Job ID
43504
Job Title
Public Health Engineering Team Leader
To work for
Oxfam Syria
Country
Syria
City
Aleppo
Field of Work
Engineering - Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Finished or Exempted (For male)
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: To ensure the provision of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services to vulnerable communities affected by the crisis in Syria. The WASH department focuses on delivering sustainable, inclusive, and context-specific solutions that promote public health, prevent waterborne diseases, and enhance resilience. By collaborating with communities, local authorities, and partners, the department aims to improve access to essential WASH infrastructure and practices, uphold dignity, and support long-term recovery and development.
TEAM PURPOSE: To deliver quality WASH interventions to reduce WASH-related diseases and improve quality of life.
JOB PURPOSE: To support Oxfam’s earthquake response in close coordination with line and technical managers in the implementation of the emergency WASH activities to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable population affected by the earthquake in Northern hub of Syria. This includes supporting the development and guidance of PHE team members, to support PHE Officers in their responsibilities in planning and delivering quality Public Health Engineering activities through: data gathering and management, public health engineering risks and needs assessment, implementation, capacity building to staff capacity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management):
• To lead and provide professional, strategic, and technical support to the PHE team in respective governorates to be able to scale up, assess, design, implement public health humanitarian program activities.
• Foster and cultivate balanced coordination between Public Health Engineering and Public Health Promotion teams for effective and sustainable implementation of WASH projects in strong coordination and collaboration with WASH TL.
• Identify and Lead capacity building efforts of the Oxfam WASH PHE team staff, partners where applicable, and other stakeholders and build their capacities to develop stronger WASH team in respective hubs, including CE among other approaches, play a coaching role to Oxfam WASH PHE team on Engineering complexity issues and provide/ arrange high-quality training to staff in the hub.
• Lead and support the development of quality and professional implementation guidelines, ways of working in line with each specific context.
• Experience in the design, drawing, BoQs, Boc’s setting and monitoring. for smooth implementation of PHE activities at field level.
• Support, develop and contribute to PHE proposals, innovations, and donor reports that are of high quality and in accordance with Oxfam and donor requirements.
• Ensure proper learning and feedback mechanisms. Incorporate best practices in projects and guide PHE team on sharing strategies, procedures, successes, and lessons learned.
• Work closely with country WASH team and other teams e.g. EFSVL, Gender, Protection, MEAL etc to ensure that WASH approaches are appropriately integrated and of desired quality.
• PHE TL will lead a team of PHE Officers and manage their day-to-day quality activity planning and implementation in large scale. Lead his/her team through performance objective setting and carry out performance reviews when needed.
• Act as Focal point to participate and represent Oxfam in sub-WASH cluster coordination including liaison among relevant sector actors including government line departments working in the respective hub to build effective relationships when needed in each governorate.
• Ensure that interventions strive to conform to relevant government policies, the OCS, WASH & EFSVL country strategies, SPHERE standards, and adhere to OI guidelines and protocols as noted above.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the line manager including flexible scheduling across governorate.
TEAM PURPOSE: To deliver quality WASH interventions to reduce WASH-related diseases and improve quality of life.
JOB PURPOSE: To support Oxfam’s earthquake response in close coordination with line and technical managers in the implementation of the emergency WASH activities to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable population affected by the earthquake in Northern hub of Syria. This includes supporting the development and guidance of PHE team members, to support PHE Officers in their responsibilities in planning and delivering quality Public Health Engineering activities through: data gathering and management, public health engineering risks and needs assessment, implementation, capacity building to staff capacity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management):
• To lead and provide professional, strategic, and technical support to the PHE team in respective governorates to be able to scale up, assess, design, implement public health humanitarian program activities.
• Foster and cultivate balanced coordination between Public Health Engineering and Public Health Promotion teams for effective and sustainable implementation of WASH projects in strong coordination and collaboration with WASH TL.
• Identify and Lead capacity building efforts of the Oxfam WASH PHE team staff, partners where applicable, and other stakeholders and build their capacities to develop stronger WASH team in respective hubs, including CE among other approaches, play a coaching role to Oxfam WASH PHE team on Engineering complexity issues and provide/ arrange high-quality training to staff in the hub.
• Lead and support the development of quality and professional implementation guidelines, ways of working in line with each specific context.
• Experience in the design, drawing, BoQs, Boc’s setting and monitoring. for smooth implementation of PHE activities at field level.
• Support, develop and contribute to PHE proposals, innovations, and donor reports that are of high quality and in accordance with Oxfam and donor requirements.
• Ensure proper learning and feedback mechanisms. Incorporate best practices in projects and guide PHE team on sharing strategies, procedures, successes, and lessons learned.
