WASH Assistant - Garissa

About the role

Save the Children (Kenya) is recruiting a WASH Assistant to support its WASH Officer in implementing quality WASH programmes in the Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and Tana River regions. The post focuses on WASH emergency response, including preparation for the El Niño crisis, and integrates WASH with nutrition, food security, health, education and child protection. It reports to the WASH Officer.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the WASH Officer in following up and evaluating WASH infrastructure construction, including supervision of animal troughs, tank platforms, elevated tower tanks, reticulation systems, borehole equipping and solarization, and site meetings with contractors and community representatives.
• Plan and organise hygiene promotion and distribute WASH non-food items such as jerricans, buckets, soap, PUR and Aquatabs.
• Maintain WASH documentation and help document success stories from served communities.
• Supervise contractors, ensure site safety and community participation, validate work quality and coordinate with administration and logistics for payments.
• Verify construction against quality checklists, plan weekly data reporting on beneficiaries and activities, and write daily reports.
• Integrate construction with hygiene promotion and community participation, coordinate with other sectors, and embed gender, child protection, HIV and environmental considerations.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Public Health or sanitation.
• At least 2 years of experience in WASH infrastructure construction in a humanitarian or development context.
• Experience of project management, integrated Health and WASH projects, and community participation and accountability mechanisms.
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation, and ability to represent Save the Children externally.
• Ability to write clear assessment and project reports, with strong communication and influencing skills.
• High level of written and spoken English, and the ability to speak Kiswahili and/or Somali.
• Flexibility and tolerance in difficult or insecure circumstances; Level 3 child safeguarding awareness.