The WASH & Emergency Program Officer oversees humanitarian emergency and WASH programs, and is responsible for overall design, implementation, and monitoring of emergency and WASH projects. The WASH and Emergency Program Officer provides leadership in mobilizing resources and organizing humanitarian emergency response including initiating, planning, launching, monitoring and closing all emergency response activities.
He/she is also responsible for providing technical leadership for project design and implementation, and providing technical guidance to project teams during emergency response operations.
At the meantime, the WASH & Emergency Program Officer regularly coordinates with relevant government departments and line ministries at all levels to ensure smooth implementation of projects. The position is based in Kabul with travel extensively to the field.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in mobilizing resources and organizing humanitarian emergency and WASH response.
- Initiate, plan, launch, monitor and close AFV emergency response activities.
- Provide technical leadership in developing technical project documents for WASH and emergency response projects.
- Provide technical guidance to project teams during emergency response and WASH activities in collaboration with line manager.
- Contribute to fundraising initiatives
- Write proposals and develop project technical documents.
- Manage and coordinate the delivery of humanitarian emergency response and WASH assistance according to international SPHERE and Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Develop project monitoring plans ensuring that qualitative and quantitative indicators align with project milestones and donor requirements.
- Conduct needs assessments and baseline surveys to assess needs and gaps in affected areas.
- Coordinate with government agencies and other coordination bodies to monitor emergency and need situations and adopt appropriate response modality based on good quality assessments.
- Represent AFV in meetings and coordination platforms, liaising with authorities, relevant clusters, UN agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
- Prepare reports and updates on emergency and WASH response activities, ensuring timely and accurate information sharing.
- Develop project action plans and closely work with project teams on provincial level to ensure smooth implementation of all activities.
- Supervise project teams with technical and administrative support on field level.
- Develop a roadmap for conducting needs assessment and beneficiary selection.
- Oversee day to day field activities and data collection according to standards by field staff
- Conduct regular visits to project sites for quality assurance and community engagement.
- Develop and maintain good working relationship with all stakeholders.
- Coordinate program activities with relevant line ministries as required.
- Monitor project activities and ensure all activities are on track and are reaching the most vulnerable beneficiaries.
- Prepare and document project results and impact stories.
- Provide good quality progress reports, and ensure timely submission of reports to relevant clusters through report hub