Member Emergency Team - Water & Sanitation Team Lead​/Coordinator

The Emergency Support Department (ESD) is part of the operations department and plays a key role in responding to humanitarian emergencies. The ESD conducts exploratory assessments; initiates and manages large scale or complex interventions to support people in precarious situations. The ESD provides support to existing country programs and the wider organisation to promote and improve emergency preparedness and response capacity.

The ESD consists of a headquarter based Emergency Desk (E Desk) of Emergency (Health) managers, an Operational Support Team (OST) of advisors and specialists, and an Emergency Team of approx. 25 country programme based medical and non-medical profiles. The ESD is accepting open applications at any time for any position.

(Applicants of various levels of experience are encouraged and considered. The successful candidate will be recruited at their experience level)

Emergency Team members spend about 90% of their workdays (excluding holidays) in country programme locations, travelling with short notice to any required area and approximately 10% at the headquarters (or working from home) for briefing/debriefing/trainings/working on specific tasks.

Reports to one of the Emergency Managers (either operational or health) within the Emergency Support Department in Amsterdam. During country programme assignments reports to the relevant Country Management Team (CMT) member. Maintains a functional line with the ESD Wat San Advisor and a technical line with the OCA Wat San Unit.

Defining, developing and coordinating Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (Wat San) responses according to needs, MSF essential and minimum requirements, and other MSF protocols, standards and procedures relevant to the improvement of the health and dignity of the target population.

• Carry out assessments in humanitarian emergencies.
• Contribute to the development of an overall intervention strategy in humanitarian emergencies.
• Prepare, plan, implement, monitor, and report on emergency water, hygiene, vector control, and sanitation interventions.
• Function flexibly as a Wat San Manager / Team leader or Wat San Coordinator as required in emergency or existing projects.
• Represent MSF as part of internal and external coordination platforms and bodies, e.g. the WASH Cluster.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of training programs for emergency and non-emergency staff, logistical, medical or Wat San.
• Contribute to advising and emergency interventions in existing OCA country programs.
• Contribute to the further development of MSF Wat San kits and other equipment innovations for country programmeuse.
• Contribute to evaluations/reviews carried out of emergency intervention projects.
• Contribute to the development of Wat San tools, guidelines and technologies employed during MSF's interventions.

• Adjusting / amending a Wat San strategy through different phases of a humanitarian / medical response.
• Ensuring collaboration with medical teams and providing input into Public Health aspects during all phases of a humanitarian response.
• Ensuring continued alignment of the Wat San response with medical / Public Health needs, based on medical and epidemiological data.
• Developing community participation strategies and engaging local authorities or other non-governmental actors to enhance cooperation to improve the response.
• Contributing to Wat San related advocacy initiatives.
• Leading and coordinating operational research / impact analysis and ensuring data collection, organization, and analysis.
• Contributing to institutional learning through evaluation of Wat San responses.
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