WATSAN Team Leader at Solidarites International

Location: Maiduguri
Beginning of contract: ASAP
Contract duration: 6 months– Probation period: 2 month
Delocalization policy: According to SI conditions

Goal/Purpose

• The Team Leader will coordinate a team of Watsan foremen in order to set up the Water and Sanitation activities, ensuring that Solidarités International technical recommendations and procedures are followed.

Main Tasks
Setting up the activities /control and supervision:

• Plan the weekly activities for his/her team and have them approved by his/her Project Manager:
• Plan human resources needs (daily workers, workers...)
• Plan tool and material needs (request from stock)
• Anticipate administrative issues (requests in advance)
• Anticipate logistics issues (transport, communication means...)
• Organize and carry out, with his/her team, tasks assigned by his/her Project Manager
• Supervise and monitor each stage of activity. Ensure that standards and instructions given by his/her Project Manager, as well as Solidarités procedures, are followed
• Respect schedules and deadlines agreed upon with his/her Project Manager
• Report back any problems and constraints encountered during the course of the activities and suggest operational solutions

Logistics and Administration:

• When recruiting daily workers, follow procedures and directives outlined by his/her Project manager and the administrative service
• Train his/her team members to use and maintain the available tools correctly
• Track usage with monitoring tools provided
• Enforce safety procedures
• Ensure that safety procedures are followed by members of his/her team
• Monitor the quality and quantity of material delivered to working sites
• Ensure the receipt and storage of material and equipment necessary for his/her work to be carried out on site

Reporting / communication:

• Take part in weekly program meetings and clusters on request
• Keep his/her monitoring tools and files archived in the Solidarités office, accessible to his/her Team Leader and/or project manager
• Draw up and submit a weekly task report (which should include progress made by the team) to his/her project manager
• Take part in the drafting of the monthly program pack
• Establish and maintain good relations with local participants and communities (populations) in the operational fields
• Listen to the populations and local participants in the field and report to his/her project manager any non-technical or safety-related issues which could affect the activities or safety of Solidarités International teams

Personal Abilities
Professional experience:

• 2 year of experience in similar position (NGO/Private or Public sector) and 1 year of progressive experience in WASH
• Minimum of 1year Experience in Team Management   
• Languages: English, Kanuri/Shuwa, Hausa mandatory  (additional languages a plus)   
• Personal qualities:  excellent interpersonal skills (communication), ability to express clearly in group and in front of an assembly,  team player, reliable, honest, very good organization, resistance to stress

Technical competences:

• Training: B.Sc /HND in Civil and Water Resources Engineering/Geology or any relevant WASH qualification
• Project related skills : good knowledge of the project cycle, project implementation, project follow-up       
• IT skills: Good knowledge of Office software : Excel, Word, Outlook, Data collection and analysis software a plus
• Knowledge and understanding of the local context and communities preparably working in Maiduguri   
• Reliability, Honest, Accountability, Resistance to Stress, Good interpersonal skills, team player, Prioritisation of task.   

Salary and Conditions In accordance with SI’s Terms of Employment; for national staff in Nigeria