Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) OCG Workplace – Amman, Jordan, is in search of:
Regional Technical Assist – Water & Sanitation – Primarily based in Amman, Jordan
Making use of for MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an unbiased, impartial, neutral humanitarian organisation that gives medical help to folks affected by battle, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. MSF help to folks relies solely on their wants, regardless of race, faith, gender, or political affiliation.
MSF is dedicated to an inclusive tradition that encourages and helps its staff’ numerous voices. People of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, means standing, and different range traits are inspired to use.
Context
The Center East Assist Workplace (MESO) is the HQ workplace of MSF Switzerland in Amman, Jordan. Its function is to assist MSF applications within the face of the rising complexity of intervention contexts and new challenges within the Center East and past. The workplace is presently supporting Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan and Iran and opening up the assist to different operations globally.
MESO joins different MSF constructions already current within the area, together with OCBA, OCP and OCA in Jordan. Collectively, we goal to generate a robust dynamic within the Center East, to raised perceive its challenges and issues, and achieve a clearer image of the medical and humanitarian points that MSF wants to handle.
Aims of the place & scope of obligations
The RTS WatSan is a brand new place to make sure ample assist to the missions in offering strategical technical assist to implement MSF Normal, fundamentals and various options for water and sanitation within the initiatives, conducting assessments within the nations of the area, offering suggestions and assist in addition to growing community and data of native actors, firms, and markets in Center-East.
The RTS Watsan is:
Focus and strategic implementer of the Planetary Well being Wash parts. This can goal to strengthen and velocity up the decarbonization initiatives within the area.
Present a specialised helps to the MSF initiatives together with pilot wash initiatives, such because the STU (Sewar therapy unit), the sterilization machines (Steriplus), the excessive temperature incinerators, expired medicine, and so forth.
Assist the EPREP in all missions, in addition to making ready emergency responses wash methods.
Improve and empower the capability constructing of the wash group nationwide workers and accompany the stepping stone IMS. Beneath his assist, all Nation Specifics Wash Insurance policies will likely be up to date and effectives.
Facilitate regional dynamics by figuring out suppliers and contractors within the area, selling native cooperation and partnerships, and sustaining a dynamic evaluation of buying and technical providers alternatives.
Particular Aims for the place:
To supply native technical assist by a set of regional sources articulated across the following axes:
Improvements and Planetary Well being: The RTS promotes modern strategies within the technical fields of decreasing our carbon footpring and promote various options.
Regional capability: The RTS works to facilitate regional dynamics. He/she oversees figuring out suppliers and contractors within the area, selling native cooperation and partnerships, and sustaining a dynamic evaluation of buying and technical providers alternatives. He/she performs a very essential position within the technical assist of native purchases (validation of merchandise + suppliers; technical recommendation, technical assist for the administration of requires tender, and so forth.) with service suppliers in medical tools upkeep; design workplace providers; waste therapy, and so forth…
Human capacities reinforcement: The RTS participates within the coaching and acquisition of technical practices and expertise within the area’s Logistics HR. He/she contributes to the event and completion of expertise and competencies in his/her subject of specialization and transmits them to the sphere Logistics groups. On this manner, he/she participates within the autonomy of logisticians and their constructive evolution in the direction of growing obligations.
Hole-filling: The RTS is a part of the mechanism for brief and fast alternative of Logistics positions, whose absence causes a confirmed danger of discontinuity of assist to operations. The RTS will not be supposed to interchange a place that’s not open within the mission’s group chart. The RTS can take part in an emergency opening however must be changed as quickly as potential with a view to keep away from substituting a subject place and to maintain this intervention restricted in time.
High quality requirements: He/she facilitates the entry to data administration instruments and promotes the standard requirements as described within the Logistics Fundamentals. The RTS participates within the implementation of the Logistics Fundamentals and assists the Logistics coordinators of their implementation.
Illustration: He/she represents MSF to inter-agency technical platforms within the area (e.g. WASH cluster)
Emergency response: He/she is a part of the purple group chart of missions within the area and participates within the fast response to emergencies when wanted.
Regional specialist sources: The RTS leads swimming pools of subject specialists and offers technical assist for recruitment.
