Water Quality Focal Point (Subject to donor approval)

Position Title: Water Quality Focal Point (Subject to donor approval)

2025-04-22 Paktika Full Time 18

Job Location:	Paktika
Nationality:	National
Category:	Program
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	As per IMC Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	IMC-PKA-34-2025
No. Of Jobs:	1
City:	Paktika Province

Organization:	International Medical Corps
Years of Experience:	• 2+ years of experience in WASH-related construction/rehabilitation or 1+ years of experience in water quality testing and analysis within UN agencies, government institutions, or international/National Non-governmental organizations. • High Preference w
Contract Duration:	Project Base
Gender:	Male/Female
Education:	• Bachelor’s degree in water resource engineering, environment engineering, environmental sciences, water technology, hydrogeology, Food Science, Food Technology, Civil Engineering, or relevant water-related engineering fields.
Close date:	2025-04-22

About International Medical Corps:

Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Descriptions:

Job Purpose:

This position is responsible for ensuring safe drinking water and information about water contamination in targeted communities in Paktika province through strong coordination with the WASH and other project teams.To ensure proper water testing, Highlight & advice on Water Contamination & ensure provision of safe drinking water.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Collection of Water Samples from the Water supply Sources and Storage Tanks for testing of physical, chemical, and biological parameters and compare the result with WHO and ANSA standards.
Conduct field visits for continuous monitoring and to prevent the potential for pollution or contamination.
Conduct Chlorination of water points within the targeted communities.
Provide emergency response technical support, chlorination of water points, distribution of soap, and water quality analysis during the AWD/Cholera outbreaks.
Provide technical support to the IMC-related health facilities.
Support Health & Hygiene workers in preparing WASH and health-related soft interventions and, guide them to some basic key wash interventions to educate communities on the protection of safe water, and storage.
Chlorination and disinfection of water sources at the time of new installation repair, and rehabilitation phases.
Work closely with the Hygiene promotion and health teams, creating awareness among the community about proper care and maintenance of drinking water sources, and storing and using water efficiently.
Documentation and reporting of progress, challenges, and lesson learning for future implementation for similar projects and accountability.
Prepare weekly and monthly work plans and submission of the weekly and monthly reports to the WASH Officer.
Assist in other job-relevant and office duties requested by the Technical /Field supervisor.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles, and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in water resource engineering, environment engineering, environmental sciences, water technology, hydrogeology, Food Science, Food Technology, Civil Engineering, or relevant water-related engineering fields.

Experience:

2+ years of experience in WASH-related construction/rehabilitation or 1+ years of experience in water quality testing and analysis within UN agencies, government institutions, or international/National Non-governmental organizations.
High Preference will be given to those who have skills and demonstrated experience in water quality testing /analysis.

Competency:

Leadership: Can engage in leadership and coordination.

Problem-solving: Provides solutions to problems.

Relationships: Has good interpersonal relationships with (Project engineers, community leaders, supervisors, other actors, etc.).

Adaptability: Easily adapts to the work routine, adaptability to live and interact with project staff, and capacity and ability to live and/or work in environments where projects are implemented.

Professionalism: Has the knowledge and understanding of project survey, drawings, design, estimation, and implementation strategies and approaches and project monitoring systems. Ability to think critically, work under pressure, meet commitments/deadlines, and show persistence in facing challenges.

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others and shows a real commitment to maintaining open communication with the client and team members.

Teamwork: Committed to working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve project tasks for the team. Willing to learn from others and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Flexibility/adaptability: This requires the candidate to have the sufficient capacity to adapt to the IMC work methodology and different work environments (office and field) that the candidate might have later during a mission.

Important Point: You will be asked to travel or be deployed anywhere within the program area to perform services. There may be some insecure areas where you may need to travel and perform the activity without any hesitation in coordination with the security department.

Submission Guidelines:

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document.

Please note that:

IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

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Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.