Title: Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) WASH Officer
Location: Roving throughout the Oromia Region. Location to be confirmed
Reports to: Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) Team Leader
Start of Contract & Duration: 6 Months
Posting date: April 27, 2018
INTRODUCTION
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), an international non-governmental organization (NGO), has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC promotes and supports solutions to the problems faced by refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and migrants. The organization has offices across the region, and has been operational in Ethiopia since 2009. With funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, DRC is currently implementing a range of activities across Ethiopia and Djibouti, including WASH and shelter provision, child and youth protection, gender based violence response, awareness-raising of migration risks, protection monitoring of migration routes, and livelihoods support for returning migrants or those at-risk of migration.
Overall purpose of the role:
The Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) WASH Officer will be responsible for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene needs assessments, and the development and management of WASH interventions in line with DRC Ethiopia’s Emergency strategy and organization policy framework in Oromia Region. The RRM WASH Officer will implement DRC Mobile response program to respond to displacement crises across the country with a focus on active and rapid post displacement WASH programming. This includes pre-planning, follow up of new emergencies and displacement with the cluster and other partners; conduct rapid protection assessment; ensuring rapidity of response; determine scale of assistance and timely delivery of program activities. She/he will work with wash partners and integrate WASH with other humanitarian actors by building capacity, increasing community engagement, and strengthening mechanisms for self-protection by communities.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Conduct multi-sectorial rapid assessments
Manage the project team
Represent DRC
In this position, you will also be expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
Striving for Excellence: Focusing on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
PERSONAL SPECIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
Education: (include certificates, licenses etc.)
Languages: (indicate fluency level)