Job Description

Location Yobe State, Nigeria.

Position Status: Full-time regular employee

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. In Nigeria, Mercy Corps has worked since 2012 by focusing its programming on adolescent girls’ empowerment, economic development, conflict mitigation, and humanitarian response.

General Position Summary

Mercy Corps is looking for WASH Officer (Engineer) who will be responsible for contributing to the effective supervision and monitoring of the planned infrastructure activities across the locations. This includes ensuring technical excellence, adherence to national regulations, and compliance with donor standards. The Engineer will also be tasked with preparing comprehensive progress reports and ensuring that project implementation is responsive to and aligned with the needs and priorities of the target communities. The WASH Officer must ensure the smooth implementation of program objectives according to approved work plan, adherence to budgets, and within a level of quality that can be measured through M&E interventions.

Essential Job Functions

The WASH officer is expected to conduct the following tasks and to produce a comprehensive field report including the following:

• Support procurement of contractors – bids evaluation, due diligence, documentation
• Provide technical assistance in WASH construction activities including day-to-day monitoring/supervision of all infrastructure construction/rehabilitation works.
• Responsible for day-to-day quality checks and management of infrastructure activities, to ensure compliance and effective use of project resources, and suggesting results-based solutions to the program manager
• Preparation of designs and BOQs of WASH infrastructures
• Support the program manager in managing contractors by reviewing progress, measurement of works and ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and organizational policies and minimum standards
• Support the timely implementation of project activities per the agreed work schedule.
• Liaise with government and WASH stakeholders to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Collaborate with WASHCOMs to monitor and inspect the work prior to certification.
• Work closely with the communications team on the documentation and dissemination of lessons learnt, best practices and success stories from the project.
• Attendance of program update meetings and briefings.

• Contribute to the development of weekly/monthly/quarterly project updates/reports.
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, document filing, monitoring and evaluation systems (to track, analyze and report on results) for both internal and external use.
• Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.

• Adhere to all MC policies related to security, operations and transport/ logistics information related to programming.

Organizational Learning

• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Knowledge and Experience

• University degree in Social Science, Public Health, Environmental Health, Nursing, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in WASH emergency programming with strong focus on community mobilization.
• Experience conducting hygiene promotion, training, NFI distribution, planning, and reporting.
• Knowledge of behavior change approaches and community engagement methodologies.
• Familiarity with Sphere and WASH Cluster standards.
• Strong understanding of gender, protection, and inclusion in humanitarian work.
• Experience working with NGOs in emergency response settings is desirable.
• Strong written and spoken English required; Arabic and/or local language skills are an asset.
• Ability to travel frequently to remote areas and work under emergency conditions.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel frequently to remote field locations.

Supervisory Responsibility

· WASH Assistants and Volunteers

Accountability

Reports Directly To: WASH Technical Manager, with dotted line to Senior Program Manager.

Works Directly With: All program teams, Operations, and MC beneficiaries

Success Factors

The successful candidate will be capable of multi-tasking, rapid decision-making, have initiative, drive and a lot of energy, as well as high emotional intelligence, constructive mentoring skills and proven experience with capacity building. S/he will be committed to long-term sustainability and the delivery of high-impact activities at the community level. Successful Mercy Corps team members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and challenging environments, and make effective written and verbal communication a priority.

Mercy Corps team members represent the agency both during and outside work hours. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and Mercy Corps' policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues