WASH Coordinator-Roster

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity 

The WASH Coordinator will provide technical oversight for the design, implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of WASH and construction programmes in both humanitarian and development settings. The role ensures the delivery of high-quality, needs-based interventions that align with organizational standards, humanitarian principles, and donor requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH and construction projects, ensuring quality, effectiveness, and compliance with national and international standards.
• Provide technical guidance to field teams and partners on WASH programming, emergency response, resilience building, and construction interventions.
• Develop project designs, technical specifications, implementation plans, bills of quantities, and tender documents.
• Support resource mobilisation through needs assessments, proposal development, donor engagement, and grant management.
• Ensure effective monitoring, reporting, accountability, documentation, and knowledge management across WASH programmes.
• Strengthen the capacity of staff, partners, and communities to deliver quality WASH interventions and emergency responses.
• Mainstream child protection, gender equality and inclusion, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction throughout project implementation.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with government institutions, donors, UN agencies, clusters, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
• Represent the organization in relevant WASH coordination forums, clusters, and technical working groups.
• Supervise and support WASH staff, ensuring effective performance management, teamwork, and adherence to organizational policies and standards.

The Individual

Educational Qualification and Experience

• A minimum of a Master’s degree in Hydraulic/Civil/ /Water Resources/Water Supply and Environmental Engineering or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of solid work experience in WASH sector, preferably in INGOs.
• Demonstrated experience in the management of key programmatic areas relevant to WASH interventions under the country program.
• Additional experience and commitment to, and understanding of, participatory approaches to respond to Venerable community.
• Previous experience in managing and developing a multi-disciplinary team. 
• NGO work experience, preferably working in WASH sector for emergency and development interventions.

Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Plan Internation Ethiopia Program Areas

Closing Date: November 11, 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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