Water and Sanitation/Public Health Engineer
Overall Job Purpose
The Water and Sanitation Engineer is responsible for the implementation and management of Caritas Kenya public health programme, designing the response, coordinating policy, ensuring best practice and a commitment to Caritas Internationalis’ principles and values.
Reporting to: Caritas Kenya Director
Specific objectives:
- To
carry out the selection, design and construction of water systems, using
ground water or surface water, including abstraction, storage, treatment
and distribution for new systems or rehabilitation of existing systems.
- To
select, design and implement the most appropriate form of sanitation
system, in consultation with the beneficiaries, which includes excreta
disposal, refuse disposal, vector control and drainage.
- The
work will include management and administrative duties and co-ordination
with other members of the project and with staff of other organisations
- To
report regularly, verbally and in writing to the Programme
Coordinator/Director of Caritas
- To
represent Caritas to other NGO’s, agencies and Government authorities
where requested.
- To
order equipment as required. Occasionally to organise local purchasing and
to keep accounts.
- To
train and brief Caritas staff and partners on public health engineering
issues as needed
- To
brief press, media, other agency staff as agreed with the
Director/Programme Coordinator and CI Secretariat.
- To
ensure that all programmes take gender issues fully into account. This
includes the introduction of mechanisms to enable women to participate in
decision making around public health engineering issues.
Profile
- A
suitable qualification in any discipline relating to Public Health
Engineering.
- Practical
experience in developing countries in appropriate water supplies,
sanitation and hygiene promotion. It is desirable that some of this should
have been in emergency relief programmes. The post holder should have a
good understanding of the public health needs of poor rural and urban
communities and of appropriate ways of tackling them. The post holder must
be aware of and sensitive to the particular needs of women in this
context.
- Concise
report writing skills
- Diplomacy,
tact and administrative skills in order to work with people at managerial
and, on occasions, senior government levels.
- Well-developed
interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in
demanding situations.
- Good
written and spoken English is essential.
- Sympathy
with the aims and objectives of Caritas
- Valid
driving licence
- Commitment
to the Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct; Sphere Minimum Standards, People in
Aid Code and other humanitarian codes and principles
Applications
must be received at the KEC-CS by close of business on 19th Oct, 2012
Kenya Episcopal Conference
Catholic Secretariat
P.O. BOX 13475 - 00800, Nairobi