Water and Habitat Program Manager
 International Committee of the Red Cross
 Location: Raipur -Jagdhalpur
 Last Date: May 21, 2010

International Committee of the Red Cross
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The ICRC Regional Delegation in Delhi is currently looking for an enthusiastic professional to join its Water & Habitat department under the following position:

1. Position Water and Habitat Program Manager

Job title: Water and Habitat Engineer - 1
Location: Raipur – Jagdhalpur
ICRC Grade 6
Starting date: Immediately

General Information

The ICRC's water and habitat engineers assess the water and housing needs of victims of armed conflict. They plan projects to solve the issues requiring environmental and civil engineering skills, negotiate with local authorities and firms regarding project implementation, supervise the execution of the projects, and handle all aspects of their administration.

This new position covers the WatHab activities implemented in Chhattisgarh State Sub-Delegation where the ICRC had recently and for the first time in India, an opportunity to develop its assistance activities.
Current orientations consider targeting Dantewara and Bijapur districts’ rural populations which have been isolated from the mainstream Indian citizens. WatHab program are currently being shaped up to provide direct water supply assistance to the resident population, both in terms of quantity and quality, as well as provisioning a support to ICRC health department (intervention in health and orthopedic centers).

Qualifications / knowledge / experience

• The WatHab Field officer is expected to have successfully completed a Civil or Water Supply/Environmental Engineering degree in a reputed institution and to present a proven track record of at least 5 years in the fields of water supply, civil engineering, and project planning, estimation, budgeting and management.
• He should possess good analytical, written and oral communication skills in English & Hindi, present good negotiation skills, and be able to establish trustful dialogue with his direct interlocutors. Good computer literacy (MS Office, CaD) is essential.
• He is expected to be familiar with Chhattisgarh, interested in developing her/his knowledge of the India Central States’ context and strongly committed to provide relevant assistance to vulnerable populations.
• Although closely supported at the start of his assignment, he is expected to gradually gain in autonomy and initiative to eventually become a suggesting and implementing strength of the ICRC’ WatHab department in Northeast.
• As a team member, showing some abilities to interact, coordinate, and be genuinely interested to other ICRC fields of activities is indispensable.
• This position involves some mobility and field movements in difficult geographic conditions.
 
Duties and responsibilities linked to the position

Context understanding and integration

Maintain a broad and up to date contextual knowledge of the area(s) of intervention; Establish and maintain close links with all stakeholders (IRCS, communities, traditional, administrative, and technical authorities, NGOs); Assess and constantly monitor public health conditions of population and its access to water and sanitation facilities; Actively contribute to the development of the water and habitat department’ strategy.

Operational management of WatHab program

Develop an in-depth knowledge of the program and projects planning documents and implement the WatHab program in an integrated manner with other ICRC’ operational departments in terms of planning, resource allocation, shared objectives, etc... Provide relevant technical inputs and define the implementation’ modalities; monitor the operation' relevance and adequacy with respect to the context' evolution; provide constructive criticism on program strength and weaknesses; respond proactively to lessons learnt.

Logistic, financial & administrative management of WatHab program

Identify the needs in resources and establish the procurement planning; contribute to and follow-up material orders;
manage tender processes in collaboration with logistic and administration departments.
Develop an in depth knowledge of the allocated budget and monitor project expenditures at regular intervals; establish the program fund requests.

Human Resources Management

Organize and coordinate his team' schedule; conduct semestral staff’ qualification exercises; reinforce his team members' technical and managerial capacities.

Representation & Coordination

Represent the institution ICRC at any time and act accordingly; present ICRC identity to all his/her interlocutors.
Actively participate to internal operational meetings conducted at State level and share WatHab findings and lessons learned with direct managers and other ICRC technical departments; develop and maintain a close collaboration with logistic and administrative departments to anticipate and solve operational difficulties; conduct regular meetings with WatHab stakeholders at State level (IRCS, communities, traditional, administrative, and technical authorities, NGOs)

Institutional and internal reporting

Ensure timely provision of scheduled and or ad hoc institutional, contextual, and technical reports.

Applications should specifically cover qualifications, and particulars of present and past assignments. Present emoluments should be specified.

Only short listed candidates will be invited for an interview in Raipur, pre-scheduled on the 3rd and 4th of June 2010.

Please send your application including motivation letter and curriculum vitae to the HR Department: icrc.humanresources@gmail.com  by 21st of May 2010, with the mention "Application for the Post of Water and Habitat Program Manager".