WASH Engineer at Mercy Corps

General Position Summary

• The WASH Officer – Public Health Promotion will lead the soft component of emergency WASH programming, focusing on hygiene promotion, community engagement, behavior change communication, and disease prevention.
• The role ensures Public Health Promotion activities are community-driven, gender-sensitive, and aligned with humanitarian standards.
• The Officer will supervise assistants and volunteers, coordinate across teams, monitor public health risks, and ensure accountability to affected populations.
• The WASH Officer will ensure effective implementation of activities in line with approved work plans, budgets, and M&E frameworks.

Essential Job Functions
The WASH officer is expected to conduct the following tasks and to produce a comprehensivefieldreport including the following:

• Support procurement of contractors – bids evaluation, duediligence, documentation
• Provide technicalassistancein 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 theprogram manager
• Preparation ofdesigns and BOQs ofWASH infrastructures
• Support theprogram managerin managing contractors by reviewing progress, measurement of works and ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and organizational policiesandminimumstandards
• Support thetimelyimplementation of project activities per the agreed work schedule.
• Liaisewithgovernmentand WASH stakeholders to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Collaborate with WASHCOMs tomonitorand 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.
• Attendanceofprogram 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.

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.

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.
• Willingnessto travel frequently to remote field locations.