Country: France
Closing date: 28 Feb 2016
ACF is looking for a WASH Technical Advisor - Djibouti, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia
Based in Paris 17
Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the Deputy Regional Director of Pool Operations and under the functional responsibility of the referent of the WASH Department, you will have the responsibility to support field and office teams to ensure the quality, relevance and technical innovation of ACF interventions.
More particularly, you will be responsible for:
Provide contextual technical analysis to the desk pool on technical issues across the geographical area
Provide technical advice to the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Coordinators (WASH) of the missions:
Provide your technical expertise
Propose a strategy of capitalization, appropriate tools and methods for its implementation.
Promote and evaluate the technical quality of interventions in the missions:
Contribute to the definition and updating of intervention strategies developed by the missions
Disseminate internal technical standards and reference documents and accompany implementation
Evaluate compliance with ACF technical standards through field visits and internal audits, produce recommendations to improve program performance
Monitor performance and quality of programs
Develop the technical expertise of field teams:
Capitalize best practices developed on missions
Propose innovative approaches and intervention methodologies to the missions
Develop internal training modules and conduct training modules.
Participate in the human resource management of the WASH sector:
Carryout technical recruitment interviews for expatriates
Brief, train, and debrief expatriates
Ensure the role of functional reference of WASH Coordinators, assess their skills and needs for development.
Promote technical advances and contribute to the development of ACF expertise in the field:
Participate in the development of reference materials on the sector
Analyze problems encountered in the field, propose research priorities for the missions and animate their thinking
Ensure a watch on internal and external technical innovations.
Qualification and previous experience:You hold a bachelor degree in WASH (hydrology, hydrogeology, hydraulic and/or environment), you have at least 3 years of WASH humanitarian experience and 1 year at coordination level. Field experience with ACF as well as knowledge of WASH issues related to the Ebola pandemic would be a real asset. Rigorous and organized, you have good interpersonal skills and must be able to make decisions quickly while managing priorities. You work well in a team and are able to adapt to different situations and interlocutors.
Fluent English is required.
Status: Executive Level - Permanent - Full-time
Annual Salary : Salary between€ 35.7k and €41.5K gross over 13 months, 21 days of extra leaves (RTT)/ year, restaurant vouchers of 8 € (60% covered by ACF), complementary health insurance (covered 80% by ACF), refund of 50% of public transportation fees
Starting Date:the 1st of March 2016
ACF has an employment policy for disabled people.
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