🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Welthungerhilfe – WASH Officer

Job Title: WASH Officer 

WELT HUNGER HILFE 

Are you aiming to work for an organization where it is worthwhile investing your personality, your skills and your time? Are you looking for a job that is exciting and has clear goals? Welcome to Welthungerhilfe!

We are one of the largest and most respected private organizations for development cooperation and humanitarian aid in Germany. As a politically and confessionally independent organization, our value-oriented actions are always based on ethical principles. Our vision is clear: “Zero Hunger by 2030″ – If you want to become part of our global mission to end hunger around the world, we look forward to receiving your application as:

WASH Officer*

in Pujehun, Kenema 

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration of 9 months. There are very good prospects for an extension. Employment location will be in Pujehun, Kenema.

The objective of this position is to Improve food security by increasing access to nutritious, diverse, and affordable food through enhanced subsistence farming and fishing practices that are climate-smart and sustainable.

Your responsibilities 

The WASH Officer will be required to perform mainly the following tasks:

Ensure availability of accurate, complete information required for effective WASH programming in line with the project goal and objective, position.

Regularly monitor the execution of Project Implementation related activities and results. A feed-back to the Head of Project must be provided.

Organize, coordinate, implement and document meetings, trainings and other events related to the project’s field activities.

Participate and contribute to project review meetings.

Facilitate WASH trainings and supervise cascading of trainings.

• Provide supportive supervision to Implementing Partners, animators rolling out/cascading WASH and Clean Energy trainings at household levels.
• Coordinate the planning of project activities within the defined areas.
• Coordinate with local authorities and communities to gain full support in the implementation of WASH activities.

Participate in the design and production of appropriate WASH messages for promoting behavior change.

Support and monitor the establishment of community water management committees at project sites and promote community participation in all WASH activities, maximizing community contributions and sensitizing all players of their roles and responsibilities in the program.

Compile program reports (training reports, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports) as required and ensure timely submission.

Work collaboratively with Agricultural extension officer, Nutrition officer, VSLA officer and partner to collect, analyze, and share information on implementation issues, suggest solutions on routine programme implementation and alert Head of project for higher-level interventions and decision.

• Assess needs for WASH interventions (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene facilities) and provision for clean energy solution at community level.

Supervise the execution of the WASH works directly and provide technical guidance and expertise to the Hygiene Promotion within operational communities.

Providing accompaniment support in capacitating community-based water management structures like water management committees on the operations and maintenance of completed water facilities within operational communities.

Ensure hygiene and sanitation promotion through sensitization and awareness raising in communities

Your profile :

B.SC in Agriculture and and maximum 3 years experience in related field

Advanced knowledge of MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word MS Teams

Excellent command of spoken and written English; any further local language skills would be an asset

Our offer 

We offer you the opportunity to work in a responsible and interesting field as part of an extremely dedicated team. Welthungerhilfe attaches great importance to the personal and professional development of its employees. Remuneration is based on our gender-independent salary scale.

Please send your application via our online recruiting system by February 18th, 2025 (https://shorturl.at/Xg67Q). Welthungerhilfe is committed to fighting terrorism in all its activities. Accordingly, any applicant who is offered employment will be screened against lists of known and suspected terrorists.

*Welthungerhilfe values diversity and ensures an inclusive, non–discriminatory working environment. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community.

Our Code of Conduct

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Our Projects

We fight against hunger and poverty by implementing. Projects in numerous countries.

Our Strategy.

“Zero Hunger by 2030″ Our strategy guides us in our work.

Transparency and Quality.

Welthungerhilfe, its employees, as well as its partners commit to transparency and quality.