GOAL JOB DESCRIPTION

12 months with three month probation period

Immediately

GOAL
GOAL has been operational in North Sudan since 1985 and currently has well established programmes across four locations in the region. The current programme focus’s on four main sectors: education, (GOAL N Sudan supports an informal education approach called REFLECT for women’s literacy and empowerment intervention), water and sanitation, sustainable livelihoods and primary healthcare our largest sector. All interventions are carried out with local partners as appropriate and in the health sector GOAL has well established relations with MoH.
GOAL N. Sudan is in the process of updating N. Sudan Country Strategic Plan for 2007 – 2011. This process is addressing long term development approaches to sector programming across Sudan. To date the process has highlighted areas that GOAL N. Sudan wish to strengthen, reaching the poorest of the poor; moving towards evidence based programmes; building our community ownership processes and encouraging more capacity building both within GOAL staff and within the communities in which we work. The WASH Manager management team will have a central role in driving and influencing how these themes will be incorporated.
GOAL operates an integrated programme approach across all communities in order to ensure that all communities are fully engaged with addressing their own development needs. A key strategy for the next year is to have fully integrated programmes across all sites.
The above mandate will not preclude GOAL from responding to emergencies within our areas of operation, or from responding to urgent humanitarian need outside of these areas in the absence of other humanitarian actors.
Current field locations are in Kassala State in the East, Abyei in South Kordofan and Kutum in North Darfur with a limited presence in Dar es Salam camp on the outskirts of Khartoum. GOAL is also operational in South Sudan and as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in January 2005, cooperation and collaboration across both country programmes will be required.

Description of Abyei
As one of the three transitional states designated under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Abyei is undergoing a period of intense social and political change and uncertainty. Following decades of war, tens of thousands of formerly displaced people are returning to their family homeland every year, but there is as yet no mandated or effective government in place. GOAL was the first INGO to start work in Abyei, where we have been operating a primary health care programme since 2003. This has now expanded into an integrated operation with nutrition, health promotion, HIV, adult education and women’s empowerment, NFI, agriculture and water programmes aimed at post-conflict recovery.

Description of the role
The WASH Manager will co-ordinate all Abyei programmes in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion. A special emphasis on community ownership and contribution of water and sanitation projects requires particular strength in approaches like Community-Led Total Sanitation. Additionally the WASH manager will be coordinating closely with the health manager and health promotion team on consolidated community WASH program. In light of recent insecurities this is critical to the current response.

Key Duties:
At program level

• Support and build capacity to ensure the implementation of the WASH programme as defined in the strategic plan and as indicated by the WASH Coordinator for North Sudan.
• Planning of WASH projects in collaboration with the WASH national technical team and Abyei Area Coordinator.
• Oversee designs, installation and operation of the new WASH activities with the lens of hygiene promotion
• Develop, invent and identify new methods and activities that insure community received well targeted hygiene promotion.
• To link hygiene promotion to GOAL WASH engineering activities through effective coordination with the WASH technical team and the health team.
• Supervise all related water and sanitation engineering works to be carried out by GOAL in different operational areas of Abyei associated with WASH. This will include where necessary design, tendering, supervision of contractors and commissioning of works.
• Work closely with Health Team on health/hygiene promotion strategies and with communities to ensure good quality public health information on personal and environmental hygiene with particular reference to raising awareness in the communities of latrine use with special focus on the hygiene promotion part of it.
• Assist areas in preparation of Programme Management Plans(PMP’s), programmes and contract documents for all the aforementioned works through preparation of relevant work plan for the field activities to ensure progress on schedule and budget.
• Manage national staff and build their technical skills and knowledge and expertise on water, sanitation and hygiene promotion relevant to the programme.
• Assist in the capacity building of CBOs and local actors including the support development and training of Watsan committees
• Willingness to become involved and understand community processes and lead team in mobilizing community responsibility to realise the aims and objectives of the WASH projects by training communities in maintenance and operation of schemes and on sanitation awareness.
• Encourage community members to meet their own needs
• Encourage community leaders to act on behalf of the people they represent and help the needs of those people to be met.
• Integration and joint works
• Support M & E
• Other activities as assigned by the Area Coordinator

On coordination

• Coordinate with other NGOs and UN actors involved on water provision.
• Coordinate closely with Health Team on hygiene promotion and health messages.

On reporting

• Contribute as required in the prepare progress reports as required by GOAL and by donors.
• Contribute as required in the preparation of final reports.
• Contribute to monthly/weekly reports as required by AC
• Maintain Monitoring and Evaluation databank

On administration and finances

• Monitor expenditures on the interventions.
• Revise budgets for program activities.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Hold a recognized university degree in Water Engineering , environmental engineering, degree in Public health or similar related subject with a technical background with special focus on hygiene promotion part of it .
• 5+ years experience in various design, tendering and supervision of WASH engineering works. At least 2 of these should be in the water and sanitation company
• 3+ years of previous relevant experience in a development/emergency programme as programme manager.
• Experience of work and partnership with local development actors,
• Staff management, personnel and training skills essential.
• Good computer skills. Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel .
• Good standard of written, spoken and understood English.

Desirable

• Previous work experience with Non-Governmental Organisations particularly in a watsan programme management position.