Salary: £25,596 - £34,617per annum net <plus location allowance> <(net salary means that Oxfam GB will meet the tax and social security liabilities of post-holder in addition to net salary)>

Contract Type: Fixed Term – 2 Months Extendable

Hours: Full Time– 40 per week>

Location: COUNTRY, CITY/DISTRICT

Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. As an Oxfam employee, you will join a team of professionals that is part of the international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in 94 countries. As part of a global movement for change, we are working together to end world poverty and injustice.

Since the start of the crisis, OGB have worked closely with the District Health Management Teams (DHMT) to provide essential PPE, kits for Contact Tracing, Burial and Surveillance Teams as well as chemicals for water treatment and spray. OGB have also provided the water and sanitation units for isolation centres, however the next phase or works is critical to scale up considerably to meet the growing demands for more than 100 Ebola Care Units (ECU's), 26 non-ebola specialised primary health units from where patients suspected of EVD are referred to isolation or treatment units, to be completed in the next 2 months.

This is an opportunity to provide technical support to the establishment of ECU's, quality assurance and technical training for the operation and maintenance of ECU's, Isolation Units, PHU's and access to WaSH services in the communities.

We are looking for candidates with relevant Qualifications in a WASH related discipline (engineering; environmental health; public health, etc.) with substantial experience managing or coordinating WASH programmes and in designing and implementing water-sanitation and/or hygiene promotion programmes in a development context. Experience of working in cholera or similar disease outbreak crises implementing WASH facilities and liaising with medical organisations using practical technical experience in design and construction of a variety of water and sanitation facilities with a focus on urban contexts is expected. And the candidate must have experience in managing/training of staff on design & construction of WASH interventions, assessment and development of policy & technical.