WaterAid
Job purpose
The primary purpose of the Country Director (CD) is to provide leadership to the Country Programme (CP) and to contribute to the regional and global leadership of WaterAid. The CD achieves this by steering the direction of the CP, empowering, and developing staff and partners and influencing public and private institutions on the impact that improvements in safe water and improved sanitation and hygiene can make to the poorest and most excluded – therefore contributing to wider poverty reduction and human development.
1. Development, Implementation and Monitoring of Country Strategy and Associated
Programmes (50%)
- Development and implementation of the Country Strategy, based on Global Strategy
- Design and implementation of programmes and associated projects ensuring the adherence and alignment with WaterAid’s core approaches.
- Ensure continuous learning and knowledge management that supports the generation of evidence to improve programme design and inform advocacy
- Ensure local, national and global representation for advocacy and policy engagement
- Development of partnerships, engagement with external stakeholders and external communication activities in country to further strategic aims and maximize impact and sustainability
- Monitoring and measurement of strategic and programmatic indicators
2. Resource Mobilisation and Management (20%)
- Shared accountability for the mobilisation of funds through engagement with external donors and consortia partners, development of funding proposals and negotiation and management of contracts in collaboration with WA UK and other federation member fundraising teams
- Effective financial management, including development and monitoring of organisational budget and adherence to core financial assurance procedures
- Design and implement organisational structure and ways of working required for effective programme implementation.
- Recruit, engage and manage staff f in country in line with organisational policies and local employment laws. Develop talent for the future.
- Define CP support needs, timely request and manage the support through Shared Service Model and other appropriate mechanisms
3. Compliance and Quality Assurance (15%)
- Ensuring adherence to all internal processes relating to planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting (PMER)
- Ensuring adherence to programme quality standards as well as adaptation and implementation of programmatic approaches, frameworks, tools and guidelines agreed at organisational level
- Responsible for adherence to all other standard operating procedures in line with organisational policy in areas such as financial management, funding, procurement, security, safeguarding and human resource management
- Ensuring organisational compliance with donors and meeting national standards
4. Risk Management (10%)
- Development, monitoring and regular updating of country risk register, encompassing all significant internal and external risks
- Management and mitigation of associated risks, with particular attention paid to risks relating to organisational reputation, security of staff and partners as well as issues of safeguarding.
- Request and manage any required support for risk mitigation from wider organisation via Regional Team
5. Contribution to Global Initiatives and Support Services (5%)
- Use evidence and learning generated from programmes to contribute to global research, learning and influencing agendas.
- Provide support on areas where Country Programme has comparative advantage or has developed a specialist skillset to other Countries/Teams.
- Representation in and contribution to WA’s Global initiatives.
Person specification:
Essential
1) Master’s degree qualification in a relevant field (Development Studies, Environmental or Social Sciences, Climate Change, Public Health, Water Resources, Civil Engineering or any other field relevant to WASH.
2) Extensive proven experience of working at a senior level with strategic leadership, management, and financial accountabilities.
3) Track record of leading and managing diverse & multi-disciplinary professional teams (preferably WASH sector).
4) Proven leadership and empowering management style building trust and diverse inspiring high performance.
5) Ability to develop and implement long term strategic country plans, translate into time bound operational plans.
6) Track record of developing strategic and operational partnerships with national and international NGOs, leading, or working as a member in a consortium, and government authorities for programme, policy and advocacy interventions.
7) Successful engagement with national governments, bilateral and multi-lateral agencies on policy influencing with a track record of successful advocacy.
8) Proven record of raising funds from government and/or international agencies (bilateral/multilateral), managing large budgets with diverse international donor base.
- A sound understanding of international development (policy and programme), especially around WASH in developing countries.
10) A strong commitment to equity and inclusion, diversity, and pro-poor development.
11) High compatibility to WaterAid Global Code of Conduct and ways of working.
12) Ability to plan own work, setting priorities and completing it under pressure or when faced with competing demands.
13) Demonstrating resilience and adaptability in personal leadership style.
Desirable:
1) Track record of leading a country office in an international development organisation.
2) Demonstrated expertise or familiar with the national sector actors on Climate Change and/or Public Health.
3) Proven experience in managing organisational growth and change and institutional development especially within the development sector.
4) Experience of leading on participatory monitoring and impact assessment missions.
5) Significant experience of WASH in communities in urban and rural settings.
6) A good understanding of participative hygiene promotion approaches and methodologies.
7) Ability to communicate clearly in a relevant local language.
8) Understanding and managing relationship with the relevant Government offices related to operations of INGO.
9) Experience of working in Pakistan will be strongly preferred.
More details regarding the role can be found in the link below:
How to apply
Interested candidates should send their letter of motivation along with an updated CV to:
[email protected] by November 15, 2023
Kindly be informed that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.