Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project Officer

Acción Contra El Hambre

Palestine 🇵🇸

Duration : 6
Start date : 01-Jun-2023

You’ll contribute to ending world hunger by …

  • Improving our capacity to monitor beneficiaries and manage projects. 1 Card 1 Beneficiary approach.
  • Defining and scaling intelligent nutrition Defining and scaling intelligent nutrition nutrition-sensitive interventions.
  • Improving our hypothesis formulation and analysis capacity.
  • R&D&I capacity development. Scaling up new solutions.
  • Joint management with the HR department of our teams’ skills development and talent.
  • Strengthening the dynamics of assistance and support for missions and programs.
  • Identification of alert markers at the implementation level. Defining scenarios of likelihood and decision making.

Key activities in your role will include

Objective 1: Project Coordination

  • Coordinate with duty bearers, beneficiaries, and key stakeholders to define appropriate technical designs.
  • Prepare preliminary technical design layouts and share them with relevant stakeholders.

Objective 2:  Project design, implementation and evaluation

  • Prepare the technical design for sewer and water networks and relevant WASH activities including:
    1. Technical drawings.
    2. Technical specifications and BoQs.
    3. Cost estimation.
    4. Technical annexes related to the bid documents.
  • Participate in preparing detailed technical design for other proposed activities using engineering software programs and prepare technical detailed drawings and specifications.
  • Implement the following: Beneficiary selection, field works, trainings, tenders’ preparations, community organization and all related works.
  • Follow up implementation of activities through community’s direct methodology when required and provide technical advice and feedback to the community during implementation as needed.
  • Conduct regular monitoring site visits to ensure that work is implemented according to the design.
  • Provide technical assistance to beneficiaries and counterparts when needed.  
  • Have the activity preliminary handover done with contractor and relative stakeholders.
  • Participate in the design and implementation of technical surveys or any other project identification study in collaboration and coordination with the Engineering Pool Manager.
  • Participate in data collection for Monitoring and Evaluation of results and objectives indicators.
  • Participate in contractor’s evaluations and provide technical recommendations on technical capacity needed and implemented methodology.
  • Support the technical team and provide technical recommendations and alternative technical solutions when needed.

Objective 3: Reporting  

  • Participate in writing technical documents related to design and implementation technical activities (Terms of Reference (ToRs), technical studies or surveys, tender reports, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), announcements, technical evaluation).
  • Write internal regular reports. 
  • Write minutes with conclusions, recommendations and action points resulting from meetings or field visits, to be shared with relevant colleagues and partners.

Do you meet the profile required criteria?

  • Bachelor’s degree in Civil engineering or any related Engineering field.
  • Construction and rehabilitation of WASH projects.
  • Proven experience in waste-water treatment plant (WWTP)
  • Minimum 2 years’ of experience in designing implementing, and supervision of WASH projects (especially the design of water and sewer networks).
  • Knowledge in humanitarian or emergency programming is a plus.
  • Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of programs/ activities is a plus.
  • Excellent communication and organization skills.
  • Flexibility and ability to work under pressure and team worker.
  • Valid driving license and proven driving skills.
  • Very good in reading, writing, and speaking both Arabic and English
  • WaterCAD, WterGEMS, SewerGEMS / Civil-3D and GIS are required in addition to MS Office applications.
  • Ability to travel in West Bank and stay overnight.

Our remuneration package:

Action Against Hunger is an equal opportunities employer. Women are encouraged to apply for this position

 Action Against Hunger has commitment to protect all persons we come into contact with through our work, including children and At-Risk adults. Action Against Hunger has ZERO TOLERANCE towards all forms of harm and abuse, including sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. We take concerns and complaints relating to Safeguarding issues involving our Staff, Associated Personnel, Partners and Suppliers very seriously and will take action to vigorously investigate and manage any violations or alleged violations of our policies.

We will only consider the candidacies received by our online service. Please click in the following link to access to the service: 

Applications will be accepted no later than 04th May 2023.

Only those candidates pre-selected for a test and an interview will be contacted

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.


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