Watsan Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Scope of Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Main Objective:

• Supporting the Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation (Watsan) Manager in the implementation and supervision of Watsan activities, including tools and materials employed according to MSF standards and protocols, in order to improve health and living conditions of the target population.

Accountabilities

• Ensuring the day-to-day implementation and administration of assigned Watsan activities at project level, including but not limited to, water supply, excreta disposal, waste management, vector control, and dead bodies management
• Ensuring that the MSF procedures and protocols are followed by the Watsan teams to guarantee the operational quality of the project;
• Ensuring the maintenance and repair of technical equipment in the project to guarantee an adequate running of Watsan activities;
• Ensuring the distribution of the materials and tools used in water treatment, hygiene and sanitation (e.g. physical organization and inventory of stocks, receiving and processing orders for water, sanitation and hygiene material, checking that the amounts received are recorded, and checking monthly consumptions, etc.);
• Supporting the Watsan Manager in ensuring an appropriate emergency preparedness and response capacity (physical verification of stocks, contacts, transport means, staff training). Ensuring appropriate assistance to the project response team and if required, participating in emergency activities or exploratory visits
• Supporting the Watsan Manager in team planning (e.g. staff rosters and admin, HR processes, etc.) and informing and involving the Watsan Manager in case of any major management or technical issue, and providing all required reporting
• Planning and supervising the HR processes (recruitment, training, performance evaluation, task definition, and internal and external communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required for the activity
• Participating in data collection and reporting as required

MSF Section / Context-Specific Accountabilities

• As in all the MSF Projects, the WASH activities is to support Medical activities. The planned WASH activities in Lassa Emergency Response are to improve the quality and quantity of the water supply, adequate sanitation, and decent hygiene practices at Lassa Treatment Center and surrounding environment, access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene practice and Infection Prevention and control, in order to reduce illness and death, as well as contribute to poverty reduction and socio-economic development in the area.

Main objectives for the Watsan Supervisor (Lassa Fever Intervention):

• In collaboration with Watsan Manager, Plan, implement, supervise, and monitor all construction and rehabilitation activities related to Lassa Response.
• Participate in the setting up of all the proposed Watsan activities for the Lassa project, which
• includes, water supply, implementation of good hygiene and sanitation practices, proper waste
• managements, renovation/ rehabilitation of all Watsan-related facilities/ structures.
• Support uninterrupted water supply of good quantity and quality in the project.
• Monitor the compliance of all Watsan works in the projects with the minimum standards (Essential Requirements) related to the project framework and report any deviations to the Watsan Manager.
• Supervise and support external and internal hygienists, waste operators and technicians in their day-to-day activities ensuring implementation of activities is according to MSF guidelines and policies.
• Participate actively in all project-related meetings with other WASH actors to improve the public

Health Situation in the Lassa Project:

• Order regularly all project materials from supply department to ensure uninterrupted supply of required materials including proper storage for some sensitive items such as chlorine and DPD1 tablets, checking that the amounts received are recorded and recording monthly consumptions, etc;
• Ensure implementation of general preventive measures (protective clothing for staff, proper disinfection procedures management, chlorination, laundry and cleaning etc)
• Supporting the Watsan Manager in team planning (e.g. staff rosters and admin, HR processes, etc.) and informing and involving the Watsan Manager in case of any major management or technical issue, and providing all required reporting
• Planning and supervising the HR processes (recruitment, training, performance evaluation, tasks definition and internal and external communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required for the activity.