Job Purpose
- The Public Health Engineer Lead (PHE-L) contributes to the
overall delivery of both the Oxfam Country Strategy and the Humanitarian
Strategy. The PHE-L heads the PHE team in providing technical support to
partners in the design and delivery of WASH programmes, in both urban and
rural areas, in lockstep with the public health promotion team, and in
coordination with other thematic leads for effective programme
integration. The PHE-L is responsible for: working with partners in
programme design and ensuring quality implementation of civil works on
time and within budget; the strategic development of innovative approaches
to ensuring quality, sustainable water, such as through operations and
maintenance, or water outcome financing; the development of WASH related
proposals to grow income; the development of knowledge and learning to
influence the technical sector; and the strengthening of partner
capacities in WASH.
Key Responsibilities (Technical, Leadership, People
And Resource Management)
Strategic Development – 20%
- Identifying gaps and opportunities in the WASH sector
- Developing concept notes and proposals aligned with the
country and Rights Resilience and Response approach, as related to
improving water security – and in particular in close coordination with
Oxfam experts on good governance and gender justice.
- Building and maintaining strategic relationships with partners
and authorities at national and county levels.
- Contributing to strategic and operational planning.
Technical Leadership – 40%
- Supporting partners in assessment, design (including BoQs),
planning and implementation of civil works infrastructure including
improving water quality, water storage, distribution, and sanitation
- Providing technical guidance to partners in accordance with
relevant national and international standards
- Ensuring that all WASH activities incorporate gender and
safe-programming best practice
- Ensuring coordination with the public health promotion team,
and other thematic/sectoral leads for effective programme integration and
impact
- Participating in multi-sectoral and multi-partner assessments
and specific technical assessment/survey of a water/sanitation schemes
where appropriate
- Contributing to the development of an O&M market-based
approach model by supporting with the reviews of technical details,
costings, and contracting of appropriate service providers.
- Contributing to the development of outcome-based financing
models to improve alignment, accountability and impact.
Partnership Management and capacity building – 30%
- Working closely with the partners to ensure that WASH
projects/interventions are implemented in a quality, cost effective and
efficient manner.
- Providing technical support to partners to strengthen WASH
programming capacities, including trainings on national and international
WASH standards, and preparedness planning
- Supporting networked approaches that bring together local
partners with WASH capacity as a rapid response team in liaison with
County steering groups and County water departments.
- Monitor progress of project activities along the entire
project management cycle and submit timely financial and narrative
progress reports.
Knowledge Management and M&E – 10%
- Liaise with the Oxfam Programme Quality on Monitoring &
Evaluation (M&E) staff to ensure effective and efficient program
monitoring and reporting processes are in place and implemented to achieve
programme activities, and financial expenditures. Undertake periodic site
visits to monitor the project progress and provide technical guidance and
support; and monitor compliance with technical standards.
- Contribute to building evidence of best/good practices and
results of operational research for relevant local, regional and global
platforms.
- Attend delegated co-ordination meetings at national and county
levels, to enhance collaboration and networking with other agencies and
line ministries.
- Ensuring programme learning feeds into planning processes at
all levels, with specific focus on documenting technical innovations and
piloted technologies.
Others
- Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values;
- Understanding of and commitment to adhere to safeguarding,
equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing
principles.
Person specification
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam needs to
be able to:
- Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT,
COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
- Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including
adhering to the Code of Conduct).
- Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them
in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning,
with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of
their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class,
or LGBTQIA identity.”
- Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and
adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam
are as safe as possible.
Essential
- Self-Awareness: Ability to develop a high degree of
self-awareness around own strengths and weaknesses and impact on others.
- Agility, complexity and ambiguity: Ability to scan the
environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and
deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and
unpredictable ways.
- Mutual accountability: Ability to explain our decisions and
how we have taken them based on.
Essential Competencies (Knowledge /experience)
- Degree in Engineering fields (Civil, Water, Environmental or
other relevant fields)
- At least 7 years’ experience in design and construction of a
variety of Water and Sanitation facilities (urban and rural water
solutions, latrines, sewage systems etc).
- Experience in managing emergency WASH response programmes.
- Experience working with public health teams and partners in
designing and implementing comprehensive health and hygiene promotion
programmes
- A proven record of mentoring teams and partners on design,
construction and operations and maintenance of Water & Sanitation
interventions, assessment, and development of technical standards in WaSH
and Water Quality Testing.
- Experience in preparing project related reports/documents.
- Sound IT skills, including Word, Excel and AutoCAD;
- Excellent command of oral and written English.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Arid and Semi-Arid areas (ASALs) and
urban informal settlements.
- Flexible, adaptable, sense of humour, patience and most
importantly, initiative.
- Excellent facilitation and interpersonal skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines.
- Methodical and thorough.
- Cross cultural awareness and sensitive to our organizational
values.
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