• Job number: SRH05962
• Status: Employee
• Area of expertise: Water Sanitation and Hygiene promotion
• Position: Missions
• Country: Myanmar (Burma)
• Contract Type: Short term contract

About us

Desired start date: August 1, 2024
Duration of the mission: 12 months
Location: Yangon

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in some twenty countries, the SI teams – 2500 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.

About the mission

SI is currently mainly operating in Rakhine and in Kachin States with outreach emergency capacities through its local partners in Chin, Sagaing and Magway States. The operations are supported by the Coordination team based in Yangon.

While continuing to support the vulnerable communities suffering from a long-term protracted crisis, SI is also developing a stronger and more responsive Emergency component, either directly or through local partners, to tackle the growing needs spreading across the country.

In November 2022, 12 international staff and 310 national staff are working with SI Myanmar to implement projects focusing on Wash, FSL and Emergency response. Projects are ranging from immediate life-saving response (Water Scarcity in Rakhine, rehabilitation, Operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities, desludging and sludge treatment, water supply facilities, Emergency response to new displacements etc.) to the search for more sustainable solutions to protracted crisis (handover to communities and local organizations, capacity-building, community empowerment etc.).

SI’s main donors are FCDO, ECHO, CIAA, CDCS and UN agencies.

About the job

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• The WASH coordinator contributes to Solidarités International strategy by proposing a sector-based strategy in the field of WASH. He/she guarantees the quality of proposed technical approaches and ensures the appropriateness of WASH activities
• He/she coordinates the project cycle and the operational monitoring of WASH programs. He/she contributes to capitalization and improvement of Solidarités International methods and techniques in WASH.
• The level of representation is important on the mission. It involves the monthly WaSH cluster in Yangon, the participation to the SAG of WASH Cluster, regular meetings with donors when required.
• SI also holds the WASH Leadership role in consortia, including some with local partners implementing emergency to post emergency responses. The WASH Coordinator with the support of WASH teams will be strongly involved in the capacity assessment and building of partners.

ISSUES AND SPECIFIC CHALLENGES

• Remote management (very limited access to Myanmar, the position is supposed to be based, at least in the beginning, in Bangkok or in the region). Challenges linked to context understanding (strong limitations in place in Rakhine for the moment) + remote control of acitivities implementation.
• High volume of programming in partnerships (international and national/local) + SI positioning on WASH technical control and monitoring for such consortia
• Conclusion of all the Cyclone Mocha related programs (Rakhine and Chin), which hampered quite a lot the overall (WASH) portfolio of SI.

PRIORITIES ON THE 2-3 FIRST MONTHS

• Onboarding of the new Deputy WASH Coo
• Finalizing the restructuring of the WASH/Programs OrgChart in Rakhine
• Strengthen and streamline SI WASH leadership in Emergency Response consortium – roll out of the dedicated WASH Guidelines

Your profile

DIPLOMAS

• University level degree, preferably a Master’s degree in Water Sanitation and Hygiene related sector, Engineering, Environment and/or Geology.

EXPERIMENT IN THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR

• +5 years

EXPERIMENT ON SIMILAR POSITIONS

• 3-4 years

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Water Supply and water resource management
• Emergency and protracted Sanitation solutions
• Transformative and Behoviour change based Hygiene Promotion

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS

• Donors technical/sectorial engagement
• External coordination – Technical leadership (Cluster/Large scal consortia)
• Appetite for external communication – technical advocacy

LANGUAGES

• English (mandatory)
• French (asset)
• Myanmar/Burmese (asset)

SI will offer you

A salaried position:
According to experience, starting from EUR 2860 gross per month (2600 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of 700 USD (Yangon), 750 USD (Bangkok). No perdiem if home-based in the region.

SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.

Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every two months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.

Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

LIVING CONDITIONS:

• Individual Housing pack in Bangkok or in Yangon
• Internet and telephone network are without any constraints in Bangkok, could be of lower quality and reliability when in Myanmar (overall OK in Yangon with specific internet restrictions by the authorities)
• Restaurant & social life: When in Bangkok, life in a global metropolis. When in
• Yangon, the social life scene has shrunk a bit since 2021, but there is still a community and a diversity of options for social and outgoing life.

Application process

Do you recognize yourself in this description? If yes, please send us your CV and cover letter!

Please note that CV-only applications will not be considered, and that the vacancy may close before the deadline.

Thank you for your understanding.

To learn more about Sl: www.solidarites.org

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Solidarités International (SI) is determined to prevent and fight all type of abuse – all act of exploitation, abuse and/or sexual harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or collaborators, fraud, corruption, violation of persons and/or property, funding of activities harmful to human rights – that could be perpetrated in the frame of its interventions. SI implements a zero-tolerance policy regarding acts of abuse, notably acts of SEAH.

Solidarités International is an equitable employer committed to find all forms of discrimination. SI will ever ask for any remuneration to take part in a recruitment process.