Technical Specialist (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene)

iDE is an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) headquartered in Denver, Colorado USA and operating in 11 countries around the world, including Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, iDE has been working since 1984, registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGO AB), registration number 173 dated 27th April, 1984. iDE is currently working in 27 Districts and 123 Upazilas on a wide variety of thematic areas including Food Security, Nutrition, WASH, Agriculture, Market Systems Development, Women Economic Empowerment. iDE Bangladesh is supported by USAID, SIDA, UNICEF, DFID, the European Commission and other multilateral donors working in in the country.

The Technical Specialist (WASH) is responsible for project implementation related to WASH intervention. He/she will contribute to program/project design, implementation, learning, and monitoring and evaluation through active collaboration with all team member and consortium members. He/she plays a technical leadership role within the response team, ensuring that WASH programs are delivered with high quality and meet recognized standards.

Position
   Technical Specialist (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene)
Number of Vacancies
   1
SALARY & BENEFITS
   Negotiable
Job Location
   Dhaka
Reporting Line
   Technical Lead
Contract Length
   As per organizational policy

Key Roles and Responsibilities
  • Provide strategic and technical leadership on implementation of WASH activities
  • Develop and maintain relationships and work closely with local WASH actors, including national and local government, private sector, community, NGOs, other donors
  • Work closely with technical staff and SBCC Specialist to integrate relevant WASH messaging into and manage the use of SBCC tools and materials across project;
  • Contribute to and provide inputs of annual work plan, required project reports, baseline data, tools and indicators for monitoring and evaluation, collection / sharing of lessons learned;
  • Document lessons learned related, evaluate impact and modify approaches as needed.
  • Help develop internal organizational WASH-related training and development of tools, guidelines, standards to improve program quality
  • Lead rapid prototyping, field testing, installation, and full-scale manufacturing of WASH based technologies
  • Support the implementation of different WASH-related interventions by the district field teams.
  • Provide guidance on the necessary steps and organization of activities
Education
  • Master’s degree from a recognized university in any of the following: Environmental Science, Hydrology or Environmental, Civil or Mechanical Engineering, Public Health or a related field associated with water supply, sanitation and hygiene behavior change
Work Experience
  • At least 5-8 years of experience working on market system development and technical assistance.
  • Prior experience in managing technology design and development process through conducting Human Centered Design (HCD) research
  • Prior experience in the WASH sector (mandatory)
  • Experience WASH initiatives in a combination of health and nutrition, livelihoods, gender, and agricultural development or similar Feed the Future (FtF) initiatives
  • Proven knowledge to incorporate qualitative analysis to develop design directions for solving the problems
  • Demonstrated ability to document information through materials such as case studies, narrative reports, fact sheets, infographics, blog post, catalog, and job aid
  • Expertise to facilitate training and to develop training manual for capacity building of field staff & implementation partners
  • Familiarity with rapid prototyping, field testing, installation, and full-scale manufacturing of WASH based technologies
Management and Programmatic Skills
  • Ability to responsibly manage funds, monitoring and team progress
  • Ability to plan and implemented iterative field level activities for market systems change (looking beyond the DIP)
  • Understands the facilitative role of the market development approaches
Personal
Skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
  • Ability to work with various national and international team members and flexibility to adapt to different work conditions
  • Ability to interact and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector and NGO partners
Physical and Language Skills
  • Ability to travel and undertake fieldwork in rural contexts
  • Strong written and oral communication skills in English and Bangla, including ability to present coherent and convincing messages to different audiences
  • Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office, email and the internet
  • Familiarity with internet based software systems such as Google App
  • Excellent presentation design skills with visual graphic for targeted audiences
Other Information and Conditions
  • The position would be the regular employment of iDE-B
  • The remuneration package, work days and deliverables might be change based on negotiation between iDE management and the contract
  • iDE reserves the right to terminate this agreement any time with the consultation of the employee as per HR policy
  • It is duty and accountability of the Technical Specialist (WASH) to maintain full confidentiality for sharing information, documents and others issues with other

Women are strongly encouraged to apply

iDE provides a women friendly work environment with flexible work arrangements, appropriate skill development opportunities and good career development potential for high performing individuals.

Please submit your recent CV (maximum 4 pages) with a cover letter describing motivation along with prescribed job application form to bangladesh-jobs@ideglobal.org.

Please mark the subject with preferred job location the position you applied for.

Only short-listed and qualified candidates will be notified.

Deadline: 19 December 2018 COB (4:30PM)