WaSH Field Officer

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women, and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation. 

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social, and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.

Objective 1: Supervision and follow up on WASH infrastructure projects and water supply and basic sanitation. (60 %)

• Coordinate the implementation of the project’s infrastructure related activities.
• Provide overall follow up and supervision of the works related to the project. 
• Informing and documenting the anomalies and the repairs carried out in the water and wastewater systems, and the material necessary for the programme’s activities.
• Monitoring water-trucking and dislodging delivery (volume, quantity and system of delivering), working closely with local partners.
• Actively coordinate with project stakeholders (Contractor, Consultant, and suppliers). 
• To maintain up-to-date records of all field level activities to show status of work, and the quality of construction/distributed materials. 
• Distribution of WASH facilities/items to the targeted community.
• Monitoring water quality and chlorination (chemical and bacteriological) at different water points (water tanks, wells, household, etc.).. 

Objective 2: Data collection, Reporting, and Archiving. (40 %)

• Data Collection and recording regarding the project indicators and the potential beneficiaries using the data collection tools used by ACF
• Conduct WASH assessment at household, site, and community level. 
• Report possible problem or conflict during the activities. 
• Regular reporting to the line manager. 
• Support in preparing activity progress report or any other internal/external report. 
• Archiving all project related document and ensuring all team members have access to necessary documentation. 

Objective 3: Security.

• Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
• Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan

Objective 4: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger.

• Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
• Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.

Objective 5: Gender & Safeguarding

• Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against harassment and gender policy.
• Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.