WASH Officer

Imagine1day International Organization

Full time Posted: Nov 11, 2026

Career Level

Mid Level(3-5 years)

Location

Kemashi, Benishangul Gumuz

Deadline

Nov 22, 2026

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About This Role

This is a field-based implementation role where you will be the organization's day-to-day presence in communities — running water scheme rehabilitation, overseeing latrine construction, and training local volunteers and elders to carry hygiene messages forward. Imagine1day works heavily in conflict-affected and hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia, so expect the job to demand hands-on community engagement rather than desk-based coordination. The cholera-prevention framing suggests you are stepping into an outbreak-prone context where your work has immediate public health consequences.

What the Requirements Say About This Role

The mid-level band with three to five years of experience tells you they want someone who has already run WASH activities independently and does not need hand-holding on the technical basics — but who is still close enough to field work to train volunteers personally. The absence of direct reports signals a lean structure: you will influence outcomes through community members and contractors rather than through a team you manage. The short six-month contract with extension potential suggests donor-funded programming where performance and funding continuity determine whether the role grows.

How to Approach This Application

Lead with concrete evidence of WASH work in lowland or hard-to-access settings, especially anything involving water scheme rehabilitation or hygiene promotion at community level. Because the role explicitly involves training volunteers and elders, show that you can communicate technical content to people with limited formal education — a brief example of a training you designed or delivered will land better than a list of duties. Mention any experience working in Benishangul Gumuz or similar contexts, since familiarity with the area reduces the adjustment risk the employer is quietly worried about.

Best Fit

Who This Role Suits

Best suited to a WASH practitioner with field experience in remote or conflict-affected regions who is comfortable with short-term contracts and community-facing work. Competition is likely moderate — the location deters many candidates, which works in your favor if you can genuinely commit to living and working in Kemashi.

Job title: WASH Officer

Employment Category: Full Time

Reporting to: Project Coordinator

Duration: 6 Months with Possibility of Extention

Direct reports: None

Unit/department: WASH

Location: Kemashi zone BG

Job Grade/ Category- Grade 4

Salary: As per the Organization’s salary scale

The overall purpose of the role:

The WASH Officer will be responsible to facilitate the day to day WASH activities; Water scheme rehabilitation, sanitation facilities construction/maintenance, hygiene promotion activities for which these Officer/s will train volunteers, community representatives and elders on how to improve community and household level sanitation and hygienic activities on timely basis and frame results afterwards to measure how effective this hygiene promotion has been adopted in preventing cholera outbreak and other water borne diseases. Besides, they will closely follow up and ensure the implementation of latrine cleaning, environmental and private premises are kept neat and supervise water quality management is in compliance with the standards, guideline and directions provided by I1D and the national Emergency WASH cluster, beneficiary needs and donor requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Key Responsibilities

#1. Provide Technical Assistance:

Ensure project conformity to Sphere standards for water and sanitation service provision, are gender sensitive, and mainstream child Safeguarding requirement for WASH implementation
Conduct Installation of damage handpump replacement
Prepare BoQ and specification for sanitation facility construction
provide refresher training for community-based staff on key hygiene messages and approaches
Closely follow and take actions to distribute purchased ESNFIs/NFIs and other items on time and make sure items are not stored for more than a week in warehouse.
Make regular contacts and hold discussions with government officials at Woreda and Kebelle levels and also with beneficiaries to create smooth relationships, mutual understanding and support in the area of emergency WASH activities.
Facilitate handing over of completed water supply, sanitation and hygiene activities by the project to the beneficiaries in consultation with the concerned government offices and cluster representatives and ensure proper documentations for future reference.
Facilitate payments for vendors/suppliers/contractors, volunteers, trainees and trainers
Supervise, oversee and guide the day-to-day activities of the WASH activities in the project target town
Prepare and review agreements, if any, that need to be signed with beneficiaries or other parties in accordance with the guidelines/policy of the organization.
Review DIP of the project and make necessary adjustments when needed in consultation with the project coordinator.

#2 Planning & Supervision:

Conducts baseline information related to WASH accessibility status in collaboration with other staff members and prepares plan of action for respective woredas/kebeles;

Conduct field level damage assessment, gap and quantify the damage for further action accordingly.
Conduct close field supervision to ensure most cost effective and most efficient implementation of the hygiene promotion and other related works in line with the plan, available standards, community needs and donor's requirement
Conducts joint, supportive and facilitative supervision with woreda and kebele staff on the activities of community nutrition agents;
Supervise development and implementation of training and other capacity-strengthening activities in the WASH sector
Supervises project activities and budgets, which includes tracking of project activities

#3. Networking & Learning:

Works closely with WASHco and water and Energy Office and other government partners and community-level institutions to promote WASH interventions with targeted households;

Keeps updated with developments in WASH sectors, including best practice examples and ensure ongoing personal development and learning;
Participates in the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned in available forums.

#4. Reporting

Prepares monthly/quarterly biannual and annual progress reports as requested and submits to the Project coordinator;
Provide timely updates and narrative reports and feedback on the progress of ES/NFI distribution, challenges and concerns encountered to the Project Coordinator and others as requested in writing and follow up action points
Coordinates quarterly review meetings;

Gender Equality Commitments

Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information.

Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, and children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, or religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
Value and respect all cultures.

6. Safeguarding Commitment

Imagine1day has zero tolerance for violations of Child and Adult Safeguarding, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and the Code of Conduct. In the process of recruitment, selection, and appointment Imagine1day implements a range of procedures and actions including Criminal Background Checks/ International vetting/Certificates of good conduct to ensure children and vulnerable adults are safeguarded and abuse is prevented.

Experience and Technical competencies:

Education: BSC in Water resource Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Environmental health/ Engineering and other related fields
Experience: 3-5 years relevant experience of WASH at least 3years in an international NGO or similar organization.
Solid experience in Water scheme rehabilitation, sanitation facilities construction/maintenance, hygiene promotion activities and also in WASH Project Design, supervision, analysis and report writes up, Experience in WASH Cluster engagement has an added value, Experience in international NGO’s and other UN organizations

Other Competencies and desirables:

Relevant trainings and capacity built on Humanitarian Accountability Principles, Sphere, WHO water quality guideline, PSEA, Accountability to Affected people, project Management and Grants report writing.
Experience on Community Engagement and Cooperation
Experience with emergency WASH activities
Full computer and Internet skills including MS Office for word processing, or other databases and in database design, graphic presentation and financial spreadsheet programs,
Fluent in oral and written English and Amharic languages

Education:

BSC in Water resource Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Environmental health/ Engineering or related field s or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education.

Core Values	Clear Understanding
Community	☐
Infinite possibility	☐
Integrity	☐
Value Exchange	☐
Open Communication	☐
Sustainability	☐
Equity	☐
Fun	☐

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Core Values

Clear Understanding

Community

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Infinite possibility

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Integrity

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Value Exchange

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Open Communication

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Sustainability

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Equity

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Fun

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Languages:

Good knowledge of written and spoken English
Knowledge of local language and cultural context

Key Internal & External Stockholders:

Imagine 1day Internal staffs
Imagine 1day External partners (Government Health Office, Women & social affair office) and other partners.

Updated: November 10/2026

Imagine 1day has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All employment offers are conditional upon the receipt of satisfactory references and the signing of our code of conduct, Safeguarding Policy with a particular focus on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding. This position will also be subject to robust reference and background screening checks.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees & qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran

Imagine 1day complies with all applicable laws governing non-discrimination in employment.

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