Master of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Humanitarian infrastructure

• Apply Humanitarian principles, International and domestic law into programming.
• Design project according to national /humanitarian standards
• Integrate Sustainable Development Goals, the Grand bargain, Humanitarian-development nexus into the programming
• Advocate making sure WaSH programming meets the needs of the population and use continuous functional,
  the cost-effective technically and institutionally sound solution as far as possible.
• Participate in the coordination of humanitarian actions
• Be involved in national /regional contingency planning
• Coordinate with other stakeholders, cluster/sector

WaSH Project cycle management

• Mobilize resources.
• Conduct needs assessment.
• Conduct a response analysis.
• Design WaSH project based on the needs assessment.
• Design and implement contextually appropriate behavior changes activities for appropriate practice in Water,
  Sanitation and Hygiene.
• Design and implement contextually appropriate safe water supply interventions.
• Design and implement contextually appropriate sanitation interventions.
• Design and implement specific interventions (conflict, displacement, urban context, natural disaster, disease
  outbreak, WaSH in schools, health centres, etc.).
• Design and implement preparedness and contingency planning.
• Monitor and evaluate projects by identifying SMART indicators, and selecting tools to monitor the progress of the
  project and its impacts.
• Integrate lessons learned.
• The report carries out administrative and budget management of WaSH projects.
• Ensure project continuous functionality, and cost-effectiveness of the project and include an exit strategy.
• Coordinate with other stakeholders/ cluster/sector

Humanitarian concepts and cross-cutting programming

• Support local partners in assessing their capacity-building needs
• Support investment (capacity building, accountability, materials, financial) in the institutional capacities of local
  and national actors
• Work to remove/reduce barriers that prevent local stakeholders from partnering with local and national responders
  / donors
• Use local resources (materials and workforce) from the beneficiary community and local institutions when
  appropriate
• Include gender in WaSH programming
• Include marginalized groups, people with disabilities, elders, and special needs in WaSH programing
• Mainstream Protection in WaSH programming
• Reduce the impact of WaSH programming on the environment
• Consider climate change and water scarcity situations and the energy nexus
• Promote livelihoods activities
• Guarantee accountability towards beneficiaries and participation
• Guarantee accountability towards donors and authorities
• Include a rights-based approach in WaSH programming
• Assess and analyse the market, implement, and monitor cash-based intervention tools and ensure quality and
  achievement of WaSH outcome when using cash based interventions.

Communication, human resources, relation with administration, logistics, security, and finance department.

• Recruit competent staff
• Manage staff, team, and conflict
• Promote staff training
• Assess staff performance
• Apply the code of conduct/Safeguarding
• Manage staff remotely
• Follow procurement procedures and finances expenditures
• The draft calls for tenders and manage contracts with suppliers/contractors
• Supervise subcontractors’ work
• Assess Security context and risks
• Apply security and safety rules while implementing activities
• Use advanced formulas and graphs in Ms. Excel, mapping tools, and statistics tools (KOBO, ODK)
• Represent and position the organization
• Communicate appropriately
• Organise meetings
• Coordinate with other sectors, cluster, sector

Ethics and behaviour

• Develop empathy towards beneficiaries.
• Understand and apply the humanitarian principles and code of conducts into programming.
• Show cultural sensitivity
• Manage stress and adapt to the situation