Pact values and supports a diverse work environment.
Responsibilities and Tasks
The Community Development Officer will hold the following responsibilities:
General Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and monitor the successful planning, implementation and management of the sustainable community water and Sanitation program and training delivered by the trainers to the communities.
- Support hygiene and sanitation training of the communities around the water points and promote targeted performance standards at the field level.
- Support beneficiary communities’ sense of ownership of the water points in the cluster plans region.
- Evaluate the contribution of water availability/management to conflict and population distribution/migration.
- Supervise drilling partners to observe PACT & GOSS technical guidelines and standards as defined in contract agreements.
- Liaise with State and local authorities, County WASH departments to promote a good understanding of WRAPP programmatic activities and ensure the endorsement of WRAPP Work Plan by local authorities.
- Support community-based engagement and advocacy on key thematic issues central to Pact’s Sudan Country Program (gender, environmental issues, governance, peace building, returnees, etc).
- Represent Pact’s Sudan Country Program in general and WRAPP in particular to promote good public relationship with communities, partner organizations, local authorities, and associated networks.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Develop detailed monthly and quarterly project work plans, including activities descriptions, timetables and expected results.
- Manage the implementation of these activities so as to ensure the project’s activities and outputs are executed on time and to program quality standards.
- Provide backstopping, supervision and monitoring to local partners engaged in training communities.
- Track the project’s progress and make changes to the activity plans where appropriate.
Monitoring, evaluation and knowledge sharing:
- Implement appropriate and timely monitoring of all WRAPP activities according to Work Plans to enhance effective programs implementation and contributes to timely and focused reporting.
- Prepare and submit in timely fashion, regular (monthly) reports on all projects activities, sensitizing and documenting experiences, constraints, innovations and lessons learnt in the cluster plan activities and other program activities.
D. Representation and Networking:
- Establish and maintain regular contact with beneficiary groups and partner organizations, and liaise and coordinate with the appropriate government bodies to promote successful project implementation.
- Represent the project at the local level, in beneficiary communities in southern Sudan.
Project Implementation Technical Support, Training, Monitoring, and Reporting:
The CDOs will produce the following reports and project documentation and submit them to the attention of WRAPP program managers.
- Regular monthly reports on project activities, sensitizing and documenting experiences, innovations and lessons learnt in community organization.
- Report weekly to the Juba Office and Field Project Manager on all relevant matters on project activities and progress for broader adaptation by Pact Sudan and other partners organizations.
- Monthly report on project impacts.
- Progress and status of training and activities performance by community based organizations.
- Follow up on the completion and submission of all WRAPP reporting templates including training attendance sheets, water quality tests, local authorities borehole distribution list, site selection forms, etc
- Identify and mobilized community based groups in implementation of the priority project areas.
- Report on beneficiary figures disaggregated by age and male/female numbers.
- Document success stories.
Desired Skills and Qualifications
- At least 3 years relevant work experience in community development and training works
- Must be a Sudanese citizen.
- Experience working in Southern Sudan and willingness to work in the field.
- Good project management skills
- Good analytical and evaluation skills
- Thorough knowledge of socio–economics, socio–anthropology and/or proven ability in participatory methods.
- Good written and oral communications skills.
- A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Skill in word processing, spreadsheets and database skills.
- Ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with donors, government representatives, contractors, international and local NGOs.
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently in the field in southern Sudan.
- Consensus building and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability and willingness to ride a motorcycle as a primary means of transportation.
- Have a minimum educational qualification of Diploma in Community Development study, Water and Sanitation related Engineering or its equivalent.
- Knowledge of latest technologies and approaches in Sanitation and Hygiene promotion.
