Job Title: WASH Technical Assistant
Location: Katsina
Reporting to: WASH Engineer
Key Responsibilities
Objective 1: Support in supervision of water and sanitation construction activities:
- Fully participate in and/or facilitate technical assessments
- To visit sites and ensure quality assurance of construction being delivered and adherence to design specifications
- To make sure that the technical activities are up to the Action Against Hunger standards (WASH package)
- To visit regularly the field activities
- Continually assess emergency needs, as requested.
- Ensure that work meets with SPHERE minimum standards
- Assist and participate in community mobilization
- Assist all targeted health facilities and communities on water chlorinating and monitoring.
Objective 2: Assist in training and building the capacity of stakeholders:
- Assist in preparing training tools on relevant technical topics and conduct trainings for stakeholders with emphasis on water quality monitoring and sustainability through operation and maintenance of WASH facilities
- Assist the WASH technical officer in the development of technical guidelines and tools
- Capacity building through support training, mentoring and coaching of volunteers and WASH management committee.
Objective 3: Coordinate with internal staff and local stakeholders to ensure smooth project implementation:
- Liaise closely with the WASH hygiene team throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of the WASH technical activities. Hygiene promotion is a vital element in such infrastructure activities, especially in cholera and other emergency responses
- Team with local Government to exchange information on WASH technical implementation status.
Objective 4: To communicate & report on WASH technical activities:
- To participate in base meetings
- To submit technical report and consumption report to the WASH technical officer (Upon request)
- Assist in the preparation of weekly report
- Provide full support to WASH technical officer in maintaining regular contact with local stakeholders
- Continue monitoring and recording water quality results of water point in targeted location
- Ensure mapping of all WASH infrastructure on database and water.
Position Requirements
- Minimum of National diploma in Water Engineering, Hydrology, Civil Engineering, Building and other related fields with minimum of 2 years’ field experience
- Previous experience in supervising drilling and construction activities
- Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
- 2 years relevant work experience
- Microsoft Office and designing software Skills (Excel, Power Point, Word)
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Fluency in Hausa and English
- Commitment to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy
- Previous experience of work in the humanitarian sector
- Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
- Previous experience with Action Against Hunger.
Application Closing Date
9th November, 2026 at 05:00 pm (Nigerian Time).
How to Apply
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