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Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

WASH/NFI Officer: Emergency Response

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePuerto Cabello, Carabobo, VenezuelaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university-level professional qualification in Engineering, WASH, Risk Management, or a related career, together with experience working with people with disabilities.
  • At least two years of verifiable experience implementing and monitoring humanitarian or early-recovery projects.
  • Verifiable prior fieldwork experience with an NGO or cooperation agency.
  • Verifiable experience supervising, supporting, and coordinating community agents or non-specialized personnel.
  • Experience implementing activities in the NFI/WASH sector.
  • Solid knowledge of differentiated service models and mainstreaming inclusive approaches for people with disabilities and populations of diverse gender and age.
  • Experience with WASH accessibility adaptations.
  • Fluent Spanish, with excellent writing skills for technical and clinical reports.
  • Ability to identify protection risks and apply the Do No Harm approach during implementation and distributions.
  • Ability to identify local dynamics and adapt activities to prevent tensions or unintended exclusion.
  • Ability to promote the participation and safe access of people with disabilities, older people, women, children, and other vulnerable groups.
  • Cooperation and assertive communication skills for interacting and negotiating with local authorities and communities.
  • Ability to adapt tools to community-based approaches.
  • Ability to synthesize and systematize qualitative information and prioritize operational and clinical data.
  • Proficiency with office software and field data-collection platforms.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently in emergency contexts.
  • Ability to comply rigorously with ethical protocols, informed consent, and confidential data management, including protecting sensitive information and preventing increased safety risks for survivors.
  • Autonomy, responsibility, and results orientation in fieldwork.
  • Ability to accompany and guide community promoters, volunteers, and support staff.
  • Ability to apply self-care and emotional-support strategies and manage stress when working with survivors of critical events.
  • Ability to maintain empathy, active listening, and patience.
  • Ability to manage frustration, recognize professional and emotional limits, escalate uncertainties, and seek timely supervision.
  • Commitment to inclusion, dignity, participation, and the Do No Harm principle.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and monitor project activities according to the plan established by the Project Manager or supervisor.
  • Coordinate identification, targeting, and delivery of inclusive NFI kits and complementary supplies to affected households, including households with people with disabilities, older people, and others with specific needs.
  • Apply vulnerability criteria and inclusive identification mechanisms, including the Washington Group Short Set questions, to allocate assistance.
  • Manage distribution of adapted family kits and complementary kits with supplies tailored to identified functional limitations.
  • Ensure deliveries use accessible and inclusive modalities.
  • Coordinate accessibility adaptations in WASH.
  • Identify operational challenges and propose improvements to achieve planned activities and targets.
  • Track activity progress, schedules, and project indicators.
  • Properly file and safeguard verification materials and program documentation.
  • Adapt activities and operational priorities to contextual changes and project guidance.
  • Support other general humanitarian response activities when required to ensure an integrated and timely intervention.
  • Participate in rapid needs assessments and information gathering in affected communities.
  • Support analysis of community capacities, coping mechanisms, and local resources that can contribute to response and recovery.
  • Contribute to updating context analysis and identifying emerging risks and priorities.
  • Support the definition and application of participant prioritization and targeting criteria.
  • Participate in rapid deployments, assessments, and humanitarian-response activities according to operational needs.
  • Facilitate coordination among communities, organizations of persons with disabilities, implementing partners, and internal project teams.
  • Participate in community meetings, coordination forums, and mobilization activities as required.
  • Help prevent duplication and promote complementarity with other humanitarian actors.
  • Provide operational support to community promoters, volunteers, and support personnel.
  • Support awareness-raising, training, and community-capacity-building activities related to hygiene, appropriate use of distributed items, and emergency preparedness.
  • Identify capacity-building needs and submit recommendations to project management.
  • Support or implement emergency preparedness measures in the programs and adapt working methods during an emergency to contribute to an effective humanitarian response.

Desired Qualifications

  • Complementary training in humanitarian management, disaster-risk management, or emergency response.
  • English knowledge at B1 level.

About the Company

Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Handicap International, also known as Humanity & Inclusion, is an international non-profit organization focused on disability. It works with people with disabilities in diverse settings—from conflict zones to development contexts—to improve their access to essential services, rehabilitation, livelihoods, and inclusion. The organisation delivers aid and support through programmes in about 60 countries and responds to emergencies, helping people become self-reliant. It operates through a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) that provide funding, resources, and project management. Unlike some aid groups, it is non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit, centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to strengthen their independence and resilience in all contexts.

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