Vacancy Announcement
OXFAM GB in Ethiopia invites applicants for the following post:
Position : WASH Specialist
Duration : One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station : Dire Dawa
Salary Level : As per Oxfam GB National Salary Scale (D1)
Closing date :November 28, 2017
OXFAM PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
TEAM PURPOSE: Lead and provide hand holding technical support for partners WASH staff, consortium and relevant stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of the EU funded RESET II project in Siti.
JOB PURPOSE: To strengthen Oxfam GB’s capacity in WASH, ensuring that minimum standards are met and quality control carried out throughout the WASH programme. The post of WASH specialist will coordinate all the engineering hygiene and sanitation aspects of the WASH programme’s implementation as well as overseeing the design and implementation of Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion programme ensuring quality, community participation and integration of WASH and Livelihoods activities and technically lead consortium partner’s staff on WASH under EU RESET II project in Siti.
The post holder: will work closely with pastoralist communities, consortium members, UN cluster, regional/zonal/woreda water offices, coordination forums, partners, a private sector, Oxfam global team, and Oxfam International, Resilience Hub.
BACKGROUND:
The Resilience building and creation of economic opportunities in Ethiopia (RESET II) is an EU funded initiative in 7 different zones of the country. Oxfam leads the Siti Cluster which is a consortium made of three INGOs (Oxfam, Save the Children, and Caritas Germany) and two national organizations (HSC and PWO). The project’s Overall Objective is to strengthen economic opportunities and the resilience of the most vulnerable communities in Siti Zone cluster (Shinille, Aysha, Meiso, Afdem and Erer Woredas) to human-induced and natural disaster crises, through measures that will increase livelihoods and employment, and better access to basic services. The Specific Objective of the project is to improve sustainable access to essential basic services (water, health, and nutrition), enhance livelihoods and reduce vulnerability to shocks among pastoralists, agropastoralists and pastoral dropouts in Siti zone. The project’s duration is 42 months and within that lifespan it intends to achieve four main results: R1 Increased access to water, sanitation and hygiene services among target communities; R 2 - Increased access to and utilization of quality health care and nutrition services; R 3 - Strengthened livelihoods of pastoralists, agropastoralists and pastoral drop-outs in the target communities through better livestock management, enhanced crop-production practices and improved access to off-farm income generating opportunities; R 4- Targeted populations have improved access to information and actions that reduces their vulnerability and enhance their well-being.
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