Job Summary
Smithson is looking for a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Consultant, to work with our team in the design and evaluation of WASH projects in the Nainawa region. Below is a summary of the responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership on improving WASH activities that aim to improve the policy and operating environment
- Develop and maintain relationships and work closely with local WASH actors, including national and local government, private sector, community, NGOs, other donors, etc.
- Contribute to program/project design, implementation, learning, and monitoring and evaluation through active collaboration with all team members;
- Contribute to and provide inputs of annual work plan, required project reports, baseline data, tools and indicators for monitoring and evaluation, collection / sharing of lessons learned;
- Document lessons learned related, evaluate impact and modify approaches as needed.
- Help develop internal organizational WASH-related training and development of tools, guidelines, standards to improve program quality;
- Write background documents, briefs, and presentations, reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis on WASH, as needed; and
- Act as the program’s WASH representative as it relates to WASH initiatives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent – Economics, Education, Environment, Health, Human Development, Information Science, International Development, Social Sciences or Related Field.
- Typically requires 5-8 years of managing data collection and technical assistance experience.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working on WASH initiatives
- Experience WASH initiatives in a combination of health and nutrition, livelihoods, gender, and agricultural development or similar Feed the Future initiatives
- Applied knowledge/use of evidence-based behavior change practices
- Experience working with relevant stakeholders, implementing partners, USAID and other donors
- Written and oral proficiency in English, Arabic language is a plus
How To Apply
Simply send your resume/CV to ahmed@smithson.co or contact (+964) 066 261 7760 for more information.
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