Senior Project Officer - WASH

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level technical leadership for integrated Shelter-WASH planning, ensuring compliance with national and cluster standards.
• Lead the technical design review for all infrastructure, including shelters, water systems, and sanitation facilities.
• Ensure compliance with Afghan Building Code, ES/NFI guidelines, MRRD manuals, Sphere standards, and AHF requirements.
• Lead development of BoQs, engineering drawings, assessments, and quality benchmarks.
• Serve as the technical focal point for quality assurance, risk mitigation, and environmental safeguards.
• Conduct and supervise WASH needs assessments, including water source evaluations, sanitation coverage, hygiene behavior surveys, and beneficiary selection in coordination with clusters and local authorities.
• Provide technical oversight for new construction/rehabilitation of water supply systems, construction of sanitation facilities, and design/rollout of hygiene promotion campaigns.
• Supervise and guide two WASH Engineers, hygiene promoters, and community mobilizers, ensuring quality technical implementation and capacity building of staff.
• Ensure WASH/Shelter interventions mainstream protection, gender, disability inclusion, and environmental considerations as per AHF and Cluster standards.
• Coordinate with logistics, procurement, and finance teams to ensure timely delivery of WASH supplies, construction materials, and construction support.
• Monitor implementation closely through regular site visits, ensuring quality control, adherence to technical specifications, and accountability to beneficiaries.
• Actively represent IRW in WASH and ESNFI regional Cluster and relevant coordination forums at provincial and regional levels, sharing updates to avoid duplication and ensure harmonization.
• Prepare and submit timely technical and narrative reports to the Provincial Manager (administrative line) and Senior Program Officer (Shelter and Infrastructure) for technical oversight, ensuring compliance with AHF requirements.
• Ensure reporting is in line with AHF standards, including submission of 5
  
  Ws to the WASH Cluster, situation reports, progress updates, and donor-specific reporting formats.
• Provide inputs for donor reporting on indicators, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned; ensure timely documentation of success stories and case studies.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with communities, CDCs, local authorities, and humanitarian partners to ensure acceptance, ownership, and sustainability.
• Support accountability mechanisms, including feedback and complaint response systems, to ensure transparency and beneficiary satisfaction.
• Integrate MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) systems into WASH interventions, ensuring regular data collection, beneficiary feedback, and documentation of learning.
• Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure tracking of indicators, water quality monitoring, hygiene promotion monitoring, and evaluation surveys aligned with AHF and Cluster requirements.
• Prepare RH selection criteria and ensure to meet and adhere to donor and WASH cluster requirements.
• Perform other tasks assigned by line management (technical and administrative) relevant to enhancing the quality and effectiveness of the WASH response.

It is essential that the post holder shows a good understanding and sympathy with Islamic values and principles as well as commitment to Islamic Relief World wide's vision, mission and core values.

• Graduate from Civil Engineering Faculty or equivalent Degree in Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering.
• Understanding and ability to smoothly design water supply networks using Water GEMS, AutoCAD, and similar software tools.
• At least 3-5 years of proven technical supervision experience in WASH interventions, preferably in emergency/earthquake contexts.
• Fluency in English, both in verbal communication and writing.
• Previous successful experience implementing WASH projects funded by AHF/UNOCHA or other humanitarian donors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of WASH Cluster standards, water supply systems, sanitation infrastructure, and…