Section/Unit: WASH
Grade Level: 13
Supervisor: WASH Manager
No. of Post: 1
Duty Station: Khartoum
Duration: I year with possibility of extension
Closing Date: 27 August 2026

Background

The WASH Officer is responsible for the technical design, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting of WASH infrastructure and activities under assigned projects. The role supports preparation of designs, BoQs, specifications, tender documents, and site supervision to ensure quality delivery. The position also supports WASH behaviour change activities to improve sanitation and hygiene practices, prevent WASH-related disease outbreaks such as cholera, and strengthen community capacity for sustainable use and management of WASH facilities.

Duties and responsibilities

1.Project planning and Implementation 

• Support day-to-day implementation of WASH project activities in line with the approved work plan, DIP, budget, donor requirements, and World Vision standards.

 • Prepare basic engineering designs and technical inputs for water supply and civil construction works, including drawings, BoQs, specifications, site measurements, and material estimates. Architectural skills will be an added advantage. • Supervise construction works at site level, ensuring contractors and community workers follow approved designs, quality standards, safety requirements, and agreed timelines. 

• Monitor progress of WASH infrastructure works, identify implementation challenges, and report issues promptly to the Project Coordinator for action. 

• Coordinate with project staff, partners, MOH/WES, local authorities, contractors, and communities to support smooth implementation, inspections, and handover of completed works. 

• Support implementation of sanitation and hygiene promotion activities, including community mobilization, household sanitation improvement, handwashing promotion, and safe water handling. 

• Prepare timely field updates, activity reports, site supervision reports, completion reports, and inputs for donor, HAC, and internal project reporting

2.Monitoring & Evaluations & reporting 

• Support timely and accurate internal and external WASH reporting, including weekly updates, monthly reports, quarterly reports, SitReps, annual reports, HAC bi-annual and annual reports. 

• Participate in baseline surveys, needs assessments, monitoring visits, inspections, and project evaluations to track progress, quality, impact, and donor compliance. 

• Monitor the implementation and quality of WASH activities, identify gaps and challenges, and provide timely updates and recommendations to the Project Project Coordinator and Base Manager Work closely with the M&E team, project staff, partners, and relevant sectors to strengthen planning, monitoring, data collection, documentation, and joint reporting processes. 

• Support proper documentation of project evidence, success stories, lessons learned, technical agreements, and partner reports, while building the reporting capacity of local partners and field teams.

Resource Acquisition 

• Participate in the development of timely and accurate funding proposals in line with donor requirements and World Vision standards, in collaboration with the Project Manager and relevant sector specialists. 

• Participate in field WASH assessments and provide accurate technical data, needs analysis, cost estimates, and field evidence required to develop competitive and winnable proposals. 

• Mobilize communities to contribute to project interventions, including labour, local materials, operation and maintenance support, and other agreed community contributions.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships 

• Support coordination with MoH, UNICEF, WES, government departments, UN agencies, and sector partners to ensure quality implementation, alignment, and effective collaboration in WASH activities. 

• Represent the project in relevant WASH coordination meetings, cluster meetings, field assessments, and partner engagements as assigned by the Project Coordinator or State WASH Coordinator and share key updates for follow-up action.

Capacity building 

• Build the capacity of WASH committees, community volunteers, key project staff, and NNGO partners on the management, operation, and maintenance of WASH facilities, including water chlorination, hygiene promotion, and basic facility monitoring.

 • Support training and coaching of partners and community structures in the implementation of WASH and construction activities to ensure quality, sustainability, and compliance with project standards.

Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required

Required Professional Experience

1. At least 5 years of field-based experience in WASH implementation, with a strong engineering background and experience working in conflict-prone or fragile contexts. 

2. Proficiency in engineering design software such as EPANET, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Civil 3D, or related tools for WASH and civil works design. 

3. Practical experience in implementing WASH project models, including sanitation, hygiene promotion, behaviour change, and community-based approaches. 

4. Experience supporting WASH assessments, proposal development, project reporting, and donor-compliant documentation. 

5. Experience mainstreaming gender, environment, peacebuilding, disability inclusion, and community accountability in project implementation. 

6. Experience coordinating with government authorities, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, private sector actors, and community structures.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

1.Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Water Engineering, Water and Environmental Sanitation Engineering, or a related field. 

2. At least 5 years of experience in WASH design and implementation, preferably with an INGO or NGO. 

3. Practical experience in civil works, water supply systems, sanitation, and hygiene-related infrastructure implementation.

 4. Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office, internet-based platforms, databases, and relevant engineering/design software. 

5. Good planning, organizational, and reporting skills. 

6. Ability to coach, train, and build the capacity of staff, partners, and community structures. 

7. Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic, both written and spoken. 

8. Experience working in cross-cultural and fragile or emergency contexts is an added advantage. 

9. Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work under pressure, deliver results with minimum supervision, and demonstrate an exemplary lifestyle within the local cultural context.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

1.Proficiency in Ms Word and advanced Excel, PowerPoint presentation 

2. Knowledge and experience in Communication for Development, including community engagement, hygiene promotion, behaviour change communication, and development of context-appropriate WASH messages.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

 Very frequent travels to field project sites and ability to live in hard conditions. Close interaction with project beneficiaries, partners, and government officials.

Language Requirements 

Excellent English and Arabic communication skills (oral and written).