Job Title: WASH Field Engineer (Cluster Coordination)
No of Positions: 1
Duration: 31 December 2025
Locations: Jalalabad, Nangarhar
TASK TO BE PERFORMED
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- Act as a focal point of Client for WASH Cluster Coordinator to coordinate and collaborate with other WASH sector agencies, e.g. MoPH, MoE, ANDMA, NWARA, UWASS Municipal WASH departments etc.
- Actively conduct WASH Cluster monthly (and ad hoc meetings as necessary), this includes support drafting agenda, reviewing meeting minutes and facilitating meetings as necessary.
- Promote and secure commitments from partners in responding to needs and filling gaps through appropriate distribution of responsibilities.
- Support in maintaining the information on all current and potential WASH partners, their capacities and areas of work (including Who, What, Where and by When).
- Promote WASH emergency response actions while at the same time considering WASH within early recovery planning as well as prevention and risk reduction concerns.
- Ensure effective links with other Cluster and sector working groups for promoting DRR and resilience.
- Support in adaptation of WASH coordination mechanisms over time to reflect the capacities of local actors and the engagement of development partners.
- Participate in the inter-cluster coordination and other forums such as inter-agency and inter-sector rapid assessments missions and follow-up action.
- Represent WASH Cluster sectoral and inter-sector meetings in OCHA and other UN and Non-UN forums as agreed with the NWCC.
- Strengthen coordination with local authorities and other local actors.
- Support and strengthen appropriate links with local authorities, state institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors and facilitate appropriate coordination and information exchange with them.
- Support NWCC and co-leads in ensuring appropriate links with local authorities including ANDMA to foster good coordination and exchange information.
- Strengthening application of standards, promotion of participatory approaches and inclusion of crosscutting issues:
- Support WASH cluster/sector participants (especially the national/local agencies such as MRRD/PRRD) in awareness and application of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards, and commitments that the Government/concerned authorities have undertaken under international human rights law.
- Ensure partners are aware of and apply the SPHARE and National WinE Guidelines and Standards (being drafted) based on international standard in response planning and execution.
- Support partners (including PRRD) apply appropriate approaches and tools including participatory and community-based approaches in relation to humanitarian needs assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring, and responses.
- Support integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in WASH assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring, and response (e.g. age, diversity, environment, gender, HIV/AIDS and human rights, disability and accessibility (WASH inclusion), and environment, transparency and accountability
- Humanitarian Need Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
- Drawing from the lessons learned review WASH cluster progress and performance to inform the revision of strategies and action plans accordingly.
- Capacity building at sub-national level in WASH EPR.
- In coordination of NNWCC, lead the efforts of strengthening the WASH ERP capacity of the sub-national partners (especially PRRDs) and civil society with a particular focus on disaster and conflict prone provinces.
- Actively engaged in supporting the training of PRRD and other local partner staff in WinE based on capacity gap analysis and understanding of local needs.
- Observing neutrality, impartiality and inclusiveness in emergency preparedness and response.
- Working closely with NWCC and co-leads identify ways to reach out WASH response in areas that are considered high security risk and geographically remote and difficult to access.
- Any tasks assigned by client.
