Background of IRC:
The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery, and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
Job Overview
This position mainly will help to contribute to the improvement of the health and socio-economic well-being of targeted communities by increasing access, capacity building, and fostering ownership among communities and local government to sustainably meet their water, sanitation, and hygiene needs. The position mainly involves undertaking detail technical WASH knowledge areas on detail feasibility assessment, analyses and preparing detail designs including specification and BOQ for the hardware activities (Water supply and Sanitation facility) under charity water project. It also requires very good knowledge on monitoring and supervise of construction activities to ensure its quality and sustainability and handing over the construction WASH facilities to the user communications and concerned government organizations. The EH officer will directly report his achievements to Senior EH officer. He will also monitor the works of Environmental Health Assistant under his supervision in the intervention Woreda.
Major responsibilities
Educational Requirements:
Preferred experience & skills:
Language Skills:
Fluent spoken and written English.