WaterAid is a UK registered international charity dedicated to the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene to the world’s poorest people. We support local organisations to manage low cost, sustainable projects and also provide policy support to secure the right of poor people to safe water and sanitation services.
Established since 1981, WaterAid has operations in 26 countries across the world including Nigeria. Since 1996, we have been working in partnership with the government of Nigeria to provide services to the most marginalized populations in Bauchi, Benue, Enugu, Ekiti, Jigawa and Plateau states. We believe in a world where everyone, everywhere has access to safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene by 2030.
We seek to expand our database of suitably qualified, competent and experienced professionals interested in being listed as adhoc volunteers who can be called upon at short notice to support in the provision of specific value added services required to deliver a large and highly dynamic development program. This is in line with our aim to continue to utilize and strengthen local capacity to adequately provide quality technical assistance for water, hygiene and sanitation delivery and development in Nigeria.
We will accept two categories of volunteers – experienced professionals in the areas listed below and young graduates seeking an exposure to the development sector.
Those accepted on this programme will be provided basic orientation and required training prior to being deployed on a needs basis to support our work in various communities. We may not offer monthly compensation to volunteers but will cover travel costs; provide accident insurance for the period of deployment; accommodation and a stipend for living expenses whenever we require the services of our selected volunteers.
Our preferred areas of competence include:
- Behaviour change communication
- Civil engineering /building engineering
- Community health management or Environmental health management
- Documents and records management
- Geology/ hydrogeology
- Human resources management
- Media writing and editing
- Organizational development and institutional capacity building
- Photography and photo editing
- Security and safety management
- Social work and community mobilization
- Water resource management/Water Engineering
Minimum requirements
Interested applicants would be expected to meet the following criteria:
- Education: Possession of minimum of a university degree or higher national diploma in a field relevant to the area of expertise.
- Experience: We are quite flexible about the range of experiences we seek. For experienced professionals, we desire that you possess a minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in specified subject area/field.
- Location: We desire that our pool of volunteers must be currently resident either in Abuja or any of the six WaterAid Nigeria focal states (Bauchi, Benue, Enugu, Ekiti, Jigawa and Plateau states).
The minimum qualifications for this position are a senior secondary School certificate or General Certificate in Education “O” levels with at least credit passes in four subjects including English Language.
To apply
Interested individuals are encouraged to send a motivation letter highlighting why this opportunity to collaborate with us is of interest along with a recent copy of your curriculum vitae as email attachments to: [email protected] within 2 weeks from the date of this publication.
Only candidates who meet the minimum criteria and are pre-qualified for listing on our database will be contacted.