Programme Manager (PM) Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), WASH – Integrated Ebola Response Driven Communities (IERDC)

Location: Bunia, Ituri Province

Position Status: Full-time

Risk Level:     x☐ Level 3       ☐Level 2         ☐Level 1 

(Level 3: Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability.  

Level 2: Some contact with participants; unplanned non-direct contact with children.  

Level 1: Likely to have no contact with participants or sensitive data) 

ABOUT MERCY CORPS

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization, driven by the belief that a better world is possible. In disasters, in hardships, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to bring bold solutions into action – helping people overcome adversity and build stronger communities from within. Today and for the future.

Mercy Corps has been operational in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since August 2007 with a current workforce of approximately 300 national and expatriate employees. As a leading NGO in the DRC working with several local and international partners in 2025, Mercy Corps has reached more than half a million people in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Kasai with integrated programmes ensuring equitable access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in humanitarian and development contexts; economic development and livelihoods to strengthen food security and resilience; as well as institutional capacity-building and social cohesion to foster peace and good governance.

EMERGENCY EBOLA RESPONSE TEAM SUMMARY 

Mercy Corps is delivering a timely, appropriate, and high-quality response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), grounded in a holistic, community-centered approach. A significant part of this response is delivered through the Integrated Ebola Response Driven by Communities (IERDC) consortium, led by Mercy Corps in partnership with local and international organizations. This consortium approach combines complementary technical expertise and extends the response's reach across affected health zones.  Mercy Corps' Ebola response is organized around the following integrated, mutually reinforcing focus areas that are all vital to stopping the Ebola outbreak and mitigating its secondary effects: 

•  Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Community Surveillance: builds community trust, counters rumors and misinformation, and strengthens community-based prevention and early reporting.
•  Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): strengthens IPC/WASH infrastructure and hygiene promotion in health facilities and communities.
•  Continuity of Services and Livelihoods: sustains access to essential services, livelihoods, functioning markets, and food security for vulnerable households through cash assistance and other targeted support.
•  Safeguarding, protection, conflict-sensitivity, conflict analysis and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI): ensure the response is safe, inclusive, and does no harm in line with Mercy Corps' humanitarian principles and locally-led commitment.

In line with Mercy Corps' humanitarian principles and commitment to local partnerships, the team ensures that interventions are delivered at scale, with impact, and in close coordination with the DRC MoH, Ebola response working groups and coordination pillars, communities, other community and international partners, and the broader humanitarian coordination system.

THE POSITION

The IPC/WASH Program Manager leads the day-to-day planning, implementation, and quality delivery of Mercy Corps' Ebola-related WASH and IPC programming in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The IPC/WASH Program Manager works in tandem with the WASH Infrastructure Technical Advisor to translate technical standards and guidance into practical work plans, conduct site supervision, and frontline delivery of IPC/WASH infrastructure and hygiene promo