Job of Wash and Shelter Specialist Cameroon Norwegian Refugee Council
As WASH & Shelter Specialist you will provide technical oversight and strategic direction to Country and Area offices to further the development of the WASH & Shelter Core Competency (CC). You will also lead the strategic direction and strengthen the technical quality of the NRC’s Shelter and WASH programme in Cameroon.
Additionally, you will be responsible for supporting the WASH and Shelter projects implementation at field level. You will be expected to travel within the country to provide quality assurance for all projects, develop a collaborative country strategy, capacity build staff through mentoring and training to increase their technical capacity, and develop a donor strategy to further grow the program.
Professional Competencies
- Minimum 3 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
- Fluency in French and English, both written and verbal.
- Minimum 2 years of WASH and/or Shelter expertise (as Specialist/PDM or Project Manager)
- Master’s degree or similar in relevant fields.
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
- This position requires 60% travel in field offices.
Behavioural competencies
- Empowering and building trust.
- Influencing.
- Initiate action and change.
- Handling insecure environments
- Strategic thinking.
- Analyzing.
Related skills, knowledge and experience
- Technical knowledge and experience of behaviour change process in a humanitarian context
- Technical knowledge and experience of the community engagement process and integration of gender and diversity in program design.
- Experience implementing cash and market project approaches.
- Knowledge of House, Land and Property rights applied to shelter and WASH responses.
- Knowledge of the Central African region.
- Experience in team capacity building.
- Experience in partnership-based programming for WASH and Shelter
- Experience with a diverse range of donors and funding opportunities, including humanitarian, durable solutions, and development-oriented programming.
- Experience with management of borehole programs is desired.
- Experience with alternative WASH in a humanitarian context an asset.
- Understanding of SPHERE and INEE Minimum Standards is required.
- Understanding of environmental and climate tools like NEAT+ is an asset.
Duties
- Develop partnership inclusive WASH and Shelter CC strategies, technical guidance and Macro Logframes that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities.
- Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports.
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within CC, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
- To be responsible for the support to colleagues and partners with WASH and Shelter responsibilities and develop relevant WASH and Shelter training including coaching of WASH and shelter staff and partners to ensure they meet NRC’s WASH and Shelter standards. Also contribute to the induction of new staff with a role in the WASH and Shelter processes.
- Provide technical direction and project implementation support to the implementation team.
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from CC implementation, and incorporate them in CC and staff development processes.
- Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures.
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors.
Duty station: Yaounde, Cameroon
Contract: 12 months Resident/National Contract
National Salary&benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s salary scale.
