Summary Table

Summary of position

WASH Support Officer should be responsible for carrying out the major roles as below:

• Responsible for providing technical and facilitation support to all Municipality WASH teams, WUSC’s and Caretakers within their designated area of responsibility.
• Responsible for acting as a funding facilitator for Municipalities and WUSC’s in the event of Small or Major repairs or when rehabilitation of water supply infrastructure is required.
• Responsible for supervising and supporting the collection and reporting of monthly functionality data for all taps in their jurisdiction, and for the maintenance of up-to-date water infrastructure inventories and key contact lists for all Municipalities and WUSC’s under their responsibility.

Reports: Provincial Focal Person for the SSC in the Ministry of Water Resource and Energy Development (MoWRED),Birendranagar, Surkhet, Karnali Province

Specific Job Responsibilities/ Major Activities

• Responsible for creating and maintaining strong professional working relationships with all levels of government (Federal, Provincial, Municipal), as well as with WUSC and community organisation.
• Maintain knowledge and compliance of new updated policies and procedures related to the Nepal water sector
• Providing continuous technical support and assistance to all Municipal WASH teams, to ensure adherence to the SSC MoU on sustainable O&M of water supply infrastructure.
• Assist in the maintenance of a full inventory of Municipal level water supply infrastructure for each Municipalities under the SSC’s jurisdiction.
• Supervise the monthly collection, reporting, collation and distribution of up-to-date functionality data for all taps at WUSC, Municipal and Provincial level.
• Ensure the regular reporting of monthly functionality data to NWASH for the updating of the national inventory.
• Work with Municipality WASH teams each month to analyze functionality data to identify all necessary repairs and allocate the correct actor to facilitate the repair.
• In the case of Major repairs and Rehabilitations act as facilitator between actors to ensure the smooth transition of the requisite funds and technical support required to action the work.
• Carry out at least one field visit to each Municipal WASH office each year to help resolve issues, provide technical assistance, and maintain good working relationships between all actors in the network.
• Assist the Municipal WASH teams in tracking and reporting the performance of all WUSC’s against the pre-agreed performance benchmarks.
• Tracking and reporting on the performance of all Municipalities against the pre-agreed performance benchmarks and maintaining a performance record to track project progress and impact.

Required Education, Experience, Skills, and Competencies

1. Education

• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering or Diploma in Civil Engineering with minimum 3 years of experience of rural water supply system and sanitation sector

2. Experience

• Experience in the maintenance of water supply infrastructure and/or in monitoring and implementation of water supply and sanitation activities in rural areas of Nepal.
• Knowledge of Nepal water sector policy and rural water supply management approaches in Nepal.
• Experience in data management and data analysis

3. Skills and Social Competences

• Energetic and having passion for all kinds of water supply schemes and sanitation.
• Understanding and experience of local mechanism and experience of water and sanitation community infrastructure.
• Commitment towards gender equality and social inclusion.
• Result oriented personality/maintaining deadlines.
• Good interpersonal, intercultural competencies.
• Fluency in Nepali and English, both written and spoken.
• High level of computer skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
• Competent in basic data analysis and report writing

4. Duty Station and field visits

• Based in the MoWRED, Province office in Birendranagar, Surkhet, with some field work as required

5. Salary and Benefits: 

• To be decided based on level of experience