Save the Children - US
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Summary
The Global Humanitarian WASH Advisor will be part of the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) funded PRO-WASH & SCALE activity, primed by Save the Children.
PRO-WASH & SCALE aims to strengthen the design, coordination, implementation, and overall effectiveness of key sector-specific interventions across BHA’s food and nutrition security portfolio in emergency, early recovery, risk reduction, and resilience (ER4) activities. The Award’s technical intervention areas include WASH, agriculture, livelihoods, markets, infrastructure, natural and water resource management, climate change, and disaster risk reduction.
The Advisor will implement Humanitarian WASH capacity strengthening, learning, knowledge management, and localization activities in collaboration with partners around the globe.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Technical Guidance and Support (50%)
Capacity Strengthening and Technical Support
- Provide remote and in-person technical support, training, and/or coaching to partners, including to members of national and international Clusters and working groups
- Provide technical assistance on a range of humanitarian WASH topics including to support rapid assessments, evaluations and program quality
- Assess learner needs, establish learning objectives, identify, adapt, create materials tailored to the context and learning needs of participants.
- Deliver capacity strengthening activities, and provide follow-up support to the learners through one-on-one support and/or refreshers to troubleshoot any challenges
- Contribute to the design, adaptation, development, pilot testing, and/or delivery of core training and technical resources including on:
- Emergency drinking water quality
- WASH Infrastructure and O&M in Emergencies
- Climate change & Humanitarian WASH
- WASH across the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus
- WASH Systems Strengthening in Fragile Contexts
Knowledge Management, Learning, and Innovation (35%)
Knowledge management
- Actively monitor new developments, approaches, innovations, and evidence within the humanitarian WASH sector to share with partners through emails, newsletters, and the FSN Network website
- Identify and link practitioners to learning, and capacity strengthening opportunities conducted by other organizations (e.g., academic institutions, research bodies, and other international agencies).
- Provide support to partners and Working Groups on knowledge management activities including conducting reviews of existing research, learning, and training resources. Such support includes working with partners to define search strategies, objectives, analyze data, identify key findings, organize and tag resources, present findings and develop accessible knowledge products
- Organize knowledge sharing events in collaboration with stakeholders on key topics of interest
Learning
- Facilitate peer-to-peer learning through cross-site visits, webinars, WhatsApp groups etc.
- Support partners in documenting learning, including designing methodologies and data tools, analyzing and interpreting data, and writing up learning briefs, organizing webinars, or other knowledge dissemination modalities (stories, social media, videos etc.)
- Identify and amplify local and regional learning platforms to support sustainable peer to peer learning
Coordination/Project management (15%)
Coordination
- Identify and build partnerships and/or networks with external agencies and organizations including multilaterals, NGOs, and contractors to share and promote humanitarian WASH research, learning, and innovation, and pursue opportunities to disseminate developed tools, with a special focus on local partners.
- Establish and strengthen linkages and networks with leading institutions, academic institutions, and other organizations working on humanitarian WASH, particularly in countries where there is USAID/BHA programming to establish formal or informal partnerships
Project Management
- Work with colleagues to ensure logistics and communication preparations for events/activities.
- Contribute to routine activities including reporting, program monitoring, team meetings, and team internal knowledge sharing and coordination.
- Provide regular activity updates using Monday.com (project management software)
- Provide technical reviews of translated WASH products (French/English)
Required Qualifications
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience, with at least 5 years of relevant experience
- Francophone or highly proficient in French; professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Previous experience providing remote support to a range of stakeholders at a regional or global level
- 3+ years of humanitarian WASH experience in diverse settings
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills
- Exceptional adult education, knowledge management, facilitation, learning and development and training skills, with experience designing curricula, tools and other learning/training materials for adult audiences.
- Experience with WASH coordination mechanisms and compliance with humanitarian principles and standards
- Ability to follow processes and manage multiple project deliverables at once
- International travel up to 20% time.
- Proficiency in MS Office suite.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in countries with USAID/BHA funded programs preferred
- Experience implementing WASH activities as part of multisectoral programming
- Instructional Design skills will be highly appreciated
- Additional language skills in Spanish, Arabic, or Portuguese
- Skills and experience on topics such as GIS, climate change, Market Based Programming, or Gender and Social Inclusion
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
- Geo 1 – NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
- Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
- Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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