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ER-032: Emergency WASH Engineer for Health Care Facilities
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Department:Emergency Response Team
  
Essential Job Duties/Scope of Work:
***NOTE*** - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.



JOB SUMMARY
The WASH Engineer for Health Care Facilities main tasks lie in the technical assessment, analysis and prioritization of urgent WASH needs at health care facilities (both in- and outpatient of various capacities) to allow for safe and high quality health care delivery, as well as the designing, implementation and coordination of any such intervention, and the training of health facility medical and support staff in relevant WASH topics, including appropriate health care waste management.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Assessment
• Provide WASH expertise in technical needs assessments and analysis at health care facilities, and surrounding communities
• Conduct initial rapid assessment of current situation in collaboration with health care facility management and staffs, and affected population; determine priorities and immediate activities and resources
• Represent International Medical Corps to stakeholders and Governmental and non-Governmental agencies, including relevant Ministries and Clusters
• Assess in-country resources and capacities (human, material and financial) for response with relevant staff and agencies

2. Program Design
• Define scale, aims and objectives of the overall WASH response at health care facilities in accordance with relevant standards.
• Design appropriate, where and as necessary phased, technical interventions to ensure safe and high quality health care delivery at facilities, including in preparation for and during infectious disease outbreak response
• Select and design adequate water supplies for health care facilities including source selection (ground water, surface water), abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution for new systems and/or the rehabilitation of old systems.
• Select and design the most appropriate form of sanitation system (to include excreta disposal, vector control, health care waste treatment and disposal, drainage) taking full account of local conditions, resources, customs and cultural norms.
• Ensure that issues of protection, gender, infection control, environmental protection, operation and maintenance and sustainability are factored into the programme design.
• Ensure WHO minimum standards both qualitative and quantitative are considered and any departures documented.
• Develop letters of intent, concept papers, budgets and proposals in respect of the above.

3. Response Management and Implementation
• Plan and manage WASH interventions at health care facilities in a phased and prioritised manner with full consultation and co-ordination with relevant International Medical Corps’ staff and other agencies both governmental and non-governmental.
• Organise with the logistics and finance departments materials and support needed for all activities.
• Build a technical support team that has the capacity to respond to outbreaks, and assist in hiring and training as needed.
• Design and develop appropriate supervisory, monitoring and evaluation systems for WASH interventions.

4. Information and Co-ordination
• Provide regular updates to supervisor and team on progress, priorities and constraints – verbally and in writing.
• Represent International Medical Corps to governmental and non-governmental groups as needed and agreed with the supervisor
• Represent International Medical Corps in WASH and relevant emergency related Cluster activities.
Qualifications:
SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:
• Engineering degree (emphasis in Water / Sanitation)
• 5+ years of relevant work experience (minimum of 1 year in health care facilities in humanitarian situations)
• Experience in outbreak response, including rapid assessments and needs analysis
• Sound knowledge of adequate WASH-related infection control measures at health care facilities
• Proven training and capacity building experience
• Ability to work in extreme conditions
• Profound cross-cultural awareness
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations
• Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources
• Sense of humor
• Fluency in English (both oral and written skills)
  
    
 

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