Mercy Corps • Maiduguri, Nigeria • via UN Talent • Location: Konduga(1) Jere (1) - Borno State, Nigeria. • Position Status: Full-time regular employee

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. In Nigeria, Mercy Corps has worked since 2012 by focusing its programming on adolescent girls’ empowerment, economic development, conflict mitigation, and humanitarian response.

General Position Summary

Mercy Corps is looking for WASH Officer (Engineer) who will be responsible for contributing to the effective supervision and monitoring of the planned infrastructure activities across the locations. This includes ensuring technical excellence, adherence to national regulations, and compliance with donor standards. The Engineer will also be tasked with preparing comprehensive progress reports and ensuring that project implementation is responsive to and aligned with the needs and priorities of the target communities. The WASH Officer must ensure the smooth implementation of program objectives according to approved work plan, adherence to budgets, and within a level of quality that can be measured through M&E interventions. The WASH officer is expected to conduct the following tasks and to produce a comprehensive field report including the following:

• Support procurement of contractors – bids evaluation, due diligence, documentation
• Provide technical assistance in WASH construction activities including day-to-day monitoring/supervision of all infrastructure construction/rehabilitation works.
• Responsible for day-to-day quality checks and management of infrastructure activities, to ensure compliance and effective use of project resources, and suggesting results-based solutions to the program manager
• Preparation of designs and BOQs of WASH infrastructures
• Support the program manager in managing contractors by reviewing progress, measurement of works and ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and organizational policies and minimum standards
• Support the timely implementation of project activities per the agreed work schedule.
• Liaise with government and WASH stakeholders to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Collaborate with WASHCOMs to monitor and inspect the work prior to certification.
• Work closely with the communications team on the documentation and dissemination of lessons learnt, best practices and success stories from the project.
• Attendance of program update meetings and briefings.
• Contribute to the development of weekly/monthly/quarterly project updates/reports.
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, document filing, monitoring and evaluation systems (to track, analyze and report on results) for both internal and external use.

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