Role and Responsibilities

Offer strategic and technical Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) advice to Headquarters and the field, training and coaching to Medair field WASH staff in emergency (acute and chronic) as well as transitional programming. Responsible for WASH in new emergency responses and Medair’s French-language programmes. Assist in strengthening, supporting and standardizing the technical quality of Medair’s WASH sector programming at field and HQ levels to ensure meeting international WASH guidelines and best serving our beneficiaries.

Medair Headquarters

Medair Headquarters (HQ) provides operational guidance for country programmes and activities, along with both technical and compassionate support for our relief workers. Within our headquarters, we are also responsible for promoting the work of Medair to the world, to raise and manage the funds needed to run our life-saving and sustaining programmes. Our headquarters teams are also responsible for recruiting international and HQ staff, and like our field teams, we are committed to serve the world’s most vulnerable with practical and compassionate care.

Medair

Medair is a humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. We bring relief and recovery to people in crisis, regardless of race, creed or nationality. As signatories of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, we believe that aid should be given to everyone who is in need, regardless of political, social or religious viewpoint. We save lives in emergencies and then stay to help people recover from crisis with dignity—working side by side with communities to leave a lasting impact. We provide a range of emergency relief and recovery services: health care and nutrition; safe water, sanitation, and hygiene; shelter and infrastructure.

Workplace
Medair Headquarters, Ecublens, near Lausanne, Switzerland

Starting Date
As soon as possible

Initial Contract Details
Minimum 60% position, ideally 100%, estimated until 15th March 2016

Key Activity Areas

Planning and Implementation
• Review, implement, and monitor the WASH support strategy for Medair field programmes.
• Assist country programmes in the development of their WASH strategies.
• Develop and monitor metrics for activities under your responsibility from an organisational, portfolio, country, and project perspective.

Policy Development
• Assist in the development of WASH related organisational policies.
• Assist country programmes in development and review of any new country WASH policies or guidelines.



Quality Management, Technical Assistance and Research
• Provide technical WASH advice to the Head of Emergency Response, Head of Country Programmes and Field staff at all key stages of the project management cycle including needs assessment, technical strategy and design, implementation as well as sector specific monitoring and evaluation. This includes travel to field programmes as well as review of proposals, reports and surveys prior to external submission.
• Improve coherence between WASH projects across Medair country programmes.
• Establish and maintain a regular communication and exchange of information between HQ and Field WASH Advisors and Managers.
• Stay abreast of current best practice. Research and stay informed on academic and technical WASH issues, techniques, and guidelines to inform and improve programming.
Training
• Assist in developing and leading an annual WASH workshop for key field WASH staff.
• Assist in developing internal training materials and resources and providing training to staff at appropriate venues.
• Advise as requested on external WASH related training courses for staff.

Networking Management
• Develop and maintain WASH and relief oriented networks in order to share ideas, best practices and stay informed on current WASH and humanitarian aid trends.
• Assist in developing new institutional funding sources for WASH related activities.

Marketing
• Review and approve marketing material for your sector.
• Build our institutional profile by writing, reviewing, and supporting the development of technical articles for publication, speaking at professional conferences and events, and other appropriate means as time permits.
• Support the Marketing & Relationships Department in attracting interested major donors.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree plus Masters in WASH-related area e.g. Water & Environmental Sanitation, Management and / or Humanitarian Aid

Languages

• Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written)
• Strong working knowledge of French (spoken and written)

Experience / Competencies

• Min. 3 years’ experience managing WASH programmes in developing countries
• Min. 2 years’ experience managing and coordinating acute and chronic complex emergency responses, such as: water/sanitation related disease outbreaks, displaced populations and/or natural disasters
• Prior WASH experience in French speaking Africa desirable
• Demonstrated WASH technical expertise in humanitarian settings
• Demonstrated training skills; proven proposal writing and editing skills
• Strong ability to think strategically along with analytical skills
• Very flexible and resistant to stress
• Capable to develop and motivate people in a servant and supportive manner; familiar with inter-cultural differences

Medair Standard Working Requirements for the International Headquarters

• Committed Christians; commitment to the Medair values
• Reflect the vision and values of Medair when interacting with team members and external contacts
• At least one year of professional experience in a relevant field (more experience preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written)
• Working knowledge of French (spoken and written) for French-speaking roles
• Competent with MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Motivated by a spirit of service
• Solid team player

Benefits

• Salary commensurate with pay-grade of the position
• Travel expenses to country programmes (for staff who are required to make field visits)
• Annual leave; Accident insurance and pension; Death and disability insurance; Health insurance for loss of earnings
• The opportunity to work in a Christian organisation where your contributions make a difference for the world’s most vulnerable

HQ Working Conditions

• Preferably Swiss or eligible EU citizens, or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland.
• Possible travel to field for up to 2 - 3 weeks.

Application Process

Follow this link: www.medair.org/work-with-us, check if you fit our standard working criteria, then: apply for this vacancy (or another position that matches your profile).

Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed. Medair does not set closing / deadline dates for applications; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.

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