Wash Engineer at Turkana Pastoralist Development Organization (TUPADO)

KEY COMPETENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental, Civil, Public Health Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in managing WASH grants is preferred (Minimum four years’ experience implementing and managing).
• Experience working on Bill of Quantities and design for water and sanitation facilities, particularly in ASAL communities.
• Be able to work under pressure as may be required.
• Be a team player.
• Be self-driven and able to work within tight deadlines.
• Detail-oriented, dependable, and productive.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• 1-3 years of experience in managing humanitarian programs involving rural communities to promote humanitarian response.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The purpose of this position is:

• To provide support in developing, planning, implementing, and monitoring the WASH project and supervising, conducting designs, studies, and reviewing water resources, sanitation, and hygiene development activities.
• The WASH Engineer is responsible for the overall WASH project operations.

Other Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implement WASH activities, including solarization of boreholes, repair of water infrastructure, and promoting good hygiene practices.
• Conduct WASH rapid needs/market assessments to confirm the price and availability of key
• WASH items and identify beneficiary priority needs and hygiene behavior.
• Support community health volunteers to conduct hygiene promotion at the community levels (campaigns, public demonstrations on masks, water purification aqua tab use)
• Support in the distribution of WASH NFIs to all the targeted HHssuch as aqua tabs, soap,20- litre jerrycans, and 100-liter storage containers.
• In collaboration with County/Sub County public health office, support in identification and training of community health volunteers on key infection prevention and control (IPC) measures using MOH-approved packages.
• Represent organization and project during quarterly coordination meetings with county/subcounty WASH working groups.
• Support in conducting project baseline, post distribution, and endline assessments.
• Assist in the preparation of the specifications and documentation for the procurement of key
• WASH-related supplies in coordination with the TUPADO procurement team.
• Prepare project monthly, quarterly, and annual technical reports, and assist in WASH project proposal developments and end of the project evaluations.
• Develop design plans, working drawings, technical specifications, bill of quantities as per approved standards by the Ministry of Water.
• Undertake other duties as required.

Female Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.