Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Purpose:

Under the WASH Technical Manager's direct supervision, the WASH officer (Design) will contribute to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the WASH component of the Program in the targeted areas. This position will directly supervise WASH staff. The holder of this position will link, build, and strengthen relationships in the field with communities, local leaders, Government authorities, NGOs, and other partners.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Conduct site assessments of damaged water supply systems in targeted villages.
• Prepare detailed technical designs and specifications for repair works.
• Ensure designs meet quality and safety standards.
• Conduct technical and social surveys and design community-based water supply systems using EPANET, Water GEMS, and other relevant softwares, ensuring compliance with MRRD and WASH Cluster standards.
• Plan, organize, and implement WASH activities at the field level in coordination with PRRD and WASH Technical Manager at the Kabul level.
• Plan, organize, and implement WASH interventions, including water supply activities, KAP surveys, hygiene promotion, and waste clean-up campaigns in schools, health facilities, and community settings.
• Supervise, monitor, and evaluate all WASH activities to ensure quality implementation and adherence to project standards.
• Oversee construction and rehabilitation works in targeted areas to ensure compliance with technical specifications and quality standards.
• Track project indicators and progress through regular updates of PMTs and follow-up with field-level WASH project staff.
• Coordinate with the Logistics team to ensure clear understanding and proper functioning of procurement, transportation, storage, communications, and asset management systems.
• Ensure timely procurement and delivery of goods and materials to project sites.
• Actively participate in program planning and budgeting processes to support effective project implementation.
• Prepare monitoring reports and develop follow-up action plans using appropriate M&E tools and feedback mechanisms for each monitoring visit.
• Establish and maintain effective coordination and communication systems among all project staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.
• Organize and facilitate training sessions for community hygiene promoters.
• Provide direct supervision, technical guidance, and on-the-job support to community hygiene promoters during field activities.
• Oversee community-level reporting, including the distribution of tools, data collection, review, and feedback, ensuring timely submission to the Project Manager.
• Regularly review and assess the quality of completed work to ensure it meets project objectives, standards, and targets.
• Contribute to the preparation of monthly project pipelines and activity plans.
• Represent International Medical Corps and its projects at community, district, and provincial levels by attending coordination meetings, sharing updates, and providing feedback as required.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles, and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Qualifications:

BSc degree in civil engineering, water resource engineering, or related engineering fields.

Experience:

• At least 4 years of demonstrated experience in designing, managing, or leading WASH projects in communities, health facilities, or schools, within UN agencies, government institutions, or international/national NGOs.
• Strong and proven track record in the surveying and designing of community-based water supply systems.
• Excellent management skills.
• Experience in project, logistics, and admin Management.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, representation, and negotiation skills
• Goal-oriented with the ability to work under pressure, independently, and with limited supervision Experience in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene assessment methodologies.

Competency :

Leadership: Can engage in leadership and coordination.

Problem-solving: Provides solutions to the problems.

Relationships: Has good interpersonal relationships with (Projects engineers, community leaders, supervisors, other actors, etc.).

Adaptability: Easily adapts to the work routine, adaptability to live and interact with project staff, and capacity and ability to live and/or work in environments where projects are implementing.

Professionalism: Has the knowledge and understanding of project survey, drawings, design, estimation and implementation strategies and approaches and project monitoring systems. Ability to think critically, work under pressure, meet commitments/deadlines, and show persistence in facing challenges.

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others and shows a real commitment to maintaining open communication with the client and team members.

Teamwork: Committed to working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve project tasks for the team. Willing to learn from others and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Flexibility/adaptability: This requires the candidate to have the sufficient capacity to adapt to the IMC work methodology and different work environments (office and field) that the candidate might have later during a mission.

Important Point: You will be asked to travel or be deployed anywhere within the program area to perform services. There may be some insecure areas where you may need to travel and perform the activity without any hesitation in coordination with the security department.

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

If the link above does not work by clicking on it, please copy and paste it in the browser address bar.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10yhwgumHJ4-0CIugv1xqhCDlGXWzs6Vszpmhqu_KqvA/edit

Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Or afcbfrm@InternationalMedicalCorps.org

 Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Submission Email:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10yhwgumHJ4-0CIugv1xqhCDlGXWzs6Vszpmhqu_KqvA/edit