National Coordinator,

We are looking four our projects in Bangladesh for a

National Coordinator WASH

Duration: Six months Position Start Date: September 2011 Location: Based in Dhaka, with 50% travel in the field Supervisor: Country Representative, Bangladesh Supervises: National staff in Bangladesh (WASH project teams) Context: Mother and Child Health & Nutrition (MCH/N) projects supported by WASH interventions Type of Post: Unaccompanied Deadline: Terre des hommes does not set closing date for this post; recruitment is ongoing until the position is filled

Contractual Conditions: Swiss salaried contract 3’025 CHF (~2’300€) < > 4’148 CHF (~3’100€)/month according to experience x 13, Annual Leave: 25 days per year. Contract includes also local accommodation and transportation, health and repatriation insurance, return flight. Details of conditions and advantages

General responsibilities:
• Manages all operations related to the implementation of Tdh’s WASH projects/programmes in Bangladesh, according to Tdh Thematic policies for MCH/N and WASH. • Facilitates professional systems for reporting, monitoring and contingency planning, for WASH and Disaster Risk Reduction projects. • Promotes Tdh’s interests in Bangladesh, including forging positive relations with the Swiss Development Cooperation and other bilateral and multi-lateral donors, NGO and UN networking groups. • Ensures that all Tdh policies (such as Child Protection Policy) are implemented byTdh team and all partners.

Project management: • Supervises the Resource Department Technical officer for WASH and the work of local staff per project approach, budget, timeline, etc. • Contributes to design and implements Monitoring & Evaluation systems and tools for all WASH and DRR project work to control quality, efficiency and effectiveness. • Contributes to strengthen the WASH team in Bangladesh through continuous training, experience exchange and provision of tools (i.e. hygiene promotion tools). • Develops and monitors quarterly and annual work plans. • Participates at developing new proposals and budgets for submission to Tdh’s Asia desk. • Identifies local funding sources for WASH projects. • Oversees reporting (monthly sitreps, donor monitoring reports, annual reports, capitalization of experience, etc.) by project teams and partners. • Facilitates context assessments at country and regional level, when required.

Finance, Administration, Human resources: • Reviews and analyzes expenditure of projects under her/his responsibility, with particular regard to efficiency, with the Administrative Manager. • Assures compliance with all Tdh policies (Child Protection, Personnel, Gender, “Whistle Blowing”, etc.). • Supports the management of Tdh’s WASH staff, including participation as needed in the following: promoting strategies for the capacity building of national staff; overseeing the updating of job descriptions; recruiting and conducting annual staff performance appraisal.

Communication, Knowledge Management: • Fosters positive external and internal communication (especially between Tdh Project Managers and WASH technical staff, between projects and partners, with Tdh Asia/Lausanne resource persons in MCH/N and WASH and with the Desk in Lausanne). • Backed by Tdh’s Resource Persons and Regional Advisors, engages in action-oriented research activities (disaster preparedness projects, publications, collaboration with research institutes, etc.). • Develops and updates Tdh’s contingency plan, as well as organizational briefs. • Facilitates experience capitalization workshops.

External coordination, representation: • Represents Tdh at meetings and fora organised by the GO/NGO/UN sectors. • Fosters positive relations with bi-lateral donors, including the SDC, and multi-lateral donors, as well as local authorities (Union Councils, Civil Surgeon, Dept. Public Health Engineers, Municipal authorities, etc.).

Safety and Security Policy: • Contributes to regular collection and analysis of security information related to Tdh intervention areas and national trends. • Implements the Tdh security guidelines. • Acts as focal point for security as mandated by Country Representative.

Child Protection Policy: • Commits to respect the Child Protection Policy. • Commits to ensure the best implementation possible of the Child Protection Policy in the country. • Commits to inform the head office and to deal with any case of any allegations or possibility of transgression, even potential, of the Child Protection Policy.

Profile: • Education: Bachelors or Masters in Public health engineering / or Hydrogeology with a primary degree in civil/public-health-engineering / or relevant social science field with a primary degree in civil/public-health-engineering or extensive professional training with recognized certificates. • Experience: seven years of practical experience in rural water supply, on site sanitation and hygiene promotion projects concerning assessment, design, logistical planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as management of technical staff. - Aptitude for community led / participatory approaches and WASH integrated as a part of health programming. Project experience in the following areas is highly relevant to the project duties: shallow and deep tube wells with hand pumps, pour flush (direct drop and offset) pit latrines, slow sand filtration or its modified forms such as pond sand filter or bio sand filter and urine separation dry compost toilet. - Experience also covering the following areas is desirable: septic tank including sludge and effluent disposal/on-site-treatment, iron filtration, chlorination including dosing units, assessment of the risks of contamination of groundwater from on-site sanitation, hygiene promotion, baseline and KAP survey, emergency WASH interventions including DRR, AutoCAD, solid waster management, WASH MCH integration, water testing with potable kits. • Language: English.

How to apply: 

We will only consider complete online applications which correspond to the required profile: http://tdh.ch/en/jobs