Wash and Shelter Specialist Cameroon

The Wash and Shelter Specialist provides technical oversight and strategic direction to NRC's WASH and Shelter programmes in Cameroon. The role involves supporting project implementation, capacity building, developing strategies, and ensuring technical quality and compliance across the country.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and strategic direction to Country and Area offices for WASH and Shelter Core Competency development
• Lead strategic direction and strengthen technical quality of NRC’s Shelter and WASH programme in Cameroon
• Support WASH and Shelter project implementation at field level with quality assurance
• Develop collaborative country strategy and donor strategy to grow the program
• Capacity build staff through mentoring and training to increase technical capacity
• Develop partnership inclusive WASH and Shelter Core Competency strategies, technical guidance and Macro Logframes aligned with regional and global priorities
• Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
• Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments and ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
• Provide technical direction and project implementation support to the implementation team
• Extract key learnings from Core Competency implementation and incorporate them in staff development processes
• Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors
• Ensure compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Minimum 2 years of WASH and/or Shelter expertise (as Specialist/PDM or Project Manager)
• Master’s degree or similar in relevant fields
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in French and English, both written and verbal
• This position requires 60% travel in field offices
• Knowledge of the Central African region
• Experience in team capacity building
• Experience in partnership-based programming for WASH and Shelter
• Experience with a diverse range of donors and funding opportunities, including humanitarian, durable solutions, and development-oriented programming
• Technical knowledge and experience of behaviour change process in a humanitarian context
• Technical knowledge and experience of the community engagement process and integration of gender and diversity in program design
• Experience implementing cash and market project approaches
• Knowledge of House, Land and Property rights applied to shelter and WASH responses
• Experience with management of borehole programs is desired
• Experience with alternative WASH in a humanitarian context an asset
• Understanding of SPHERE and INEE Minimum Standards is required
• Understanding of environmental and climate tools like NEAT+ is an asset

Skills

• WASH Expertise
• Technical Expertise in Shelter
• Humanitarian Programming
• Project Management
• Team Capacity Strengthening
• Partnership programming
• Donor Relations
• Behaviour Change Process
• Community Engagement
• Gender Integration
• Diversity Integration
• Cash and Market Programming
• House Land Property Rights
• Borehole Program Management
• Alternative WASH Solutions
• SPHERE standards
• INEE Minimum Standards
• Environmental Tools
• NEAT+
• Technical Oversight

Languages

French, English