WASH and Shelter Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Integrated Programme Development (25%)

• Develop, update, and roll out an integrated WASH and Shelter strategy for Syria, ensuring the two sectors complement and reinforce each other.
• Provide dynamic programmatic leadership and strategic direction to ensure the technical and financial integrity of the entire WASH and Shelter portfolio.
• Lead the design and development of high-quality, innovative concept notes and proposals for a diverse range of donors, ensuring a fully integrated approach between WASH and Shelter components.
• Conduct ongoing analysis of needs and opportunities to enhance programme impact, scale, and integration.
• Ensure the WASH and Shelter strategy is informed by robust assessments and learning from programme data.

2. Programme Management & Quality Assurance (30%)

• Oversee the implementation of all WASH and Shelter projects, ensuring activities are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Ensure detailed implementation plans (DIPs), procurement plans, and budget monitoring tools are in place and actively managed.
• Ensure harmonized and robust Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), technical guidelines, and tools are developed and adhered to across the portfolio.
• Promote the use of agency and industry standards across all WASH and Shelter programming.
• Work closely with the Programme Quality and MEAL teams to establish and maintain a rigorous M&E framework, ensuring that learning is captured and used to adapt programmes.
• Ensure timely and high-quality donor reporting, consolidating inputs from the respective Managers.

3. Technical Oversight & Integration (25%)

• WASH Programme: Provide technical oversight on all WASH activities. Ensure technical standards for infrastructure (e.g., water networks, sanitation facilities) are met.
• Shelter Programme: Provide technical oversight on all shelter and infrastructure rehabilitation activities, including repairs, and rehabilitations. Ensure technical documentation (drawings, BoQs, specifications) is of high quality and adheres to safety and sustainability principles.
• Integration: Actively foster and mandate synergies between WASH and Shelter—for example, ensuring WASH infrastructure is included in shelter rehabilitations and that hygiene promotion is targeted in shelter sites.
• Stay abreast of the latest innovations, practices, and technologies in both sectors to provide cutting-edge technical recommendations.
• Ensure commitment to cross-cutting themes, including gender, protection, safeguarding, accountability, and environmental sustainability, is mainstreamed across all projects.

4. Team Management & Capacity Building (15%)

• Directly line manage the WASH Manager and the Shelter Manager.
• Oversee the recruitment, performance management, and professional development of the WASH and Shelter teams.
• Identify capacity building needs across both teams and facilitate relevant technical and managerial training.
• Promote a positive, collaborative, and learning-oriented team culture that embodies GOAL's core values.

5. Representation, Coordination & Advocacy (5%)

• Serve as GOAL's principal representative for the WASH and Shelter sectors in external coordination forums, including the WASH Cluster and Shelter/NFI Cluster meetings and SAG.
• Engage proactively with donors, UN agencies, and NGO partners to position GOAL as a leader in integrated WASH and Shelter programming in Syria.
• Advocate for evidence-based responses and funding based on GOAL's field experience and identified needs.