Overview
The National UN Volunteer WASH Officer will support the implementation and monitoring of WASH programmes in Papua New Guinea, focusing on engineering oversight, construction monitoring, programme monitoring, information management, data analysis, visualization, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support on WASH engineering design, planning, implementation, and quality assurance.
- Review technical drawings, bills of quantities, technical specifications, and engineering documentation.
- Support government counterparts and implementing partners in applying national standards and UNICEF technical requirements.
- Provide technical inputs to rural and urban water supply, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure projects.
- Monitor implementation of WASH infrastructure projects to ensure quality, timeliness, compliance, and value for money.
- Conduct field visits to project sites and document progress against plans and targets.
- Verify construction quality, adherence to specifications, and completion of works.
- Support identification and resolution of implementation bottlenecks and technical challenges.
- Prepare construction monitoring reports and recommendations.
- Support implementation and monitoring of UNICEF WASH programme activities and annual work plans.
- Track progress against programme indicators, milestones, and targets.
- Support field monitoring missions, partner reviews, and programme verification activities.
- Assist in documenting lessons learned, challenges, innovations, and good practices.
- Support management and organization of WASH programme information, documentation, and records.
- Maintain programme databases, project trackers, monitoring tools, and information repositories.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, completeness, and accessibility.
- Support knowledge management and information-sharing initiatives.
- Compile, clean, validate, and analyze programme and sector data.
- Develop dashboards, maps, visualizations, infographics, and analytical products to support decision-making.
- Support monitoring of WASH indicators and generation of evidence for programme planning.
- Assist in maintaining data management systems and reporting platforms.
- Support preparation of donor reports, programme reports, situation updates, presentations, and briefing materials.
- Compile information from field offices, implementing partners, and government counterparts.
- Contribute to annual reports, progress updates, monitoring reports, and management reviews.
- Support timely reporting of programme achievements, challenges, risks, and lessons learned.
Required Experience
Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in WASH, engineering, construction supervision, programme monitoring, information management, data analysis, reporting, or related areas.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Public Health Engineering, Environmental Science, Construction Management, Information Management, Statistics, Data Science, GIS, or another relevant field. An advanced university degree in a relevant field will be considered an asset.
