WATER AND SANITATION ENGINEER (HSP)

Job posted by: Oxfam GB - UK - Thu, 20 Jul 2017

Job Details:

Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK

Deadline Thu, 17 Aug 2017

Job type: Contract

Location:

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Annual Salary and Benefits        -

£30,787 - £36,547 take home, after tax has been deducted

Internal Job Grade                      -

Global Level C1

Contract type                               -

1 Year fixed term

Reporting to                               -

PHE Team Leader/Advisor; whilst on deployment reporting to the designated Project Manager or Programme Co-ordinator

Staff reporting to this post         -

PHE staff depending on deployment

Locations                                      -

This is a roving role and the postholder will normally spend their working time on deployment in any country in which Oxfam works. Deployments can last for up to 6 months and travel may be required at short notice. When not deployed, the post holder may undertake proactive work in their home base.

 

 

WASH Public Health Engineering Team Purpose:

The Oxfam Global Humanitarian Team supports countries and regions in their response to crises and supports them in emergency preparedness to become more resilient to future shocks and stresses. . The WASH team leads on the delivery of the WASH strategy, supports countries and regions in large scale responses, supports humanitarian capacity building in country teams, leads and coordinates the representation of Oxfam WASH in global humanitarian bodies, processes and debates in global partnerships and ensures that learning from research, responses and international flora are shared internally and more broadly with the WASH sector.

Job Purpose:

To enable Oxfam to respond quickly to the Public Health Engineering requirements of an emergency. The work may involve, immediate deployment in the first phase of an emergency stage, to assess the situation and subsequently implement public health engineering solutions appropriate to the context to provide life saving water and sanitation measures in accordance with international standards to alleviate the plight of the people affected by the emergency. Support may continue thereafter until the situation is stabilised and/or to strengthen capacities, systems and resources on the ground to be more prepared for either scaling up or future shocks.

 

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Minimum requirements all HSP’s members are expected to fulfil:

  1. Ability to deploy at short notice to areas affected by crisis and support the rapid scale up of humanitarian programmes to meet life saving needs of affected people.

  2. Demonstrate Oxfam values and behavioural competencies.

  3. Management skills: HSP deployments usually involve managing a team to deliver the work, HSP members will need to demonstrate management competencies, of international and multi-cultural teams, in difficult and stressful environments.

  4. Behavioural skills; all HSP deployments require the individual to successfully work with and mentor others often under challenging circumstances. RRT members should demonstrate competencies around “listening and creating dialogue” and “working with others” as well as networking skills.

    Essential

  • A suitable qualification in a discipline related to Public Health Engineering. Experience could substitute for a formal qualification, but not vice versa.

  • Proven practical experience in humanitarian responses in appropriate water supplies, sanitation and hygiene promotion. It is desirable that most of this should have been in large scale emergency relief programmes. The post holder should have a good understanding of the WASH needs of poor rural and urban communities and of appropriate ways of tackling them. The post holder must be aware of and sensitive to the particular needs of women in this context.

  • The ability to write strategies, programme proposals and concise reports sometimes at short notice, reflecting the problems and possible solutions for particular situations.

  • To demonstrate the ability or willingness to implement different approaches to Humanitarian WASH programming using cash, vouchers or market based approaches.

  • Diplomacy, tact and administrative skills in order to work with people at managerial and, on occasions, senior government levels.

  • Understanding of the UN response and coordination mechanisms.

  • Well developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.

  • Experience and the ability to build the capacity of field teams is essential.

  • Good written and spoken English and French and the ability to communicate in Arabic is highly desirable.

  • Willingness to travel at short notice, and often in difficult, stressful, circumstances.

  • Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.

  • Commitment to Oxfam’s equal opportunity and gender policies.

     

     

    All applications must be submitted in English with an English CV.

    All applications must be submitted here, through the Oxfam website: https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/6429/description



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