Helping within the contextualization of the adaptable a part of the MSF Logistics norms & requirements, he/she helps the RLO within the strategic integration of regional specificities (e.g. technical legislations, particular constraints, native norms, and so forth.)
Range and inclusion: Resulting from open recruitments within the areas, the RTS perform permits for higher illustration of our international work drive in these regional positions.
As a regional technical assist for MESO, you can be the primary line of technical assist for MSF Switzerland’s nation coordination within the area and as such you can be the primary line of response to questions from MSF Switzerland coordinators and subject.
Your mission will likely be to make sure compliance with MSF insurance policies, tips and procedures for WatSan and take part to making sure the implementation of the Fundamentals.
Most important Tasks:
Carries out deliberate visits based on the phrases of reference established by the Logistics Coordinator of the requesting nation within the nations of his/her geographical space.
Centralizes requests for technical assist and solutions questions from the Logistics Coordinators and/or Medical Coordinators in his/her geographical space,
Calls on the assist of the Technical Referent at headquarters if the required expertise or the extent of technical validation requires it,
Participates within the preparation of the RTR go to and specialised flying schedules and proposes any modifications to the preliminary schedule based on operational wants. The ultimate validation of the schedules and/or their modifications will likely be ensured by the Logistics Coordinator of the host nation along side the Technical Referent,
Is offered to intervene within the framework of emergency applications in its geographical space,
Participates within the definition of programmatic prevention actions referring to his/her specialty in collaboration with the operational unit and the technical referents at headquarters who oversee the worldwide WatSan technique,
Contributes to the definition of insurance policies referring to his/her specialty along side his/her head workplace technical referent by way of his/her suggestions,
Contributes to making sure cohesion in MSF’s WatSan coverage by collaborating in WatSan group conferences with the top workplace referents.
Participates within the R&D of kit and/or practices in his/her specialty by participation in check campaigns and thru suggestions on initiatives in his/her geographical space.
Analyses the parts of his/her exercise for all of the missions in his/her geographical space at the very least twice a 12 months for the POA and MYR,
Writes go to reviews and an annual exercise report.
Responds to advert hoc missions on the request of the Logistics Coordinators of the nations in his/her geographical space,
Participates within the recruitment of nationwide technicians,
Contributes to the continuing coaching of the groups,
Assesses the technical degree of specialists (nationwide and worldwide), contributes to the definition of coaching programs, and proposes advert hoc coaching,
Validates service suppliers and product/provider combos, calling on the top workplace Technical Referent if the required expertise make this essential,
Advises and helps the logistics coordinators of their technical decision-making.
Necessities
Training:
Hydraulic engineer, or Civil engineer with a specialization in hydraulics or sanitation, or Hydrogeological engineer, or Grasp’s diploma or environmental engineering, or Senior technician within the water and/or sanitation sector, or Licence GeMEAU (Water Administration and Management)
Expertise:
Expertise in varied fields in a global NGO is required
Expertise with MSF will likely be taken into consideration
Expertise in vector management is a plus
No less than 4 years {of professional} expertise in his/her subject (together with 1 in a coordination position) is required
Mastery of challenge administration and data of administration and coaching
Technical competences:
Good command of challenge administration and training-related data
Pc Literacy (MS Workplace)
Hydraulic simulation software program data and expertise
Hydraulic and civil engineering theoretical data
Expertise in advanced technical challenge building administration
Hazardous medical waste administration, and environmental diploma is a plus
Water high quality and subject laboratory water evaluation expertise
A Coaching preparation and realization expertise is required, particularly on advanced technical coaching
Private competences and qualities:
Good adaptability and organizational expertise.
Skill to cooperate, rigor, analytical expertise and synthesis
Good interpersonal expertise, sense of dialogue and talent to pay attention
Skill to make use of totally different IT instruments
Capable of journey
Languages:
Fluent in English (oral and written);
Different languages are an asset
Contract
Full-time place 100%
Dedication to 3-years time period, renewable as soon as and most 6 years project (mandated place)
Place based mostly in Amman with common visits to the sphere (40-50% of the time within the subject)
Best begin date: ASAP
Gross month-to-month wage: JOD 3000 (+ seniority in MSF) based on the interior laws and wage grid of MSF in Amman
Relocation bundle for workers recruited from overseas