WASH Manager - SHF Project
Action Against Hunger Spain

Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organization committed to ending child hunger. We work in over 40 countries around the world, helping over 9 million people every year.

 


 Vacancy No: #
 Supervisor: Head of Base
 No. of Post: 1
 Duty Station: Kosti with required travel to field locations
 Duration: According to the project Duration .
 Closing Date: 15 August 2025

 
 Background:

Oversee the implementation and overall coordination of cholera response under SHF project in White Nile state, co-implemented with local NGO partners. Line - manage 6 WASH Officers (MoH seconded) at White Nile base. Contribute to strategy for the mission in coordination with base level colleagues and partner staff and local stakeholders. Support WN and SHF to explore / identify opportunities for long term, resilience, early recovery focused interventions.



 
 Duties and responsibilities:

Mission 1: Coordinate overall implementation of program and operations for SDCS project 

  • Be the initial focal point for management of the entire project cycle
  • The WASH PM will be responsible for leading and coordinating the design, implementation, and monitoring of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) programs in response to cholera outbreaks.
  • Provide technical guidance on WASH interventions in cholera response, ensuring alignment with global standards and best practices.
  • Design and implement WASH programs to prevent and respond to cholera outbreaks, including water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion.
  • Coordinate with government line ministries, INGOs, UN agencies and other stakeholders to ensure a unified response to cholera outbreaks.
  • Provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to local authorities and implementing partners. 
  • Collection of inputs, consolidation of, drafting and follow up on validation of technical agreements (with federal and state authorities) working with coordination and base teams 
  • Ensuring smooth partnership with local partner, including drafting of MoUs, budgets, detailed implementation plan for local partner.
  • Oversee adherence to Project Procurement Plan in collaboration with the logistics department in terms of timely raising of procurement requests related to the project activities and follow up until delivery, ensuring donor’s guidelines are respected in regard to items procurements
  • Do BFU follow up each month and ensure program and operations leads forecast timely 
  • Ensure donor’s guidelines are respected in regards to financial expenses
  • Highlight issues with budget vs expenditure with budget holder (for that budget line) in due time
  • Ensure overall monitoring (operational & financial, qualitative & quantitative) of SHF project with a particular focus on the deadlines, objectives and indicators.
  • Ensure regular field monitoring visits, often engaging MEAL;
  • Focal point for communications deliverables (biggest one, being the documentation of same beneficiaries). 

Mission 2: Focal point of MEAL activities under SHF with support of MEAL department 

  • Organize a kick-off and a close-out meeting, as well as a mid-term lesson learnt workshop
  • Design and ensure the maintenance and implementation of reporting and monitoring tools
  • Coordinate with MEAL department to develop and finalize project monitoring plan.
  • Ensure that project is on track in sense of indicators and immediate outcomes
  • Monitoring the project interventions on regular basis and find out the gaps, sharing the gaps with the staff and make a proper action plan
  • Share the findings in the forms of monitoring reports
  • Ensure beneficiaries are aware of ACF’s feedback and complaints response mechanisms and that these are accessible to targeted beneficiaries and communities
  • Support the MEAL Head of department to ensure that all beneficiaries’ complaints are addressed
  • Liaise with the MEAL Department for outcome-level analyses (quantitative and qualitative) of the project’s progress, beneficiary impact, and challenges from the field
  • Integrate MEAL recommendations into project implementation

Mission 3: Ensure reporting, capitalization and contribute to quality and accountability

  • Providing SHF with all relevant reporting documents requested from the field  
  • Provide a monthly narrative and quantitative update of project activities through the APR
  • Prepare donor reports with ensuring that all reports are prepared following donor’s guidelines, and respecting donor’s deadlines
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation and lessons learnt. 
  • Ensure the quality and timeliness of data received from the field in collaboration with MEAL department.
  • Collect and review and validate the different reports and deliverables of the project.
  • Compile all documents dealing with the essential techniques and methodologies involved in the project (including, when appropriate, beneficiary and distribution list etc..) for capitalization and audit purposes.
  • Implement the recommendations made because of internal and external assessments in the context of a specific work plan (quality control)

Mission 4: Monitor and update on ACTION AGAINST HUNGER possible interventions as per country strategy

  • Analyzing the humanitarian context and define local strategic objectives along with Head of Bases.
  • Collect information to identify humanitarian and developing programming gaps in area of intervention along with Head of Bases. 
  • Monitor and analyze key contextual indicators in the areas of intervention along with Head of Bases.
  • Brief DCD on possible interventions for long term resilience and early recovery focused projects.
  • Take notice of sectorial orientations of national strategy and understand implications for areas of intervention and activities and discuss with Khartoum coordination team in accordance. 
  • Identify the presence and the strategic orientations of other partners in the field with a view of improving coordination and effective working

Mission 5: Security, Safety, Access 

  • Monitoring the security environment in SHF project areas, along with the Head of Bases, and updating DCD and CD as required.
  • Monitoring the access constraints in SHF project areas, along with the Head of Bases, and updating DCD and CD as required.

 
 Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:

  • At least bachelor’s degree in public and environmental Health or relevant field; lengthy experience in role of Field Coordination or roles as Program Coordination
  • At least 5 years of experience in WASH program management, preferably in cholera response or similar public health emergencies required.
  • Strong knowledge of WASH technologies, including water treatment, sanitation, and hygiene promotion
  • Knowledge of DRM, Climate Change, Gender & Protection, MEAL 
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in managing Programs and Operations in humanitarian projects /programs preferably with an international NGO
  • Work experience in partnership with LNGOs would be an asset.
  • Prior INGO experience required  
  • Fluent written and oral English and Arabic mandatory
  • Perfect mastery of Word, Excel, Power Point

Remuneration package:

  • Contract period: 12 months renewable base on Action Against Hunger fund and performances
  • Salary/benefits: According to Action Against Hunger's salary scale and terms and conditions.
  • Base: Kosti, with required travel to field Locations where AAH operating .

Notes:

  • Candidates may be contacted for other suitable positions within Action Against Hunger.  
  • Due to the high-number of application received, only potential applicants will be contacted. 
  • Applicants must submit their applications, CV, ID ,Educational Certificates & Experience Certificates in one merged file through the following link:  http://employ.acf-e.org/index.php/positions/view/10711
    The organization is committed to the principles of non-discrimination and diversity and is particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people.

          In the process of recruitment, selection and appointment Action Against Hunger implement a range of procedures and actions                           including Criminal Background Checks/ International vetting/Certificate of good conduct to ensure children and vulnerable adults are               safeguarded and abuse is prevented









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