WASH Technical Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Why we are different…

Talent. Fait h. Th rive.

When you join Food for the Hungry (FH), you embrace God’s calling for your life and engage in work that combines your talents and faith. In the same way that FH is committed to unlocking resilience and flourishing in communities around the globe, we are dedicated to creating a workplace where our team members can thrive and grow. We believe every imaginable problem has a solution and that our contributions make a difference. FH continues to re-imagine impactful solutions to respond to the devastation of poverty globally. FH serves millions of the world’s most vulnerable people, helping them overcome poverty and injustice by collaborating with country offices to build resources, capacity, and resilience. Food for the Hungry turns adversity into impact. FH has harnessed the power of faith for more than 50 years. Our Heartbeat Christian values permeate throughout the organization.

Job Summary

The WASH Lead is responsible for developing and implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene programs across the organization. Serves as FH’s global WASH technical lead with accountability for technical quality, standards, and performance across humanitarian, emergency, and development programming. Ensures WASH programming supports resilience building, emergency preparedness, and systems transformation. Leads FH WASH technical strategy through a multi-sectoral and collaborative approach and strengthens staff capacity and learning through the WASH community of practice. Directs the design, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH projects, including proposal development, implementation backstopping, and technical input into project reporting. Promotes WASH innovation and the development of scalable approaches that can be piloted, adapted, and sustained over time.

Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrated computer operating skills, including proficiency in Google platforms, Microsoft Office products, and virtual technologies such as Skype and Zoom.
• Excellent interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage colleagues and partners across diverse contexts.
• High integrity and a strong sense of professional ethics.
• Knowledge and application of WASH guidelines and standards, including Core Humanitarian Standards and Sphere Standards.
• Demonstrated ability to provide global technical leadership, set WASH standards, and ensure technical quality across humanitarian, emergency, and development programs.
• Demonstrated experience integrating WASH into resilience programming, including absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities within WASH systems.
• Demonstrated experience in systems strengthening, community-led WASH approaches, and capacity building.
• Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and emergency settings.
• Familiarity with GIS, CADD, data analysis software, and water modeling software preferred.
• Ability to sit or stand at a computer for up to 8 hours per day performing repetitive keyboard tasks.
• Able to lift up to 25 lbs individually and up to 50 lbs as a team lift.
• Ability to travel up to 20 percent of the time per year domestically and internationally, including to insecure or high-risk contexts.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Integration: Lead the integration of WASH into FH’s resilience-based humanitarian and development programming, ensuring alignment with the organizational program model, resilience framework, and evolving strategic priorities.
• Technical Leadership and Authority : Serve as FH’s primary WASH technical authority, providing global technical leadership and final validation of WASH designs, standards, and approaches across humanitarian, emergency, and development contexts.
• Technical Quality and Support: Ensure technical quality and effectiveness of WASH programming globally, including oversight of WASH infrastructure, service delivery approaches, sustainable systems-based solutions, and hygiene promotion.
• Learning and Capacity Strengthening: Lead and steward the WASH Community of Practice, promote cross learning and best practices, and strengthen technical capacity across regions and sectors.
• Proposal and Resource Development: Lead WASH technical inputs for proposals, support contextualized emergency and development designs, ensure integration of gender and youth considerations, and contribute to accurate budgeting.
• Planning and Adaptation: Lead the development and refinement of WASH strategic priorities, work plans, standards, indicators, and technical guidance in response to organizational and contextual shifts.
• Humanitarian Response: Provide technical leadership and surge support to humanitarian response operations as required, including assessments, design, implementation, and participation in WASH coordination mechanisms.
• Collaboration and Representation : Work closely with RHA and Resilience teams, engage in inter agency coordination, and represent FH’s WASH programming with donors, partners, and technical platforms.
• Innovation: Identify, pilot, and scale innovative WASH solutions and approaches that enhance sustainability, resilience outcomes, and organizational impact.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or environmental engineering or a related WASH field.
• Master’s degree in a WASH-related discipline or international development preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in engineering and or WASH programming within a global organization.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior or global WASH technical advisor or lead with accountability for technical quality across multiple country programs.
• Proven experience supporting humanitarian proposals and emergency WASH assessments and programming.
• Demonstrated experience integrating WASH into resilience, risk reduction, or humanitarian development peace nexus programming.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and capacity strengthening to WASH staff and partners across diverse contexts.
• Experience in budget development and technical reporting.
• Experience working in a nonprofit or faith-based organization preferred.
• Full professional proficiency in English with strong writing, reporting, and presentation skills. Additional languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, or French, are an asset

Supervisor Responsibilities

Directly supervises staff. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, resolving problems, etc.

Safeguarding Policy

FH strives to provide an environment free from sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the Heartbeat Values and safeguarding and associated policies. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

The responsibilities listed above are not all-inclusive and may be changed at any time.