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Palestine: WASH Specialist Palestine

Jun 8, 2024 | Norwegian Refugee Council
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. NRC works in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. NRC stands up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, its global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

What NRC is looking for:

An experienced WASH Specialist who will be responsible for planning and coordination of all WASH interventions, either directly within the WASH Core Competency (CC) or as an integrated response approach across other CCs. The position holder will lead the efforts to scale up WASH operations in West Bank and effectively address the immediate needs arising from the hostilities in Gaza and ensure timely and quality provision of required support. The ideal candidate will have strong implementation oversight experience as well as an enthusiastic and proactive approach to building a program portfolio.

The Position

Responsible for technical innovative development and quality of CC in the country, holistic programming (with other CCs) and ensuring harmonization and consistency across CC projects in line with NRC Programme Policy
Lead the process of establishing proposals, budgets, modifications, project reviews, and reporting, ensure high technical quality and provide strategic guidance on programme design.
Take the lead on establishing and following quality project deliverables to ensure high technical outputs including but not limited to review of technical and safety assessments, bill of quantities, participation in tender processes and review of outputs.
Support programmatic MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) and indicator tracking, WASH data and means of verification reviews, and follow-up in conjunction with project teams and the MEL unit.
Develop and lead on conducting joint technical assessments, needs assessments (in collaboration with Areas Program and MEL teams), baseline, mid-and end-evaluations.
Explore and develop strategic partnerships contributing to quality programming.
Accountable for organizational learning from programme implementation, for sharing of best practices and for capacity building.
Develop and lead quality improvement plans, using quality benchmarks and Complaint and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) outcomes, and ensure continuous improvement.
Overview the activity implementation and undertake field support visits post initiation of projects to evaluate needs: support areas and teams including raising red flags where needed.
Actively promote and operationalize synergies between WASH and other NRC programmes to move toward integrated responses focusing on Shelter, CASH and Markets, Education. Protection from Violence, and ICLA (Information Counselling and Legal Assistance)
Ensure budgets, work plans and spending plans in line with donor budgets are developed and maintained by supporting Project Coordinators, Managers and Area Managers
Provide support and input to the recruitment processes for all WASH staff in the country.
Ensure NRC’s Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP) and digital solutions are incorporated into WASH programming.
Include the NEAT+s environmental assessment tool into the CC toolbox leading to more sustainable environmental practices.
Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors.
Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

Qualifications

Degree relevant to WASH such as: civil engineering, public health or related fields of study (master’s degree would be an added advantage)
Minimum 4 years of experience within a humanitarian/recovery context with at least 2 years of WASH expertise (as Specialist/Technical Adviser and/or Program/Project Manager or an equivalent).
Civil engineer with experience of designing emergency water supply systems.
Previous experience working in complex political contexts. Significant knowledge of the Middle East Region and Palestine context is highly preferable.
Good understanding of key technical standards (SPHERE, HAP, IASC, safe and inclusive programming, gender mainstreaming, IHL, humanitarian principles etc.) with the ability to rate into programming.
Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high and diverse workload.
Knowledge and skills in market analysis, cash-based interventions, and market-based programmes
Experience with new programming start-up and expansion desirable. Experience working in remote management contexts desirable.
Experience in leading needs assessment, project monitoring and evaluation activities and programme development.
Experience in team capacity building.
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high and diverse workload.
Advanced computer skills, especially in MS Office; Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
Fluency in English both written and verbal. Knowledge of Hebrew or Arabic desirable.

What NRC Offers

Duty station: Jerusalem, Palestine
Contract: 12 months (Renewal is subject to performance and funds availability)
Travel: Minimum of 30% time in Gaza (to NRC operational areas)
Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions
NRC is an equal opportunities employer. NRC is committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
NRC thinks outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. Employees will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC

Important information about the application process

Internal candidates: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with official email or click on Opportunity MarketPlace.
When creating candidate profile, include candidate full name as given on national identification card. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
Submit application and CV in English, taking care to attach latest CV.
Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
NRC receives many applications for each vacant position and so only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
This position is open to candidates who have the legal right to work in Palestine. Due to legal restrictions in obtaining visas for some applicants please click on this link to confirm eligibility before sending application.
Please email mero.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. NRC’s 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

NRC currently has over 3,000 staff across the Middle East dedicated to assisting people affected by conflict in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. Its humanitarian interventions are based upon its programming expertise in the Core Competencies of Shelter, Education, WASH, Livelihoods and Food Security, and Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) to vulnerable displaced people that were forced to flee.

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Learn more about NRC's operations in Palestine here.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and it has procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.