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Plan International

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5001 - 10000 employees

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Plan International is a global organization dedicated to advancing children's rights and equality for girls. Operating in over 80 countries, it focuses on providing inclusive, quality education, youth empowerment, protection from violence, and addressing sexual health and rights. Plan International works to support children and communities in emergencies, fostering a world where every child has the opportunity to thrive.

📋 Description

• Lead or support rapid WASH needs assessments, technical assessments, service mapping and market assessments. • Analyse WASH risks, service gaps, disease transmission risks, gender and protection concerns, accessibility barriers and priority needs of affected populations. • Support the development of evidence-based emergency WASH response strategies, workplans, response plans and budgets. • Ensure that programme design is aligned with Sphere Standards, the Core Humanitarian Standard, national standards, cluster guidance and relevant public-health requirements. • Identify opportunities for integrated programming with Health, Nutrition, Protection, Education, Shelter and Cash and Voucher Assistance interventions. • Provide technical oversight for emergency water supply interventions, including water-source assessment, water trucking, water treatment, chlorination, household water treatment, water-quality monitoring, storage, distribution systems and water-point rehabilitation. • Provide technical guidance on emergency sanitation, including household, communal, institutional and school sanitation, excreta management, drainage, solid-waste management and vector-control measures. • Support hygiene-promotion and social and behaviour change activities, including handwashing, safe water handling, household water treatment, menstrual health and hygiene, and community engagement approaches. • Provide technical guidance on WASH in health-care facilities, infection prevention and control, outbreak preparedness and response. • Review and support the development of technical drawings, Bills of Quantities, specifications, scopes of work, technical evaluation criteria and contractor deliverables. • Ensure that infrastructure and service interventions are safe, technically appropriate, accessible, climate-informed and feasible for operation and maintenance by communities, local authorities or service providers. • Establish or strengthen practical quality-assurance mechanisms, including water-quality testing, construction supervision, functionality monitoring, hygiene-promotion monitoring and post-distribution monitoring. • Support Country Offices to establish emergency WASH response systems, including technical workplans, supply plans, activity trackers, monitoring tools, reporting templates and risk registers. • Work closely with Supply Chain and Procurement teams to support procurement planning, technical specifications, supplier engagement, quality checks and delivery follow-up. • Support field teams to establish appropriate systems for stock management, distribution tracking, water-quality monitoring, facility operation and maintenance, complaints handling and community feedback. • Provide hands-on support during the initial phase of an emergency response, including field visits, technical troubleshooting, start-up planning and mentoring of WASH staff. • Identify operational bottlenecks, implementation risks and corrective actions, and communicate these promptly to relevant management and programme teams. • Represent Plan International in national and sub-national WASH Cluster meetings, technical working groups, inter-agency coordination platforms and sector coordination mechanisms as requested. • Ensure timely submission of 3Ws/4Ws, activity updates, technical information and response data to relevant coordination platforms. • Maintain constructive working relationships with government authorities, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, service providers, local partners and community structures. • Support coordination with Health, Protection, Education, Shelter and other sectors to promote integrated, safe and accountable responses. • Contribute to technical discussions, advocacy messages and coordination products that advance the quality, inclusion and sustainability of emergency WASH services. • Contribute to the development of emergency concept notes, proposals, budgets, logframes, technical narratives and donor reports. • Ensure that WASH proposals are technically sound, realistic, costed appropriately and responsive to assessed needs. • Support the development of monitoring frameworks, indicators, targets, reporting systems and learning products. • Review programme reports and provide technical input on progress, challenges, adaptations, risks and lessons learned. • Contribute to after-action reviews, response evaluations, learning workshops and preparedness planning processes. • Ensure that all emergency WASH interventions address the specific needs, safety concerns and priorities of girls, adolescent girls and young women. • Promote disability inclusion, age inclusion, menstrual health and hygiene, protection-sensitive design and equitable access to services. • Ensure meaningful participation of women, girls, boys, men, persons with disabilities and marginalised groups in assessments, planning, implementation and monitoring. • Support the integration of community feedback and complaints mechanisms into WASH interventions.

🎯 Requirements

• Progressively responsible experience in WASH programming, including solid experience in humanitarian or emergency-response settings. • Demonstrated experience in emergency WASH assessments, programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. • Proven technical experience in emergency water supply, water treatment, water-quality monitoring, sanitation, hygiene promotion and WASH infrastructure. • Experience supporting public-health emergency responses, including outbreaks, displacement, conflict, flooding, drought or other humanitarian crises. • Experience developing technical specifications, Bills of Quantities, scopes of work, procurement documentation and contractor supervision arrangements. • Experience in donor proposal development, budgeting and reporting. • Experience representing an organisation with clusters, government authorities, UN agencies, donors, NGOs and other external stakeholders. • Experience managing, mentoring or strengthening the capacity of WASH staff and local partners. • Experience working in complex, insecure or resource-constrained environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Must be available to deploy within 72 hours of confirmation, or as soon as visa and travel clearance are obtained. • Must be willing and able to travel and work in challenging, insecure, remote or resource-constrained environments. • May be required to work outside normal working hours, including evenings, weekends and public holidays, in order to meet emergency-response requirements.