• Work closely with country WASH team and other teams e.g. EFSVL, Gender, Protection, MEAL etc to ensure that WASH approaches are appropriately integrated and of desired quality.
• PHE TL will lead a team of PHE Officers and manage their day-to-day quality activity planning and implementation in large scale. Lead his/her team through performance objective setting and carry out performance reviews when needed.
• Act as Focal point to participate and represent Oxfam in sub-WASH cluster coordination including liaison among relevant sector actors including government line departments working in the respective hub to build effective relationships when needed in each governorate.
• Ensure that interventions strive to conform to relevant government policies, the OCS, WASH & EFSVL country strategies, SPHERE standards, and adhere to OI guidelines and protocols as noted above.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the line manager including flexible scheduling across governorate.
Qualifications
ESSENTIAL
• Self-Awareness
• Listening
• Relationship building
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Influencing
In addition:
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in (Mechanical, Civil, Electric, Architecture Engineering)
• Master's degree holder Minimum of 5 years, or bachelor’s degree holder 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience working in INGOs and NGOs or UN agencies as humanitarian organizations is essential.
• Capacity to train Site Engineers in different engineering practices.
• Experience of project management and software like MS Project and in (Auto-CAD, Archi-CAD, Google Earth, and water modelling software, and proven experience in leading technical teams, with a strong track record in capacity building coaching and mentoring.
• Knowledge of latrine designs, Solid Waste management and other sanitation infrastructure to complement PHP efforts.
• Experience in preparation of different reports for stakeholders, highlighting achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Proven experience in managing relationships with local authorities, Partners, different Ministries, and other Government Departments, NGOs, and local communities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess PHE needs and develop effective interventions.
• Strong understanding of project cycle management and budget management and donor requirements.
• Proficiency in English and Arabic.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, building capacity, motivate a diverse team, ensuring effective performance management and fostering a collaborative working environment.
• Ability to travel up to 75% monthly basis or when required, Roving Latakia and Hama 25% time for each governorate
• Proactive problem-solving and anticipation or risks and field challenges.
• A mature understanding of relevant issues derived from at least five years of WASH field
• Strong understanding of Community Engagement and soft WASH approaches, with the ability to ensure technical and social interventions are integrated
• experience in coordinating with internal departments (e.g. MEAL, Logistics, PHP, EFSVL)
• Experience in designing/ supervise, and evaluate PHE interventions, including engineering assessments BoQs, and water/Sanitation system designs.
Desirable
• Experience with innovative monitoring tools like real-time data dashboards.
• Proven experience working in integrated WASH programs alongside protection, or livelihoods sectors.
• Self-Awareness
• Listening
• Relationship building
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Influencing
In addition:
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in (Mechanical, Civil, Electric, Architecture Engineering)
• Master's degree holder Minimum of 5 years, or bachelor’s degree holder 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience working in INGOs and NGOs or UN agencies as humanitarian organizations is essential.
• Capacity to train Site Engineers in different engineering practices.
• Experience of project management and software like MS Project and in (Auto-CAD, Archi-CAD, Google Earth, and water modelling software, and proven experience in leading technical teams, with a strong track record in capacity building coaching and mentoring.
• Knowledge of latrine designs, Solid Waste management and other sanitation infrastructure to complement PHP efforts.
• Experience in preparation of different reports for stakeholders, highlighting achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Proven experience in managing relationships with local authorities, Partners, different Ministries, and other Government Departments, NGOs, and local communities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess PHE needs and develop effective interventions.
• Strong understanding of project cycle management and budget management and donor requirements.
• Proficiency in English and Arabic.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, building capacity, motivate a diverse team, ensuring effective performance management and fostering a collaborative working environment.
• Ability to travel up to 75% monthly basis or when required, Roving Latakia and Hama 25% time for each governorate
• Proactive problem-solving and anticipation or risks and field challenges.
• A mature understanding of relevant issues derived from at least five years of WASH field
• Strong understanding of Community Engagement and soft WASH approaches, with the ability to ensure technical and social interventions are integrated
• experience in coordinating with internal departments (e.g. MEAL, Logistics, PHP, EFSVL)
• Experience in designing/ supervise, and evaluate PHE interventions, including engineering assessments BoQs, and water/Sanitation system designs.
Desirable
• Experience with innovative monitoring tools like real-time data dashboards.
• Proven experience working in integrated WASH programs alongside protection, or livelihoods sectors.
Salary and Benefits
As Per Oxfam Salary Scale
About us
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in more than 90 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
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Posted On
Jul 09, 2025
Expiry Date
Jul 24, 2025
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