WASH Officer (Soft Component)

WASH officer has a vital role to play in improving positive hygiene practices for the target population. This involves effectively managing the WASH soft components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing, and monitoring of WASH Soft component activities in field.
• Works closely with WASH team (promotors and social mobilizers) to identify communities, beneficiaries and the intervention in targeted communities.
• Participate in Hygiene Behavior Change Communication (HBCC) sessions and awareness.
• Support program manager on planning, implementation, and monitoring of WASH soft component within the program/project with consideration to social behavior change theories and practices, ensuring consideration to COVID-19 prevention and response.
• Ensure the monitoring of the WASH soft component programme objectives (HBCC, CLTS and more) and organize the WASH soft teams
• Ensure quality and respect of deadlines of the project soft and hard component activities implementation
• Regular technical follow-ups and evaluations on soft component activities in the field
• Check the planned soft component activities are absolutely clear to the members of the community
• Coordinate with PM to ensure project activities are in line with KRO technical guidelines
• Plan the soft component activities with close coordination of PM in order to respect the planning of the proposal and ensure that the program will not face delays and/or challenges
• Ensure all data from the field are provided on weekly and on monthly basis
• Communication with the team and collaboration with the PM.
• Participate in hygiene kit distribution process
• Identification beneficiaries for hygiene kit distribution
• Coordination with CDCs / Shuras / community leaders.

Administrative:

• Sharing and resolving problems and needs of project and project staff with program.
• To ensure relevant government departments and donor agency are updated on project activities and its involvement confirmed in project activities.
• Direct control and motivate the team ensuring that they have clear objectives and receive meaningful feedback on their performance.
• Reporting to Program Manager on project activities.
• Develop different formats forms for the smooth implementation of project and for best documentation

Coordination:

• Keep sufficient and proper coordination mechanism with relevant stakeholders and line departments.
• Avoiding the inappropriateness or conflict with cultural beliefs of groups within the target communities.
• Contact with community elders, local Shura members and other community influential people in participatory way to operate in a very efficient and coordinated manner.
• Strengthen coordination between project staff and stakeholders

Financial Management:

• Ensure effective and efficient utilization of project budget under responsibility for intended purposes.

Logistics:

• Arranging and managing logistics administration and transportation aspect/needs of project and project staff with the logistics department.

Data Management & Reporting:

• Organize and maintain project documentation in hard and soft.
• Jointly work with project staff in preparing the data on the proper aspect.
• Document the lessons learned and case studies and share with project staff and other stakeholders.
• Regular on time Reporting to the Line Managers on the roles and responsibilities given/ project implementation.
• Ensure effective documentation of the program and progress by capturing lesson learnt and good practices

Other:

• Participate in training workshops meetings project events held in any provinces.
• Visit project sites and monitor all activities
• Respect and adore all policies of KRO including but not limited to; code of conduct, PSEA, Child Protection and Anti-Fraud and Conflict of Interest Policies
• Maintain 100% transparency and accountability
• Any other task assigned by management

NOTE: Selected candidate will be subjected to background checks with regards to Child Protection and PSEA policy breaches during their past employments.