Wash Officer

Provides UNICEF Papua New Guinea with monitoring support for water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. The volunteer reviews designs and construction quality, follows infrastructure delivery, maintains programme evidence and transforms WASH data into dashboards, maps and reports that help partners improve planning, accountability and services for children and communities.

• Provide technical support for WASH engineering design, planning, implementation and quality assurance
• Review drawings, bills of quantities, specifications and engineering documentation
• Monitor WASH infrastructure quality, timeliness, compliance and completion through field visits
• Track WASH work-plan indicators, milestones and targets
• Maintain programme databases, trackers, monitoring tools and information repositories
• Compile, validate and analyse programme data and develop dashboards, maps and visualisations
• Prepare donor and programme reports, situation updates and briefing materials

• Minimum three years of relevant professional experience in WASH, engineering, construction supervision, monitoring, information management, data analysis, reporting or related areas
• Strong report writing and analytical skills
• English language ability

• Construction monitoring and infrastructure implementation experience
• Experience with data analysis, dashboard development, GIS, Power BI, Excel or Kobo
• Experience working with government institutions, NGOs, development partners or UN agencies

• WASH Engineering
• Construction Monitoring
• Quality Assurance
• Programme Monitoring
• Data Analysis
• Information Management
• Data Visualisation
• Technical Reporting

• Power BI
• Excel
• Kobo
• GIS

• Volunteer assignment via UNV
• Periodic travel to provinces and project locations is required