH team, but is also supported by a flying PM. Very important to work in good team with this PM)
- To ensure that field work is carried out according to the technical standards
- Supervision of technical monitoring of all installations (development of BoQs follow up, recoding of consumption, use, completion reports, water quality testing etc.)
- To ensure that site selection is carried out to ACF criteria and standards
- To ensure continuous and routine activities are ongoing to a high degree of quality: ex. Community trainings, monitoring, water quality testing etc.
- In cooperation with senior staff in Mandera, to sensitize the communities and authorities at the beginning of the program, to mobilize communities to take part in the program, to ensure on going positive collaboration with communities for ownership and sustainability
- In conjunction with base logistics team to prepare timely orders for purchase of WASH equipment and materials, to proactively follow up on the orders and to provide the correct technical specifications to logistics to avoid errors that could delay the project implementation.
- To ensure correct dispatch and use of materials in the communities
- In conjunction with Administrative Team to prepare and follow up budget planning and expenditures
- Monitoring of accomplishments, indicators etc.

Supervision of community trainings (Big focus of next period)

- To plan training sessions with hardware (watsan) and software (PHP) teams Ensure PHP and Watsan team are in harmony, collaborating and coordinated in the community training aspects of the program
- To provide technical support to the design and further development of water users training
- To evaluate training curriculum on regular basis and propose relevant solutions and changes to the program
- To produce capitalization documents regarding trainings
- To recruit training team (if needed)
- To follow up water users associations

Human resources management

- To recruit locally staff for implementation of the water and sanitation program in Mandera district, where appropriate
- To ensure all WASH staff are working to the best of their ability
- To do timely evaluations
- To evaluate for improvement all job descriptions of your teams and write new ones as need be
- To carry out relevant technical training for the staff
- Supervise and give adequate technical support to the staff
- With Base HR Team, follow all necessary HR issues with the staff

Budget management

- Is responsible for all aspects of WASH program budgets for Mandera East, and Mandera West as of September 2009
- Assure that activities planning and BOQs etc. are in line with budgets
- Management of all spending on WASH Mandera East Program Budgets and Mandera West as of September 2009
- Ensure budget coding is used properly
- Follow up of budgets (minimum monthly) with all teams
- Budget forecasting for all activities (monthly and weekly)
- Follow up, responsibility and management of all WASH cash advances
- Where no budget may exist find solutions together with the administration team and WASHCo

Reporting

- Become familiar with donor reporting formats, know the timelines for reports
- Ensure your team is reporting, be creative
- Capacity build team for improved reporting and analysis
- To ensure adequate updates and report writing in accordance with WASHCo and Field Coordinator requirements (monthly narrative and APR Excell reporting + others if asked) usually the first week of each month
- Weekly sitreps to be compiled and sent to Field Coordinator.
- Preparation of and conduction of assessment reports and other field reports as need be
- Lead in Donor Reporting as required
- Other reports as needed from FieldCo and WASHCo.
- End of mission and detailed handover report to be sent to Project Coordinator, HOM and Technical Director

Collaboration and integration within ACF team

- Proactive and creative integration with Nutrition and Food Security teams
- Ensure WASH is integrated with other base activities
- Meet regularly with the other PMs from other departments
- Provide input and receive in put from other departments for WASH programs
- Proactively search for opportunities for integration of programs
- Collaboration with all teams in order to ensure the coherence of ACF activities and reports
- Collaboration with WASH Coordinator to ensure the proper implementation of programs and validation of data and reports
- Follow up of the program budget in liaison with the Finance Controller and in collaboration with the Field Coordinator, WASH Coordinator
- Follow up of the WASH material requirements of the program with the Logistics Department and in collaboration with the Field Coordinator, WASH Coordinator
- Participation in the program strategy, narrative and financial project proposals and reporting, in collaboration with Head of Base, Project Coordinator, WASH Coordinator and HOM.
- Participation in Nairobi Program and Coordination meetings if requested.
- Participation in all base coordination activities
- Participate in all program evaluations

To capitalize/document information

- Capitalization and compilation of existing documentation on WASH in Mandera District (maps, databases, reports, evaluations, minutes of meetings, guidelines).
- Collection of any other information relevant to the sector.
- There are several pilot projects and a great opportunity to capitalize information on subsurface dam, and impact on the agro pastoral or pastoral community.

Qualifications

Education / specific degree / special skills

- Master of Science degree in civil engineering, environmental & biosystems engineering or any water related Engineering field. (Civil/water/environmental engineering BS degree with a lot of experience and analytical skills and maturity)
- Technical expertise in water, irrigation and civil work, mostly related to rain water harvesting in arid situation (earth dam, check dam, sand dam etc).
- Water sanitation and hygiene in development context technical background is essential.
- Excellent knowledge of Public Health Promotion and Capacity Building in communities
- Good knowledge of community dynamics
- Strong experience in management of WASH programmes.
- Sound expertise in strengthening the capacities of ACF WASH personnel in management of WASH programmes.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills is a MUST
- Good knowledge of MS Office esp. Excel is imperative
- Excellent reporting skills.
- 3 – 4 years work experience with an international humanitarian agency.
- Knowledge and good understanding of logistical procedures.
- Strong personality and maturity and patience
- Good HR management skills.
- Fluency in English with good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work in a strong Somali Muslim environment with limitations in terms of movement, dress, etc.
- Ability to work independently and in isolation.
- Prepared to travel extensively to programme sites.
- Ability to work under pressure and within strict time limits.
- Ability to manage culturally sensitive issues.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Capacity to deal with complex emergency scenarios.
- Strong capacity to make quick decisions.
- High degree in motivation, result oriented creativeness and adaptability.

Deadline: 2009/07/01

Country or region: Kenya