Background:

Harikar NGO is a neutral, non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organization established on 30th May 2004 by a group of social activists. Harikar NGO as stated in its mission statement strives toward the fulfilment of human and women rights in Dohuk Governorate as stipulated in the new Iraqi constitution of 15th October 2005. Harikar is committed to- within its resources- contribute towards the achievement of the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals. Harikar believes in human rights, the right of every person to reach his/her potential without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, social segment and ethnicity. Harikar strives to achieve social justice especially among the marginalized vulnerable groups and works towards eliminating all forms of discrimination against women by promoting their capacity to fully participate in community development. Harikar has been able to successfully carry out more than 80 projects, through funding from various partners including UNFPA, RRT/PRT, UNHCR, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNOCHA, Diakonia, UNDP, UNOPS, IRD, Mercy Corps, CARE International, ASB, GIZ, Acted, IRC, IRI, NDI, SCF-UK, Mission east, ICSP and others.

Job Overview:

According to Strategic and Operational Guidance for Humanitarian Response in Informal Sites, 1M IDPs are residing in out of camps and about 104,000 are identified to be living in 575 informal sites in Iraq. As part the response to the needs of IDPs, Harikar will rehabilitate and extend water networks, provide 300 storage tanks with the standard size 250L per family, rehabilitate dysfunctional sanitation facilities, provide 50 garbage containers with 660L for an average of 8 households per container, promote hygiene using PHAST approach and distribute hygiene kits to reach 16,245 people in Zakho and Sumel districts.

Scope of Work (Duties and Responsibilities):

Objective 1: Project support;

• Promoting safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services.
• Help plan and carry out needs’ assessments, baseline studies and periodic studies and feedback findings to stakeholders.
• Help plan activities to reduce WASH-related risks.
• Collect data from Community Volunteers and the field to identify WASH conditions in the camps and report them to the Team Leader or WASH Officer.
• Daily conduction of Hygiene Promotion or other WASH activities according to the plan that include home visits, sessions, field visits, and events.
• Conduct hygiene promotion using PHAST method.
• Train and manage Community Volunteers.
• Take account of gender, protection, HIV, environment and other important cross-cutting WASH and Protection concerns in programme design, implementation and reporting; carry out activities in a way that reflects the needs of specific groups and individuals e.g. the elderly, children, women, and people with disabilities.

Objective 2: Team Leader support;

• Support the Team Leader in carrying out the mapping exercise to ensure covering all houses in the targeted locations.
• Support the Team Leader in the follow-up of HR, financial and logistics aspects of the project in Sumel and Zakho.
• Support the Team Leader and WASH Officer in designing, managing, and monitoring hygiene promotion and protection activities according to project indicators using results-based approaches and PHAST method as required.
• Support the Team Leader and WASH Officer in data collection, accurate record keeping and management of information to measure project indictors progress (Hygiene promotion) using required project activities tracking systems and keeping the MEAL required documents.
• Perform other tasks as requested by the Team Leader.

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Objective 3: Operation department (Procurement, Finance, HR, and MEAL) support;

• Conduct activities in accordance with donor SOPs and any other key documents.
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager.
• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture.

Objective 4: Coordination;

• Liaise with community leaders and other agencies working in the intervention areas in order to make sure the coordination within the WASH sector to well carry out hygiene promotion and protection activities among target groups.
• Coordinate with the Public Health Center to receive weekly reports to identify the trending hygiene practices and respond to them accordingly.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

• Organizes and accurately completes multiple tasks by establishing priorities while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, deadlines, available resources and multiple reporting relationships
• Plans, coordinates and organizes workload while remaining aware of changing Priorities and competing deadlines
• Team management abilities, decision making, and cultural awareness.
• Strong initiative to new ideas, flexibility in adapting to changes, and creativity in responding to challenges.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral): Sensitivity to and responsiveness to project staff, local authorities, and the community.
• Commitment to the job and the organization.
• Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view.
• Solicits feedback from staff about the impact of his/her own behavior.

Experience, Qualifications and Skills:

• Educational Qualifications:
• University Degree in relevant field (Diploma degree with a good experience in a same position).
• Professional Experience:
• At least 2 to 3 years of relevant experience in Projects implemented by national/international NGOs/UN bodies/ Government.
• Expertise in Microsoft Office (for reporting).
• Good communication skills including writing skills.
• Strong team work skills.
• Strong training & facilitation skills.
• Skills:
• Fluency in written and spoken Kurdish and Arabic, good in written and spoken English.

 Reporting and Supervision

Reports to: Team Leader

Expected Conduct:

• Ensure that confidentiality is always maintained when sharing data and information about persons of concern;
• Maintain cooperative relationships with partners;
• Maintain high professional and ethical standard when both on and off duty, including upholding the principles and practices set out in the Code of Conduct and adhering to international standards;
• Seek guidance and technical support when needed with “Do no harm” principle being the priority at all times.

Commitment:

• All Harikar staff must be committed to the Core Humanitarian Principles as well as the Core Humanitarian Standards in Accountability and Quality Management
• All Harikar policies and guidelines are an integral part of this Job Description and must be implemented, e.g.:

1. Harikar operational guidelines and Policies.
2. Guideline prevention of corruption.

• Guideline on PSEA.

1. Harikar Code of Conduct
2. Child Safeguarding

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